Athens-Macedonian News Agency

A 21-year-old man was killed on Wednesday when a wall collapsed and crushed him during the demolition of a building on the island of Samothraki.

Members of the local fire service were dispatched to the scene following the incident and recovered the man's unconscious body from the rubble.

A professor who worked at the Technical College (TEI) of Serres and a suspected accomplice who owns a private cramming school in the same city in northern Greece were jailed pending trial on charges of bribery and blackmail on Friday.

For the third time since the refugee crisis erupted in 2015, Greece's reception and identification service is leaderless after Migration Minister Dimitris Vitsas Thursday heralded the dismissal of the current director.

The European Commission on Friday denied a report in the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) that claimed Greece's lenders had agreed to the non-implementation of pension cuts slated for January as they believe the country's social security system has become viable. 

The opposition New Democracy party on Friday issued a statement refuting a report by the state-run ANA-MPA news agency saying that European Commission sources had suggested that planned pension cuts would be scrapped and that Greek political parties had been briefed of this development.

Greece's creditors have found that the country's social security system has reached sustainable levels and planned pension cuts from next year will therefore not be necessary, reports have suggested.

The body of a woman, believed to be aged between 25 and 30, was recovered in the sea off the coast of Varkiza in southern Athens on Thursday, coast guard officials said.

Police on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes launched an investigation after 13 people were hospitalized early Tuesday with gunshot wounds sustained during a shootout outside a Roma camp, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported.

The International Monetary Fund is due to published its Article IV Report on the course of the Greek economy on Tuesday. This will include the much anticipated Debt Sustainability Analysis, which was carefully examined at a meeting last Friday, with the board confirming the medium-term sustainability of the Greek debt as well as the need for the government to remain committed to reforms.

"Greece has decided to send a message to the East and the West, toward all its friends and others, that regardless of who is violating the principles national sovereignty and respect toward us, measures will be taken," Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) on Sunday.