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  1. The Eurovision Song Contest is turning 70, with a few political clouds hanging over its glitter-drenched party.
  2. Investment of €500 million in three factories by DEMO, Win Medica (of the ELPEN group) and FARAN.
  3. Dozens of activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off Crete Thursday disembarked Friday on the southern island, according to reports.
  4. Authorities have seized a large quantity of narcotics and arrested a truck driver at the port of Igoumenitsa in western Greece after discovering about 500 kilograms of skunk-type cannabis hidden in a cargo shipment, police said Friday.
  5. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki says its vice-rector for international relations was attacked by a group of students inside a university administration building on Thursday, forcing him to abandon a scheduled meeting with a foreign delegation and be taken to hospital.
  6. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis marked May Day on Friday with a video message posted on social media, highlighting his government’s labor and economic policies and saying the administration responds to “easy slogans” with “work and results.”
  7. Greece’s alternate transport minister took part in a late-night cleanup operation at an ISAP electric railway station south of Athens, using a paint roller and bucket to cover graffiti as part of a government effort to improve the capital’s aging transit network.
  8. A new documentary from Fork Films highlights what it calls one of Australia’s most significant yet overlooked migration stories – the Greek café and milk bar phenomenon that helped reshape how the nation worked, ate and socialized, The Greek Herald reports.
  9. Athens unveiled a new bronze statue of poet Constantine P. Cavafy on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, honoring his legacy and placing him among the city’s literary landmarks.
  10. A peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has been effectively "frozen" by the Turkish government, a top militant commander said on Thursday.