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1. Hellenic Dairies acquires Dodoni, vows to support Epirus farmers

   Hellenic Dairies SA announced the completion of the buyout of the Dodoni dairy company.

2. Greek businessman Panos Marinopoulos dies at 74

   Panos Marinopoulos, a well-known Greek businessman, has died at the age of 74.

3. ‘High risk’ prisoners moved from Crete

   Police are in the process of moving five remanded prisoners considered “high-risk” from Crete to prisons in other parts of the country.

4. Greens and Reds in the Euroleague top four

   Panathinaikos made it three wins a row, beating Dubai BC by 21 at home on Thursday, and Olympiakos came from behind to see off Paris in Piraeus on Friday.

5. Inquiry panels and theatrics

   The political system has almost confessed that the parliamentary inquiry committees are more like political theater, rather than proper investigative procedures that lead to the constitutionally prescribed results. 

6. Heavy rain triggers 367 fire department calls in Corfu and Epirus

   Firefighters received 367 calls from early morning until 4:30 p.m. Friday as heavy rainfall impacted Corfu and the Epirus region.

7. Cartoon (21/11/2025)

8. Stournaras slams ‘vile conspiracy’ in Novartis case

   Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras told an Athens misdemeanor court he had been the target of a “vulgar attack” and a “carelessly staged conspiracy,” testifying in the appeal trial of two former protected witnesses in the Novartis case.

9. From eurozone’s scapegoat to a European success story

   It’s been only 15 years since Olli Rehn, then EU commissioner, wished “kalo kouragio” (bon courage) to debt-stricken Greeks and the foreign press declared that “the party is over” – back when Greece was a pariah state that some wanted to push out of the eurozone.

10. Government to disburse financial aid to pensioners on November 28

    A one-off financial aid of 250 euros is expected to be credited to the bank accounts of 1.2 million pensioners next Friday.