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A total of 17 Croatian nationals were apprehended across three different locations in Greece on Tuesday due to their alleged involvement in violent clashes between Greek and Croatian soccer supporters on Monday night, as reported by the Hellenic Police.

Seven Croatian nationals have been apprehended by the police at the Evzones border crossing. 

The suspects were allegedly attempting to exit Greece in the aftermath of the violent clashes between supporters of AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb soccer clubs on Monday which led to the death of a 29-year-old man.

Police reportedly discovered knives and bats inside their van.

Evzones of the Presidential Guard march past an open-air exhibition of portraits of heroes from the 1821 War of Independence, placed on the fence of the National Garden in Athens on Tuesday. The event is organized by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, the National History Museum and the Municipality of Athens, as part of the celebrations for the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution.

Get a head start on your holiday gift shopping and avoid the crowds - if the stores do open after all - with a visit to the website of the City of Athens' Industrial Gas Museum. The shop website is unfortunately only in Greek, but it is user-friendly and well-illustrated so it's easy to browse the merchandise.

A pair of Evzones, members of the presidential guard, performed the change of guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Parliament on Tuesday dressed in the traditional black Pontian costume to mark the 101st anniversary of the Pontic Genocide.

Greek Presidential Guards, known as evzones, present arms during a ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Athens from the Nazi occupation, with the Parthenon temple seen in the background, atop Acropolis Hill in Athens, on Saturday. 'The enemy remains alive, across the globe.

The new archbishop of America, Elpidophoros, was being enthroned in New York on Saturday at the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral, in the presence of hundreds of members of the Greek Orthodox Church and leading representatives of the country's Greek diaspora.

A soldier who had been serving in the Presidential Guard died on Thursday night, the Hellenic Army General Staff announced Friday.
According to a HAGS announcement, the unnamed soldier felt unwell while he was in his barracks and was transferred to the 401 military hospital in Athens where doctors confirmed his death.
The causes of death are being investigated, it added.

Officers from the police's anti-narcotics squad in Kavala, northern Greece, netted a large haul of ecstasy tablets and hashish in a crackdown earlier this week.

Two Greek men, aged 47 and 33, face charges of smuggling and dealing in narcotics while officers are seeking a third suspect, a 33-year-old foreign national.

A 33-year-old woman who tried to cross the Evzones border station into Greece from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with her two-month baby in her luggage is a fugitive convict, the Athens-Macedonia News Agency reported on Wednesday.

According to the AMNA, the Greek woman tried to slip through passport control at the border on Monday.