Athens

The lights decorating a Christmas tree on Syntagma Square in central Athens were switched on Tuesday night by Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis. [ANA-MPA]

The Benaki Museum presents a collection of snapshots of life and sites in Athens and its environs taken by British photographer Alexander Lamont Henderson during a visit to the Greek capital in 1904.

Police detained 13 members of the anti-establishment Rouvikonas group on Monday after they threw fliers outside the Embassy of Hungary on Vassileos Constantinou Avenue in central Athens. The incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m.

The Numismatic Museum pays tribute to Jurij Subic, the Slovenian painter invited to do the murals and ceiling paintings of the Ilion Melathron by Ernst Ziller, who had designed the mansion, and German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who was to live there, in December 1879.

An engine failure on a train serving the Athens suburban railway (Proastiakos) route on Monday was expected to result in cancellations and delays.

The problem occurred at around 9 a.m. on a train en route to Athens International Airport from Piraeus, leading to the train being stopped at Koropi. 

Trainose said that engineers were working on restoring services. 

In the latest incident in a Greek university campus, unknown persons caused extensive damage at the Athens University campus at the eastern suburb of Zografou on Saturday and hit with a knife a guard who tried to stop them. The guard was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries

Municipal authorities in Athens have announced measures to protect homeless people and other vulnerable groups in the Greek capital from the cold weather as temperatures drop.

Municipal teams will be active in the city center seeking out homeless people to provide them with blankets, clothing and information about organized shelters.

Car importer Teoren Motors announced it will draw five new Renault Clio cars for the eastern Attica residents who had their vehicle burnt during the devastating wildfire at Mati and Neos Voutzas on July 23.

The wreck of a torched car is seen in Exarchia, downtown Athens, yesterday after riots on Thursday night that followed rallies marking the 10th anniversary of the police killing of Alexis Grigoropoulos, 15. More than 100 people were detained in the unrest that caused widespread damage. [Pantelis Saitas/ANA-MPA]

Two riot officers and at least one demonstrator were injured in overnight clashes self-styled anarchists in downtown Athens in the early hours of Friday.