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Prime Minister Victor Ponta says President Traian Basescu, by the row stirred by his allegations that there is an 'undercover officer' among the presidential candidates in Nov.

Despite rejecting claims of turning Turkey into a ‘police state,’ the government proposes a wide extension of the jurisdiction of security forces

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to meet human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney on Wednesday, as part of an ongoing legal process to secure the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece it has been announced.

A 60-year-old man has been arrested in Edessa, in northern Greece, after police say they raided and confiscated dozens of guns and ammunition found at his home. Investigators say the man, whose name has not been made public, had six assault rifles with three cartridges, five handguns with six cartridges, one revolver and more than 1,800 rounds. He is facing a list of weapons charges.

Civil servants walked off the job on Friday morning as the Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, started hearing an appeal by their union, known by its Greek acronym ADEDY, against a public sector evaluation scheme that the government has pledged the troika to undertake as part of a broader streamlining of the public sector.

Police on Thursday morning were looking for at least two men who drove a truck into a police motorcycle and fired a gun into the air following an altercation on Wednesday night with patrons at a fast-food restaurant in Spata, northeast of Athens.

Twitter sued the US Department of Justice, intensifying its battle with federal agencies for the right to reveal the extent of US government surveillance

A scheme allowing police precincts to issue new identity cards on the spot was implemented on Tuesday.

Officers have direct online connections to the numerous government departments that are able to confirm an applicant’s details.

Therefore, applicants only need to bring two photographs and a witness with them.

A TIR truck with Bulgarian registration plates, driven by a Romanian citizen, caused a pileup, killing four and injuring 30 at the Thessaloniki - Veria highway in Greece, reports the Bulgarian National Radio.

More than half of those injured are in serious condition.

According to the reports, the police arrested the Romanian driver as he was trying to escape the accident site.

Police identified on Friday the 31-year-old man arrested in Athens this week who is suspected of being an accomplice of jailed Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis.