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1. Food service bags in Cyprus don’t pass muster

   Laboratory tests on food delivery transport bags in Cyprus detected the presence of pathogens that can cause food poisoning.

2. Authorities probe 8 inmate deaths in 65 days at Patra prison

   Authorities are investigating eight inmate deaths over 65 days at Agios Stefanos prison in Patra, raising questions about conditions inside the facility.

3. The splinters of the left

   People who do not have first-hand experience of the workings of the left have trouble understanding the deeper causes of the six split-offs that have taken place from within the ranks of the SYRIZA party since 2015, forming Popular Unity, Course of Freedom, MeRA25, Kosmos, Democrats – Progressive Center and New Left. 

4. Global beats lift the mood at Athens park

   As summer settles into Athens, dozens of DJs are working the decks at the capital’s Pedion tou Areos Park through June 28, in a free-admission festival.

5. Christian influencers gaining traction

   “My name is Georgia and I live in the provinces with my husband and our two children. I created this profile so we could cultivate a beautiful community and share our interests in motherhood, books, creative activities for our children and, most importantly, our love and constant quest for God.”

6. FM: Greece favors EU expansion to Western Balkans in 2027

   Greece wants one or more Western Balkan countries to join the European Union in the second half of 2027, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said in an interview to Serbian newspaper “Politika.”

7. Lady Elgin’s letters on removal of Parthenon Sculptures become docudrama

   This time around, the story is told through the perspective of a woman who was very close to the events, Lady Elgin, and is drawn from a series of private letters.

8. ‘We breathed its air, we belong there’

   There they were, waiting for me, beautifully stylish, in a seaside taverna in Alimos, southern Athens. Seven Greek classmates and inseparable friends from the seventh grade of the Ioakeimeion Girls’ High School.

9. PASOK vs the polls

   PASOK has become something like a poodle: small and, as a result, insecure. It keeps barking constantly – not only at the government, which is, after all, part of its role – but also at the media and opinion polls.

10. Brexit has hurt Britain but has made the UK more like a European nation

    Ten years ago Nigel Farage was in political heaven. Since entering the European Parliament in 1999 at the head of a small anti-European party he had only one demand.