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Policeman confesses to killing taxi driver in Kastoria

A 30-year-old police special guard who on Saturday confessed to the murder of a 52-year-old cab driver in the region of Lefki, in Kastoria, northern Greece, on Friday night was the man who shot and arrested Nikos Maziotis - a leading member of the Revolutionary Struggle urban terror group - during a shootout at Monastiraki in 2014.

Cavusoglu accuses Kammenos of making provocative comments

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has rebuffed Greek accusations that Ankara is escalating tensions in the Aegean, and attributed the recent friction to Athens, citing "provocative" comments by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, the leader of the junior coalition party, the Independent Greeks (ANEL).

Lucia di Lammermoor | Athens | March 13

Acclaimed opera singers and choirs of the City of Athens and state broadcaster ERT and the Athens State Orchestra will present Gaetano Donizetti's tragic opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" in concert form at the Athens Concert Hall on Monday, March 13. This bel canto jewel will be performed in the original Italian with Greek supertitles, and will be conducted by Loukas Karytinos.

ATHEX: Stocks finish week lower

Apart from the general air of uncertainty, little could be drawn from Friday's session at the Greek bourse as the benchmark barely budged and turnover dropped back below 30 million euros. The distance that remains between Athens and the country's creditors on a number of issues does not bode well for next week either.

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