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Greek land registry enters final phase
The final phase of Greece's much-anticipated land registry gets under way Monday, representing 63 percent of the country's expanse, the company carrying out this monumental project, the National Cadastre & Mapping Agency, has announced.
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Eleven arrested for smuggling, dealing illegal steroids
A police operation on Monday led to the arrest of 11 Greeks - 10 men and a woman - believed to be members of an international criminal racket dealing in anabolic steroids in Greece and other countries.
Working together, officers of the Greek Police (ELAS) and the Financial Police conducted simultaneous raids in Attica, Crete and Epirus.
Draw in Thessaloniki derby for the Cup, as Reds win
The group stage of the Greek Cup started this week with little in the way of upsets and the biggest result arguably belonging to PAS Giannina.
The team from Epirus downed high-flying Atromitos 2-1 at Peristeri on Tuesday in an eventful game, and has all but qualified to the last 16 of the tournament.
BIKH's fate appears all but sealed
Cold cuts producer BIKH is staring at the prospect that any assets it has been left with might be confiscated, while its 191 employees are joining the unemployment queues. On Wednesday BIKH's owners withdrew their application for bankruptcy, tabled in May, with which they had secured temporary protection from creditors until Friday, when the case is due to be heard.
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Police seize 246 kg of cannabis in Epirus
Authorities in Epirus, northwestern Greece, seized 246 kilograms of cannabis in two police operations on Friday and Saturday.
Police arrested a 52-year-old woman on Saturday after finding 102 kg of the drug in her car in the region of Komboti in Arta.
On Friday, police confiscated 144 kg of cannabis found in an abandoned car in the region of Nea Selefkia in Thesprotia.
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Storms, gale-force winds to sweep into northwest Greece, spreading east
Strong showers and thunderstorms are expected to sweep into northern and northwestern Greece on Saturday, coupled with gale-force winds and possible hailstorms, the national weather service warned on Friday.
Weather to take a turn for the worse again this week
The General Secretariat for Civil Protection on Monday issued a warning about a front of bad weather that is forecast to hit large swaths of the country this week.
The turn in the weather is to include heavy rainfall, strong winds and hailstorms in some parts.
UNHCR: Greece hosting 58,000 refugees and migrants in early June
The number of refugees, asylum seekers and people with no citizenship in Greece totaled 58,000 in early June, according to figures released by the Greek chapter of the UNHCR on Wednesday, World Refugee Day.
Anarchist group hits second time in a day, targeting professor's office
In the second initiative in one day, members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas barged into the Athens office of Dimitris Kaliambakos, a professor at the National Technical University of Athens.
In a statement posted on an anarchist website, the group expressed its opposition to oil exploration in Epirus, a subject on which Kaliambakos has spoken on extensively in public.
Rain forecast until midweek
The National Meteorological Service (EMY) on Friday issued a warning that the weather will take a turn for the worse in many parts of Greece over the weekend, with rain, storms and strong winds forecast for much of the country.
On Saturday, the unsettled weather is expected to affect the western mainland, Thessaly, Macedonia and Epirus, moving to the Aegean over the weekend.
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