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  1. Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis on Thursday assured that the Souda Bay Naval Base is not under threat and remains fully protected, amid rising regional tensions.
  2. A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck near the southeastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo early Friday. No damage or injuries were reported.
  3. Authorities rescued 346 undocumented migrants in seven separate operations in the sea area south of Crete and Gavdos early Friday, the Coast Guard said.
  4. Filming for the movie “The Riders” is continuing in central Greece after production wrapped scenes on the Saronic island of Hydra.
  5. A total of 315 Greek citizens returned to Greece on Thursday from the Middle East amid the ongoing conflict in the region, in repatriation operations coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  6. Six members of a telephone fraud ring were arrested on Tuesday in Zefyri, Athens, after investigators determined they had stolen more than €280,000 from victims, authorities said.
  7. The Culture Ministry has unveiled a newly acquired collection of photographs documenting the Nazi execution of 200 Communist prisoners at the Kaisariani shooting range on May 1, 1944 – images so historically significant that the state has declared them protected monuments.
  8. Cyprus would submit an application to join NATO “even tomorrow if it were possible,” President Nikos Christodoulides said in an interview broadcast Thursday, while acknowledging that current political conditions prevent such a move.
  9. A 15-year-old French student died Thursday night after falling from the third floor of a hotel near Omonia Square in central Athens.
  10. NATO has increased its alliance-wide ballistic missile defense posture following the intercept of a missile from Iran targeted at Turkey, its military headquarters said on Thursday.