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1. Greece plans demarche to Ukraine over sea drone

   Athens will issue a formal diplomatic complaint to Ukraine over the uncrewed sea drone filled with explosives that was discovered this month on a rocky shore in western Greece, officials said Thursday.

2. Multiple fraudster preyed on job, home-seekers

   A man who allegedly exploited Greece's housing crisis and depressed job market to defraud scores of people over the past two years has been arrested in the central Athens district of Zografou, authorities said Thursday.

3. Noisy dispute leads police to suitcase of pot

   A heated dispute between two men in central Athens has led to the seizure of nearly nine kilograms of marijuana left in a suitcase on the staircase of a bloc of flats, police said Thursday.

4. Athens driver arrested for pulling gun over traffic dispute

   A new case of road rage in Athens has seen a motorist pull a handgun and threaten another driver following a traffic dispute, police said Thursday.

5. Another 22 charged over EU farm subsidy fraud

   European prosecutors in Athens on Thursday charged 17 people arrested in northern Greece for alleged fraud involving European Union farm subsidies, a day after 22 people from Crete were formally accused, separately, of similar criminal offenses.

6. As Coast Guard focuses on Libya surge, migrants reach Crete in yacht from Turkey

   A joint operation with Greece’s intelligence service has led to the Coast Guard discovering a new illegal migration route from Turkey to the southern island of Crete, officials said Thursday.

7. Tsipras formally registers his new ELAS party

   Left-wing former prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday formally registered his new Greek Left Alliance, or ELAS, party with the Supreme Court, voicing optimism that his political comeback after three years would prove “useful” to the country.

8. Freedom-of-navigation challenges take center stage at Posidonia

   This year's shipping mega-event expands more than ever not only in numbers but also in reach.

9. New drive to cut red tape

   The Interior Ministry has issued two circulars allowing citizens to replace documents, certificates and official records with sworn declarations when the information is already held in state archives but cannot yet be automatically retrieved through interoperability between public services.

10. Suspect held in case of headless, legless corpse

    A man has been arrested in northern Greece on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a Pakistani national whose headless, legless corpse was found in the sea four years ago.