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A documentary on Turkey's first armed drone was released on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr.

The feature, titled AKINCI after the model's name, documents the development of the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) and was posted on the YouTube channel of arms maker Baykar Technologies on May 24.

As temperatures are expected to hit and even exceed 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country this weekend, a National Observatory of Athens (NOA) scientist said Greece may be in for the hottest May heatwave in at least 50 years.

A population and housing census test will be conducted by the NSI in the spring. This is recorded in the National Statistical Program for 2020, adopted today by the Council of Ministers.

The survey precedes the actual census, which will be conducted across the European Union in 2021.

Turkey's day-ahead spot electricity market's trade volume increased year-on-year by 17.17 percent in 2019, according to data provided by Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) on Jan. 6.

The trade volume in the day-ahead spot electricity market, which EXIST has operated since 2015, registered at 40.85 billion Turkish liras in 2019 compared to 34.86 billion liras in 2018.

This year's October is the warmest in the world since the Copernicus European Climate Change Service began its observations in 1981, France's press office reported.
This is the 5th consecutive month that is breaking or approaching record highs.

Clocks in Greece should be set back an hour at 4 a.m. on Saturday to 3 a.m. as Daylight Saving Time ends.
The next time clocks will change will be on the last Sunday of March 2020, when official summer time will begin.

The unseasonably warm weather is to set to change from Thursday, with a cold front forecast to sweep into the country from the north, bringing lower temperatures, rainfall and strong winds, with storms in parts of the country.

Almost nine out of 10 households have internet access in 2019, a Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) survey showed on Aug. 27.    

Days after Greek MPs scrapped regulations that made universities a no-go zone for police, an upcoming survey has found that campus safety is the primary concern among students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh).

A bather takes a shower at Alimos beach near Athens, as the temperatures reached 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday. Greece's Civil Protection Authority has issued weather warnings for the weekend when temperatures are expected to reach 42 degrees Celsius (107.5 degrees Fahrenheit) in central Greece. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]