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Police forces used chemicals to thwart an attempt on Monday by farmers to climb on to the E65 highway in Karditsa, Central Greece and set up a blockade. Tension prevailed at the scene, while the farmers walked onto the highway and held a general meeting.

In the leadup to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) has said that the responsibility to pass on the memory of the Holocaust "is a sacred mission."

In a statement, the KIS noted that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the German and Bulgarian occupation zones of Greece.

Motorists on the Attiki Odos motorway around Athens are facing delays of up to 25 minutes due to an crash at one interchange and the deteriorating weather situation.

Traffic is particularly slow moving between the Marathon and Kifissia intersections and between the Plakentias and Kifissia junctions.

Police said on Wednesday they had dismantled a gang of minors accused of systematically stealing from shops in areas of Attica.

The gang has been linked to 26 cases of theft from shops in Omonia, Kypseli, Galatsi, Ambelokipi, Palaio Faliro, Peristeri, Aegaleo and Nikaia and one house. A 16-year-old Greek and two Albanian nationals, aged 15 and 17, were arrested on Tuesday.

The new logo for the promotion of Kastoria in Western Macedonia as a tourism destination for all seasons was presented last week, not only in Greek but also in English, at an event organized by the vice mayorship for culture and tourism of the local municipality

The TaxiMe app, born in the laboratories of the University of Thessaly, offers integrated "door-to-door" combined transport services, based on the grouping of travel demand.

The mayor of Amiens in northern France has released a video "requesting" that Madonna "loan" the city a painting from her personal collection, which resembles one lost there during World War I.

Greek Citizens' Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos will meet in the northeastern town of Alexandroupoli on Saturday with 27 ambassadors of EU member-states associated with the Schengen Treaty and of the UK to brief them about the Akritas plan to protect the border with Turkey at Evros.

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale registered shortly before 9 p.m. in the Gulf of Patras, near Antirio, on Wednesday evening.

The quake had a focal depth of five kilometers, and it was reportedly felt across the city of Patras, northwestern Peloponnese, and also at coastal areas in Etoloakarnania.

No injuries or damages have been reported so far.

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Alexandroupoli plays a key geopolitical, energy, and development role and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in his address at the inauguration of the project to build the city's gas-fired power production unit on Saturday, as he wrapped up a two-day tour of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.