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PM vows to accelerate reforms in meeting with cabinet

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday heralded new measures to deal with rising prices on supermarket shelves and with illegal construction at his first meeting with cabinet in the new year, following a mini-reshuffle last week, stressing the need to accelerate the government's reform agenda.

Positive end to the year for Greens and Reds

Panathinaikos and Olympiakos finished their year with relatively easy Euroleague wins, as the Greens defeated visiting Red Star Belgrade on Thursday and the Reds overcame lowly Alba in Berlin on Friday.

Panathinaikos played in front of a capacity crowd at the Olympic Sports Hall and won 82-65 for its 10th victory in 17 games.

New Athens mayor sworn into office, pledges ‘return to neighborhoods’

Incoming Athens mayor Haris Doukas signaled a grass-roots approach to his role by pledging a "return to the neighborhoods" of the Greek capital at the swearing-in of the new municipal council, held in a former public market in the downtown district of Kypseli on Thursday.

Focus on maintaining the markets’ interest in Greece

Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis on Thursday outlined the steps that Greece has taken to become an attractive destination for foreign investments, as well as those that are being planned in order to sustain its current momentum, while addressing a panel discussion at the 27th Annual Economist Government Roundtable in Athens on improving Greece's in

F-4 co-pilot laid to rest in Tripoli

The funeral was held in the southern town of Tripoli on Thursday of a Hellenic Air Force officer aboard the F-4E Phantom II jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea on Monday. The plane went down during a training exercise, and the body of the co-pilot, Lieutenant Marios Touroutsikas, 29, was discovered shortly after.

Antetokounmpo family donates 20,000 masks to Athens municipality, sports group

The family of Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo donated 20,000 surgical masks which will be equally divided between the municipality of Zografou in central Athens and the city's Organization of Culture, Sports and Youth (OPANDA) to help employees protect themselves against the new coronavirus.

Weapons cache seen as intended for terror hit

Counterterrorism officers discovered a secret 20-meter-long underground tunnel during a raid on a property in the Athens district of Sepolia on Thursday that contained heavy artillery, including anti-tank weapons, Kalashnikov rifles, pistols and hand grenades.

Police were investigating possible links to Turkish far-left terror group DHKP-C.

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