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Olympiakos and Panathinaikos had to work hard to score home wins for the Euroleague on Friday, against opposition that in other seasons would not have troubled them so much.

NCAA legendary coach Rick Pitino is returning to Greece to coach the Greek national team, in the hope his mandate is not restricted to the Olympic qualification tournament but also extends to Tokyo 2020.

The Pitino era for Greece started on Friday with the cordial agreement of the 67-year-old American coach and the president of the federation Giorgos Vassilakopoulos.

With a career spanning five decades, much-loved Greek singer Yiannis Parios is scheduled to perform two concerts in Piraeus and Athens this month. This first will be at the Veakio Theater in Piraeus on Thursday, September 5, and the second at Theatro Petras in the northwestern Athens suburb of Petroupoli on Saturday, September 14.

Cypriot Justice and Public Order Minister Giorgos Savvidis on Wednesday expressed his shock at the news of the death of a British scientist who went missing while on holiday on a Greek island.

A defendant in the ongoing trial against Golden Dawn testifies in a special court at Korydallos Prison, in Piraeus, Monday.

After performing the play "Lemon" in a lemon orchard in the seaside town of Galatas, the Experimento theater group embarks on its next theatrical endeavor. The group will transform a ferry boat off the coast of the island of Poros into a stage where two actors, Melachrinos Velentzas and Giorgos Drivas, will repeat the performance.

Migration is a huge challenge for all European countries and demands a commonly-arrived at solution, Alternate Migration Minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos said on Thursday on his arrival at a European Union summit in Helsinki.

"It demands a common solution and a common reaction on a European Union level," he said.

Judges in the long-running trial of Golden Dawn (GD) on Thursday are finally hearing from Giorgos Roupakias, the man charged with the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas in September 2013.

Testifying in the trial of Golden Dawn on Wednesday, Giorgos Patelis, the former head of the neo-Nazi party's Nikaia chapter in southwest Athens, denied any involvement in the killing of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in 2013.

Following talks with European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday, Prime Minister Kyriakos on Monday had another meeting with key cabinet officials whom he asked to focus on six key areas in curbing the impact of migration inflows.