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In a targeted mafia-style attack during the early hours of Sunday, a 44-year-old man, purportedly a prominent figure in the nightlife scene, was ambushed and fatally shot outside a fuel station in the Athenian neighborhood of Neos Kosmos.

He reacted to the interview that former Austrian Chancellor had given to Tanjug News Agency.

Turkey's flag carrier Turkish Airlines has received a third Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.

The City of Athens, among other municipalities in many parts of Greece, will be opening eight air-conditioned community centers in different parts of the capital to the general public in response to a heat wave warning.

Turkey has suspended flights of Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 planes as part of "precautionary measures", officials said on March 12.

"We feel you California" is the message that young people from Mati, Neos Voutzas and Kokkino Limanaki, east Attica places ravaged by fire last July 23 posted for their California counterparts.

There is no comparing the scale of the two fires. Still, 99 people perished in Greece's worst such tragedy that unfolded in the space of a few hours.

The Anglo-Hellenic League, a London-based charity dedicated to promoting friendship between the people of the UK and Greece, will donate 10,000 pounds (11,200 euros) in support of the victims of the deadly wildfires in east Attica last July.

Residents of the coastal settlements of Mati and Neos Voutzas, which bore the brunt of July's disastrous wildfires, are up in arms over the government's backtracking on pledges to relieve them of paying the unified property tax (ENFIA). 

Survivors of last month's deadly blazes on the outskirts of Attica are struggling to cope while experts are warning of the public health risks posed by toxic ash in the afflicted areas, Kathimerini has learned. 

It seems to be Greece's lot: Difficult circumstances and unfortunate incidents - the type that every other civilized country habitually deals with on the basis of a well thought-out plan - somehow here tend to evolve into unspeakable tragedies because the Greek state apparatus is unable to deal with anything other than business as usual.