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Cyprus' health ministry says the country's former president Dimitris Christofias is in a critical condition in hospital with respiratory problems.
In a statement Monday, the ministry said Christofias was admitted to Nicosia General Hospital's transplantation unit on Saturday.

In a statement issued a day after anarchists defaced his Athens residence to express solidarity with jailed November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt described the attack as "vandalism" and the hitman as a "murderer" while expressing gratitude for the response of the Greek government.

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt has expressed his confidence that Greek police will investigate an early Wednesday vandal attack by self-styled anarchists on his residence in Athens.

Police in Athens were placed on high alert on Tuesday following plans by anarchist and anti-establishment groups for an evening march in support of hunger-striking terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.

New arrival the Roma Gallery presents a show of work by two of Greece's most well-known artists, Alekos Fassianos (b.

The chief of the Anti-Corruption General Secretariat, Anastasia Xepapadea, has denied one more allegation of many over the last days - that she has a seat on the Board of a family business which may constitute a conflict of interest.

New Democracy has called on the government to fire her.

The Greek government continued to appear divided on Wednesday over the matter of whether to pay a one-off benefit to civil servants and public sector pensioners, amid pressure from both its supporters ahead of elections and the country's creditors.

SYRIZA incumbents have announced their first batch of candidates ahead of European Parliament elections in May.
Apart from current MEPs Dimitris Papadimoulis, Konstantina Kouneva and Stelios Kouloglou, the list features another 13 names, including academics

Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos will make official statements at 13.30 p.m., state-run news agency ANA-MPA said on Friday.

The announcement is expected to be a mini government reshuffle to fill up deputy ministerial posts. 

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou is expected to appoint an investigating magistrate in the coming days to probe a criminal racket believed to be operating in Athens's maximum-security Korydallos Prison.