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1. Greek-Turkish relations in US, Israel shadow 

   Greece is attempting to strike a difficult balance between deepening its regional alliances and maintaining the communication channels established with Ankara over the past three years, while closely monitoring Washington’s role as a key power broker.

2. New property census targets tax evasion

   The government is set to launch the largest property census in the country’s history, requiring some 7 million owners to submit detailed information to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE).

3. Cyprus bank clerks in for hefty bonus

   Cypriot bank employees are looking forward to a special year regarding their earnings.

4. Elderly couple evacuated from blazing apartment

   Emergency crews successfully evacuated an elderly Thessaloniki couple after a fire broke out in their second-floor apartment Sunday.

5. Presents under the tree

   Our paths had never crossed before, even though we had lived in the same neighborhood for who knows how long. The suburbs are nice, but they have this thing.

6. Speaker mulls hard speech limits at parliament committees

   Parliament speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis plans to impose hard speech limits at parliamentary committee meetings broadcast live, he said in an interview Sunday.

7. This was Trump’s year. What about 2026?

   Without a doubt, 2025 was Trump’s year – and confirmation that History may be the sum of many contemporaneous developments but some individuals play a crucial role.

8. Vulnerable debtors getting a ‘second chance’

   Private and public investments will maintain high economic growth in Greece after the end of 2026, Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis told Kathimerini, responding to one of the most crucial questions about the economy.

9. The three shots that started a cycle of bloodshed

   The calendar read December 23, 1975. The mountains surrounding Athens were covered in snow and the Greek capital was decorated for the holidays.

10. Man killed as car plunges down hillside in western Crete

    A man was killed Sunday afternoon near the village of Sembronas in western Crete when the car he was driving veered off the road and plunged down a hillside.