Ancient Greek geography

A traffic police officer wearing a protective mask checks the documents of a driver at the Elefsina toll station, 30 kilometers west of Athens.

A passenger ferry from Lesbos Island to the Piraeus port of Athens arrived in the early morning with 367 refugees and migrants, who will then be deployed by bus to reception centres across Greece, MIA reported.

Another 20 refugees and migrants are expected to arrive from Kos Island.

Police shut down central avenues in the Greek capital on Monday morning as a two-day visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping got underway.

The road closures concern Syntagma square, the Presidential Mansion and the area around the Acropolis Hill.

The Syntagma metro station will remain closed and trains will pass through without stopping.

Greece's competition watchdog confirmed on Friday that it had raided all the country's major banks a day earlier as part of an investigation into collaboration between lenders.
Inspectors raided the head offices of National, Piraeus, Alpha, Attica and Eurobank, along with the offices of the Greek bank association, bankers said on Thursday.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spent four days in Shanghai this week promoting Greece's exit from the crisis and attracting foreign investments. He met with China's political leadership and representatives of important Chinese firms and discussed cooperation between the two nations, which is expected to deepen further with the Chinese president's visit to Athens next week.

A ship bringing 75 migrants and refugees from the eastern Greek island of Lesvos to the port of Piraeus arrived on Wednesday morning.
After disembarking at Piraeus port, the migrants boarded buses en route to unspecified facilities on the Greek mainland.

Rounding off an official visit to China, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday expressed his government's intention to make the most of Beijing's intention to open up Chinese markets following talks with top Chinese entrepreneurs.

The Piraeus Port Authority said on Friday that it broke up a racket supplying migrants with forged travel documents.

Six suspected gang members were arrested, all foreign nationals.

Port authority officials made the six arrests after raiding two homes and a restaurant in Metaxourgeio, Patissia and Acharnes.

Piraeus Bank has concluded a deal with Sweden's Intrum to create a company to service its bad-loan portfolio, it said on Wednesday.
Bad loans are the biggest challenge facing Greek banks, the legacy of a crippling debt crisis which shrank the economy and sent hundreds of thousands into unemployment, constricting the ability to repay debt.

Bayern Munich players perform a drill during training at the Karaiskakis Stadium near Piraeus ahead of Tuesday's Champions League Group B soccer match against hosts Olympiakos. The German powerhouse comes into the match with six points in two games. The Piraeus side, at the bottom of the group, only has one point. [Reuters]