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Police on Monday were seeking the perpetrators behind a smash-and-grab in the Athens suburn of Aghios Dimitrios in the early hours of the morning, the latest in a string of such incidents.

The City of Athens, among other municipalities in many parts of Greece, will be opening eight air-conditioned community centers in different parts of the capital to the general public in response to a heat wave warning.

Timing could not be more perfect for Nicosia Mall, as it opens its doors Wednesday morning, just two days before Black Friday and a month before Christmas holidays.

The trial of the 55-year-old woman accused of inflicting bodily harm to babies and resisting arrest will take place this coming Wednesday, an Athens court ruled on Friday.

The woman had been arrested for allegedly scratching babies with her nails or a sharp object on a number of occasions at a mall in Aghios Dimitrios, southern Athens.

Employees of the Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) on Tuesday gave out 8,000 electronic tickets for free to commuters at seven of the capital's busiest metro stations in a campaign aimed at raising awareness about the e-cards among the Greek public.

The remote island of Agios Efstratios is to be heated by renewable energy sources generated by the Aeolian and photo-voltaic systems that will be installed soon, an Athens Macedonia news agency report says.

Three Turkish military aircraft - two armed fighter jets and a CN-235 - violated Greek air space in the northeastern, central and southeastern Aegean on two occasions on Thursday.

The transgressions came just a few hours after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras flew in a Greek F-16 fighter jet following a visit to the 110th combat wing of the Hellenic Air Force in Larissa, central Greece.

The Metropolitan Church of Santorini on Saturday said that it had not agreed to the "disgraceful" use of a church interior as the backdrop for a music video by a popular American rapper and has launched an inquiry into the incident.

Police found a body in an advanced state of decomposition on Tuesday at a home in the village of Ayios Dimitrios on the Ionian island of Zakynthos.

Authorities were notified by neighbors who broke into the house due to the intense smell of the decomposed body of 55-year-old Bulgarian national. 

The Yakamoz trio perform a tribute to the rhythms of Asia Minor and the eastern Aegean with songs in Greek and Turkish. Sounds familiar to both Greeks and Turks of the region, torn by war and division nearly 100 years ago, are married again in this bilingual celebration of shared musical heritage.