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1. ‘I get bored with written psychological profiles’

   His ground-floor office in downtown Athens – a simple space, the kind you might easily pass without noticing – was filled with sunlight on the day we met.

2. First day of search for sunken migrant boat off Chios yields no results

   A search operation off the eastern Aegean island of Chios to locate and recover a migrant boat that sank after colliding with a coast guard patrol vessel earlier this month has yielded no results on its first day.

3. Hydra hyped for Brat Pitt filming

   Brad Pitt has reportedly arranged to meet US Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle on Hydra amid preparations for the filming on the island of the new Hollywood production “The Riders,” in which he stars.

4. Bulgaria’s new PM reaffirms pro-Western orientation ahead of April vote

   Bulgaria’s newly appointed prime minister has reaffirmed that his country’s pro-Western orientation is “a core value” and a strategic commitment, as it prepares for April elections.

5. Greece seeks role in IMEC, Mitsotakis tells Modi

   Greece wants to participate in the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, at a meeting on Thursday on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi 

6. Foreigners and Greeks compete for similar residential properties

   The gap between foreigners and Greeks is narrowing in terms of the value of the properties they are interested in buying, as well as the amount of rent they intend to pay.

7. The probe into corruption at the heart of Albania’s government

   Tensions have grown in Albania since the special prosecution office indicted Prime Minister Edi Rama’s deputy, Belinda Balluku, in December on suspicion of interfering in the awarding of two construction contracts in 2021 worth more than €200 million.

8. Athens airport lost contact with radar, say air traffic controllers

   The Association of Greek Air Traffic Controllers revealed on Thursday that its staff had lost contact with a radar used to direct air traffic around Athens International Airport.

9. Wiring fault scammers allegedly netted €662,000 in weeks

   A man has been arrested in southern Greece for allegedly belonging to a ring of scammers that used the increasingly widespread home wiring fault ploy to steal well over half a million euros from vulnerable people in just weeks, police said Thursday.

10. Missing 26-year-old found dead in Corinth Canal 

    A 26-year-old man who had been missing since he disappeared from the suburb of Glyfada, southern Athens, on February 14, was found dead in sea off the Corinth Canal, which separates mainland Greece from the Peloponnese.