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1. FM calls for diplomatic solution in Iran talks

   Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis spoke by phone on Saturday with his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi, urging a diplomatic resolution to tensions with the US and Israel and calling for full respect for international law and freedom of navigation.

2. PASOK’s congress: Decisions and accountability

   The PASOK congress, which wraps up Sunday, is marked by the absence of both concern for the country’s productive reconstruction and a compelling governance vision to inspire citizens and win them back.

3. Legendary Greek singer Marinella dies at 87

   Marinella, one of Greece’s most iconic voices with a career spanning decades, died on Saturday at the age of 87.

4. Diamantopoulou: PASOK ‘will neither become a supplement nor be divided’

   Main opposition PASOK senior figure Anna Diamantopoulou told the ongoing congress Saturday that the party has no intention of cooperating with parties such as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy, citing “ideological, political and moral differences.”

5. Two dead in back-to-back accidents on Egnatia Odos motorway

   A sequence of two apparently related accidents within minutes of each other on Saturday afternoon on the Egnatia Odos in northern Greece left two people dead and two others lightly injured.

6. Papandreou: PASOK returning to ‘change how the country functions’

   Former prime minister George Papandreou told the ongoing PASOK congress on Saturday that the party is returning not to “better manage what exists,” but to “change how the country functions.”

7. Yeroulanos sets 1.5 million vote target, rejects post-election cooperation with ND

   Pavlos Yeroulanos, parliamentary spokesman for PASOK, called for a “full mobilization” of party members to secure victory in Greece’s next national elections, setting a target of 1.5 million votes and ruling out any governing cooperation with the conservative New Democracy.

8. Opening Greece’s mountains to the world, a handful of visitors at a time

   The vertiginous cliffs of the Vikos Gorge form the backdrop as arching stone bridges of Zagori stand proudly over pristine blue waters and morning mist descends from the mountains to mingle with smoke rising from the chimneys of the village-square kafeneia.

9. Doukas rules out coalition with ND, calls for governance overhaul

   Athens Mayor Haris Doukas, speaking at the ongoing PASOK party conference Saturday, ruled out any post-election cooperation with the ruling New Democracy party and called for a radical overhaul of Greece’s prime minister-centered system of governance.

10. Venizelos slams PM, calls for PASOK electoral victory

    Former deputy prime minister and PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos sharply criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a speech at the ongoing PASOK party congress Saturday, accusing the New Democracy government of overseeing a “generalized crisis” in Greece’s democratic institutions and the rule of law.