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An annual march to the American Embassy in Athens to mark the anniversary of the November 17, 1973 Athens Polytechnic student uprising against the military dictatorship will affect public transport in the and around the city center on Saturday, and especially the metro.

Greek police have detained nine persons in connection with an earlier intrusion of an anarchist group into the Argentinean embassy, in central Athens.

The anarchist group Rouvikonas targeted the Embassy of Argentina in central Athens on Friday.

Reports were not clear concerning the number of people who breached security and entered the building on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue in order to scatter fliers at around 10.15 a.m.

The group also erected a banner on the front of a nearby building.

The Athens Concert Hall will be hosting an evening of works for piano by Leonard Bernstein, among others, on Wednesday, October 31, in tribute to the great American composer and marking the centenary of his birth earlier this year.

On the day when Leonard Cohen would have turned 84, three young singers will come together in the Athens Concert Hall's gardens to perform songs the late singer-songwriter branded with his low-toned, distinctive style. Nalyssa Green, Sugahspank and Lou Is promise to take listeners on a journey through the dreamy and melancholy universe of this unique artist who passed two years ago.

Whether he's aware of it or not, Panos Skourletis now bears full political responsibility for Rouvikonas and for the police's inability to bring the anarchist group to task.

The interior minister who was recently appointed to head the Citizens' Protection Ministry no longer has a shield in the form of Nikos Toskas, whose responsibilities he assumed.

Police in Athens have cordoned off the area around the Interior Ministry on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue near central Syntagma Square as experts investigate a bomb threat.

Anonymous callers on Friday morning told staff at Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper that two bombs had been planted in the ministry and were timed to go off at 10.30 a.m. and at 12 noon.

On the defensive after seeing the coalition's majority reduced again this week, government officials on Wednesday branded an attempted attack on the office of a coalition MP as part of a scheme to destabilize the administration but were silenced when the anarchist group Rouvikonas took responsibility for the incident. 

The Rouvikonas anti-establishment group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for an attempted attack on the office of an MP with Independent Greeks, the right-wing party in Greece's left led-coalition.

The Athens Open Air Film Festival launches its eighth annual edition on Monday, June 4, with the 1995 American romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County" as its first screening. This year, the festival program includes 18 classic films, many of which are famous literary adaptations.