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In a statement on Wednesday, the Shipping Ministry said that the marine pollution caused by an oil spill from a tanker that sank off the coast of Salamina last month has been largely contained.

According to the statement, issued after a session of the coordinating committee appointed to oversee the cleanup, there is no more "surface pollution" in the area of Salamina.

Two armed men threatened a plainclothes police officer with a gun and stole his car at midnight on Friday in southern Athens. The incident occurred while the policeman was sitting inside his parked Skoda Fabia outside Village Cinemas in Palaio Faliro.

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Theodore, whose music strikes a balance between classical and electronic sounds, is performing at the Aeschylia Festival in Elefsina on Friday, September 29. The concert at the Old Olive Oil Mill (Palaio Elaiourgeio) starts at 8.30 p.m. and admission costs 5 euros.

Greece's Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) on Friday issued a public health warning, advising citizens and visitors to avoid exposure to areas affected by last weekend's oil spill in the Saronic Gulf.

Yiannis Aggelakas and his band 100ºC, currently on tour with their new album, will be performing at the old olive oil factory in Elefsina, western Attica, on Wednesday, August 23, one of many events the town has planned in the run-up to 2021, when it will don the European Capital of Culture mantle. The concert begins at 9 p.m.

Tugs tow the 107-year-old battleship Georgios Averof to Trocadero marina in Palaio Faliro in southern Athens, Wednesday. The 10,000-ton former Hellenic Navy flagship returned to its berth, where it serves as a floating museum, after months of privately funded maintenance and conservation work at the Skaramangas shipyard.

Finnish author Goran Schildt fell in love with Greece in the 1950s and 60s, photographing many of the places he and his wife Christine visited during their trips to this country. Schildt's black-and-white photographs beautifully captured Greece during that period, showing the people, the sea and the mountains.

Nations from across the African continent will share their customs, culture and traditions at the 16th annual African Gastronomy, Music and Folk Art Festival. Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Seychelles, Morocco and Egypt are among the many African countries whose unique contributions to world culture festival-goers will be able to learn about and enjoy.

After nearly a decade, the cycle of decline in the property market appears to be closing. In the year's first quarter prices in selected areas of the Greek capital may have shown a decline but this was at a rate below 1 percent on an annual basis, which has been the smallest yearly drop since the outbreak of the financial crisis.

The robber who escaped after spending 14 hours in a cupboard - even defecating inside it - as police officers from six departments searched for him in the apartment, the block and the neighborhood, could serve as a parable for many of our society's problems.