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1. Athens police launch manhunt after jailbreak

   A police search was underway for an inmate who escaped from the Greek capital’s Korydallos Prison on Tuesday morning, authorities said.

2. Greek inflation jumps to 5% in May

   Inflation in Greece jumped to 5% in May from 4.6% in April, according to preliminary data issued by the European Union statistics agency Eurostat on Tuesday, fuelled by higher energy prices.

3. New Left party melts away after seven MPs quit

   The New Left party will seize to be a separate parliamentary group, as seven of its lawmakers have announced their departure, which means their numbers will fall below the threshold of 10 MPs.

4. Intellexa founder: ‘We sell to government agencies’

   The founder of the Israeli surveillance technology company behind the Predator spyware reiterated that his company, Intellexa, only does business with national governments - a claim he said is supported by the testimony provided recently by the head of Greece’s national intelligence agency EYP before a Parliament panel.

5. The small family dairies of Hania

   Even on Sunday morning, the chimneys of Apokoronas’ dairies in northwest Crete are billowing smoke. In villages like Tzitzifes and Fres, farm trucks stop at the roadside and unload milk crates from the sheep and goats of the area’s numerous small-scale farmers.

6. Judges-prosecutors union blasts US ‘open intervention’ over Giotopoulos release

   The Association of Judges and Prosecutors has slammed calls by the US State Department towards the Greek government to overturn a court decision which allowed the conditional release of the mastermind of the defunct guerrilla group November 17.

7. Tsipras to Rama: Don’t ‘confuse patriotic duty’ with nationalism

   Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras has hit back at Albania’s Premier Edi Rama who accused him of nationalism, after the former called on Albanian authorities to respect the rights of the Greek minority, following the injury of an ethnic Greek during a protest.

8. Kalamata man accused of stabbing wife to testify before investigative magistrate

   A man arrested in the southern town of Kalamata on suspicion of stabbing his wife to death following a domestic dispute is expected to appear before an investigative magistrate on Tuesday.

9. EU paves way to allow migrant deportations to centres outside bloc

   European Union lawmakers and governments agreed on Monday on new rules allowing countries to send migrants ordered to leave the bloc to centres in third countries, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from rights groups that warn it could enable abuses.

10. Erdogan tightens his grip on Turkey

    Ayla Jean Yackley, Henri Barkey, Ambassador Marc Pierini, and Aya Burweila join Thanos Davelis this week as we break down the latest crackdown on Turkey’s opposition and its wider ramifications for Turkish democracy and the West.