Palaio Faliro

Actor Giorgos Kimoulis is tipped to become managing director at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on the south coast of Athens, Kathimerini understands.

The state-of-the-art complex in Faliro will house the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera.

Police in Athens believe that two men arrested as part of an operation to locate the fugitive urban guerrilla Pola Roupa may also be linked to Greece's Number One jailbird, Vassilis Palaiocostas.

The suspects are thought to be part of a gang of five that conducted numerous armed robberies at banks and other businesses, and have also been tied to murders and a kidnapping.

Six footbridges will be constructed over dangerous road crossings in Athens, the Infrastructure Ministry announced on Friday.

Minister Christos Spirtzis signed off on the 13-million-euro project and announced a tender.

The “Mars Observation Week” will start in Athens with an event for a National Geographic documentary TV fantasy series of the conquest of the red planet called “Mars”. A series of happenings, which are open to the public (6pm till 10pm), commence on Monday, November 21 at Zappeion and are scheduled to run until November 27 at the Floisvos Park.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras confirmed his undisputed leadership of ruling SYRIZA on Sunday after he was re-elected, unopposed, as its president at the end of the party's 2nd Congress in Palaio Faliro, Athens.

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A young lawyer with links to Greek football clubs was ambushed by two hooded men outside his office in the district of Paleo Faliro, south of Athens.

The attack took place at 5.45 p.m. while the lawyer was straddling his motorbike. The two gunmen shot him three times in the leg. He is now in hospital in a serious condition.

Migrants temporarily sheltered at the Tae Kwon Do stadium of Palaio Faliro were transfered to other sports facilities at Hellenikon as Tae Kwon Do European championships kick off at the stadium on Sunday.

The Greek Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government has yet to create a hotspot for an island in the east Aegean despite the fact that it is nearing the end of December. Instead, it is trying to handle the flow of thousands of refugees in Athens while frantically seeking temporary shelters.

Greek government had announced yesterday the migrants held at Tae Kwon Do stadium in Paleo Faliro would be transferred to the Hellinikon Olympic Hockey Centre since the stadium should be evacuated to be prepared for European games.