Athens-Macedonian News Agency

Greece is ready to play a leading role in the Eastern Mediterranean after emerging from the debt crisis, US Senator Robert Menendez has said, adding that opportunities to deepen security ties in the region "have never been more promising."

The Greek Police (ELAS) was carrying out an operation on the apparent request of the Migration Ministry to clear unauthorized guests and residents from a refugee camp in Athens' Elaionas district on Tuesday.

The parents of a 13-year-old student who died in a hit-and-run accident in the town of Preveza in northwestern Greece late Thursday afternoon, decided to donate his organs, state run news agency ANA-MPA reported on Friday.

An inmate of Trikala Prison in central Greece died on Friday, possibly as a result of a head injury sustained during a fight with a fellow convict.

The 66-year-old was dead by the time prison authorities could get him to hospital, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) reported, quoting local sources.

Dozens of migrants and refugees who had staged a sit-in protest at the Larissis Street train station in Athens and prevented rail services from being carried out departed by Friday evening.

Firemen on Monday pulled the body of a middle-aged man from the tracks of the urban railway at Neratziotissa station in northern Athens, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.
The report did not clarify how the man ended up there.
The man was transferred to a nearby hospital where doctors confirmed his death.

Members of the Communist Party-affiliated trade union PAME clashed with representatives of the GSEE umbrella union for private sector workers during a session of GSEE's management in Athens on Wednesday. [Simela Pantzartzi/ANA-MPA]

Greece's leftist administration is expected to table a measure on primary residence protection to succeed the so-called Katseli law on Friday on the basis of an agreement between the government and banks, government sources told state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency (ANA-MPA) on Wednesday.

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos will meet with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in the province of Antalya in southern Turkey on Thursday, state-run Athens-Macedonian news agency (ANA-MPA) reports.
The two ministers will discuss issues of bilateral, regional and international interest, ANA-MPA says.
Talks will be followed by a joint press conference.

A mother and her child plunged to their deaths from the fifth story of an apartment building in Neos Cosmos in Athens Tuesday.
According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), police were called to the scene by neighbors who said the mother first threw her child over the balcony before she jumped.
The identity of the woman and child were not immediately known.