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1. Fifteen face multiple charges following Grigoropoulos march

   Fifteen people arrested during Saturday’s march commemorating the 2008 police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos have been charged with multiple misdemeanors.

2. Flights at Iraklio Airport suspended due to farmers’ protests

   Flights to and from Iraklio Airport on Crete have been suspended after protesting farmers breached airport grounds and swarmed onto the apron area, forcing authorities to shut down operations.

3. Two dead in hit-and-run crash involving unlicensed driver near Xanthi

   A head-on collision near the northern city of Xanthi late Sunday killed two people when a 36-year-old man without a driver’s license slammed into a motorcycle.

4. Police officer appears before prosecutor after boy alleges assault

   A police officer from the Crime Prevention and Suppression Team (OPKE) has appeared before a prosecutor after a 12-year-old boy and his mother filed a complaint claiming the uniformed officer punched the child during a police check in Ilion, western Athens.

5. The mother of all wake-up calls from Washington to Europe?

   Ian Lesser, the vice president and Brussels chief of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins Thanos Davelis as we take a closer look at President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy and its scathing critique of Europe, which some are already calling the “mother of all wake-up calls” from Washington toward Europe.

6. 2 survivors found among 17 bodies on a migrant boat south of Crete say 15 others are missing

   Two men found alive among 17 dead bodies in a partially sunken migrant boat south of the island of Crete over the weekend told Greek authorities the vessel had been carrying a total of 34 people, and that 15 had fallen overboard and were missing, Greece’s coast guard said Monday.

7. Athens prosecutor seeks conviction in surveyor’s murder trial

   A prosecutor on Monday called for the conviction of two men accused of murdering 54-year-old surveyor Panagiotis Stathis in the Athens suburb of Neo Psychiko in July 2024, saying the evidence against them was “unshakeable.”

8. Clashes erupt as farmers try to block Crete airport entrance

   Tension flared on Monday outside Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport in Iraklio, Crete, as protesting farmers and livestock breeders attempted to block the main entrance.

9. Korydallos prison’s psychiatric clinic joins ESY

   The Health Ministry announced the integration of the psychiatric ward operating inside Korydallos Prison – Greece’s largest penitentiary – into the National Health System (ESY) and the national mental health network, in an effort to improve the psychiatric care of inmates.

10. Turkish police officer dies from gunshot wounds suffered in Istanbul drug raid

    A police officer died Monday after being shot and seriously wounded during an early morning drug raid in Istanbul, Turkish officials said. Officer Emre Albayrak died of his wounds in a hospital. He was part of a special operations team carrying out the raid in the Cekmekoy district on Istanbul’s Asian side. “Our police officer […]