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  1. Mixed reactions have emerged within the Church hierarchy over legislation granting substantial salary increases to senior clergy, a measure included in a Finance Ministry bill.
  2. A court in northern Greece has convicted the owner of a Halkidiki amusement park and three others over the 2024 death of a 19-year-old on a fairground ride prosecutors said was dangerously defective and poorly maintained.  
  3. When Kostaq Konomi approached what he says is his land on the seafront in southern Albania last month, he was met with a barbed wire fence and men in black uniforms who refused him entry.
  4. Athens Mayor Haris Doukas secured a €75 million loan from the European Investment Bank for school renovations, sparking criticism from predecessor Kostas Bakoyannis.
  5. Giannis Skopelitis, known to generations of islanders and travelers as “Captain Giannis,” the longtime master of the ferry Express Skopelitis and a symbol of the Small Cyclades’ connection to the wider Aegean, has died at 68.
  6. ESM sees opportunity for Greece to improve its economic stature thanks to investment flow.
  7. Greece’s armed forces have drawn key conclusions about the state of the country’s domestic unmanned-systems sector following the national joint exercise “Doureios Ippos (Trojan Horse) 2026.”
  8. Olympiakos has won the European crown in women's water polo for a fourth time.
  9. A court in Patra, western Greece, has acquitted a father charged with violating the sexual dignity of his 9-year-old daughter after he fell asleep next to her while watching television.
  10. Photographer Constantinos Pittas revisits his 1980s archive in new publication.