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1. Industrial turnover nearly flat in June

   Industrial turnover was almost flat in June, rising just 0.1% compared to June 2024. Last year, it had risen 4.6% from June 2023. Most of the gains came from mining, while manufacturing turnover shrank.

2. Turkey sees 5% drop in foreign visitors in July, Germans lead arrivals

   The number of foreign visitors arriving in Turkey fell 5% from a year earlier to 6.97 million in July, Tourism Ministry data showed on Friday.

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4. Between reform and disorder

   Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ government was elected with a mandate to establish stability and to get to grips with Greece’s many unsolved problems.

5. Children reportedly witnessed Volos femicide as manhunt continues

   New details have emerged in the femicide of a 36-year-old woman Friday morning in the port city of Volos, with all four of her children witnessing the attack.

6. Uncontrollable risk

   The case of the serious injury of a renowned foreign businessman in Mykonos has two aspects in terms of Greek realities.

7. Remote area schools struggle to survive

   Greece faces an annual dilemma over whether to keep schools operating in remote islands and mountainous regions, as closures accelerate rural depopulation across the country. 

8. Music and Mosaics | Athens | September 29 – November 8

   The Bernier/Eliades Gallery (11 Eptahalkou) in Athens is presenting Paolo Colombo’s third solo exhibition in the city, titled “Music and Mosaics.”

9. Greece to verify asylum seekers’ age with medical tests

   Greece will implement medical and scientific assessments to determine the age of asylum seekers claiming to be minors, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris announced Friday.

10. Civil society groups urge PM to reject remarks undermining NGO role

    Sixty-seven nongovernmental organizations have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, defending their work and warning that the denigration of civil society “undermines society itself and the institutional functioning of democracy.”