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1. The high cost of routine failures

   It is often the case that effective state care does not require major spending or long-term planning. It simply takes basic, minimally systematic scheduling. Maintaining road markings is one such task – a project of negligible cost.

2. Scanning the truth: A new tool for food safety

   A pocket-size “digital food detective,” developed by Giorgos-Ioannis Nychas of the Agricultural University of Athens, promises rapid, non-destructive checks of food quality and safety.

3. Cartoon (13/02/2026)

4. Winter stays: Four of the best guesthouses in the Pilio region

   Crackling fireplaces, homemade breakfasts and courtyards crowned with plane trees, all set within Mt Pilio’s magical winter landscape.

5. ATHEX: Friday the 13th hits the stock market

   Friday’s steep decline at the Greek bourse had some observers looking twice at the calendar.

6. Faded lines, rising road safety risks

   A recent fatal accident on Kymis Avenue in Nea Ionia, where a man was struck while crossing at a pedestrian crosswalk, has revived a persistent question: How safe are roads when even basic markings have been left to fade?

7. Boy, 13, arrested with adult over string of robberies in Patra

   A 13-year-old boy has been arrested in the southern city of Patra on suspicion of helping an adult man mount a series of robberies on pedestrians, police said Friday.

8. Bus driver fired after cellphone use incident in Thessaloniki

   A coach driver has been fired after being recorded using his cellphone while driving, his employer confirmed.

9. Supporters of Ecumenical Patriarch dismayed at attack from Russia

   A US-based Orthodox Christian group on Friday expressed dismay at a verbal attack, a month ago, on the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians by Russia’s secret service.

10. Protesting farmers cite rising costs and falling incomes

    Farmers attending Friday’s protest in central Athens have said they came to the capital seeking long-term solutions to mounting economic pressures that threaten the future of rural communities.