Administrative regions of Greece

Tango Acropolis, a nonprofit organization promoting the dance style in Athens, is set to host its second nine-hour tango class marathon at the Serafeio Athletic & Community Complex next to the PAO Rouf soccer stadium in downtown Athens on Saturday, January 25.

The Patari Project physical theater company presents its rendition of Vivaldi's timeless "Four Seasons," a musical performance aimed at children and young audiences, on the Greek National Opera's Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in southern Athens.

Until a highly anticipated tender for the purchase of new buses to replace the aging fleets in Athens and Thessaloniki is completed in 18 months' time, Transport Minister Kostas A. Karamanlis is not ruling out the prospect of transport authorities leasing vehicles to serve the public in the meantime.

A teenager from Afghanistan was in serious condition on Monday after being stabbed inside the migrant identification center of Moria in Lesvos.

According to initial information, the 17-year-old was stabbed in the chest and abdomen by a 20-year-old fellow Afghani. The victim is being treated in the hospital of Mytilene, while the suspect was arrested.

Police on Monday were probing a series of overnight arson attacks in different parts of Attica.

The perpetrators targeted a car dealership, vehicles, a bank ATM and a cafe, causing damage but no injuries. 

In the context of the City of Athens' "Christmas in Athens" series of events, the play written by French actress and singer Nathalie Lermitte recounting the Little Sparrow's life comes to the Galatsi Olympic Hall on Saturday, January 25.

Police on Friday arrested a 27-year-old foreign national in connection with the deadly stabbing of a 20-year-old Yemeni migrant during an altercation at the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Thursday night. 
The suspect is said to have stabbed the victim in several parts of his body and then fled the scene.

In 2019, 86 440 babies were born in Greece and 119 446 people died, which is why the population of our southern neighbour decreased by 33 006 and numbered 10 724 599, according to ANA-MPA.

The media quoted the National Statistics Service of Athens.

The ministries of National Defense and Citizen Protection on Monday signed a memorandum of cooperation towards finalizing the move of Athens' largest jail complex at Korydallos district to an old NATO base in the region of Aspropyrgos, western Attica.

The Finance Ministry is proceeding with the introduction of another 3,000 areas to the system that determines property rates used for tax purposes - known as "objective values." As a result, property owners in those areas are most likely going to see their Single Property Tax (ENFIA) dues jump this year.