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Several thousand university students and supporters took part in a protest in central Athens Thursday to oppose plans by Greece's conservative government to allow privately run universities.

Victoria Hislop first visited Greece with her mother and sister in 1976, at the age of 17. They spent a week in Athens and then another on the island of Paros. "We had the opportunity to get a taste of the diversity of Greece. On the one hand, the heat and dust of Athens, the wonderful confusion of traffic, people, noise and great monuments.

An incendiary device damaged the entrance of a bank branch in the district of Petralona, central Athens overnight. 

The home-made device, which exploded at 3.30 a.m. on Trion Ierarchon Street, also damaged a car parked nearby, but no injuries were reported.

The police is investigating the incident.

Innovation Greece 5.0, the conference on innovation in the country and on the entities supporting it, will be held on Friday and Saturday at EKEFE Democritus (27 Neapoleos, Agia Paraskevi, Athens) from 11 a.m.

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The Municipality of Athens is set to create an Energy Poverty Office, prioritizing the protection of vulnerable citizens, as was proposed and approved during Wednesday's council meeting.

Teachers at Greece's public schools on Tuesday announced another walkout as part of ongoing actions against the government's planned educational reforms.

The three-hour work stoppage, organized by the Greek Federation of Secondary Education State School Teachers (OLME) will take place on Thursday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Under the title "A Tale of Two Cities," Athens and Santiago join forces in a program showcasing films from Greece in Chile and vice versa. This collaborative effort between the KINO Athens film society and Centro de Cine y Creacion (CCC) from Santiago kicks off with simultaneous screenings in Chile and Greece from January 24.

One of the big open questions about the future of Athens is whether and to what extent the disjointed investment plans in the city center will succeed. And to what extent their added value will contribute to the sought-after improvement of the urban environment.

Climate change is effectively reducing the year's seasons to two, according to the head of the Greek Meteorological Society.

"We have observed the expansion of summer into the fall, while winter - especially the winter of 2023 - is showing higher temperatures, mainly because of climate change," Panagiotis Nastos told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

The Commercial Triangle of Athens is defined as the central area of the Municipality of Athens, flanked by Stadiou, Mitropoleos and Athinas streets, with the vertices of the imaginary "triangle" being Syntagma, Monastiraki and Omonia squares. In addition, it includes the squares of Klathmonos and Kolokotronis on Stadiou, as well as Kotzias Square on Athinas.