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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.

Manolo Jimenez, the Spanish coach who led AEK to its first league title in 24 years last summer, is back at the helm of the Athens club for a third time.

The funeral of Dimitris Sioufas, a former New Democracy minister and Parliament speaker, is to be held at the First Cemetery of Athens on Monday.

Sioufas's family asked that the funeral's expenses not be covered by the state, the Interior Ministry said.

Dimitris Sioufas, a former New Democracy minister and Parliament speaker from 2007 to 2009  died on Friday. He was 75.

Greek authorities are investigating the death of a 24-year-old man from Cameroon who was taken to a hospital from a sprawling refugee camp on the island of Lesvos.

Migration Minister Dimitris Vitsas said the cause of the man's death hasn't been established yet. He died after being transported from the Moria camp before dawn Tuesday.

Greece will receive the lion's share of the additional 305 million euros in emergency assistance granted by the European Commission to deal with the migration crisis.

According to the Commission, Greece will receive 289 million euros, while Italy, Cyprus and Croatia will get 5.3, 3.1 and 6.8 million euros respectively.

"If I had said no to this offer, I would not have been able to tolerate myself in my death bed," choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou told journalists during a press conference at the Onassis Cultural Centre (OCC) shortly before the premiere of his new work "New Piece I - Since she."

The Tatoi Friends Association is holding is sixth annual opera gala, raising funds for conservation work at the former royal estate north of Athens. The main destination of funds from this year's event will go toward the restoration of the estate's dilapidated winery, which is one of the oldest buildings on the property.