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1. Slightly fewer bikers caught without helmets

   More than 1,070 people have been fined nationwide in the last week of March for riding motorcycles or e-scooters without crash helmets in a slight decline from the previous week, officials said Monday.

2. Ukraine seeks more LNG and diesel from Greece, state-run Naftogaz says

   Ukraine, which has begun building up gas reserves for next winter, is interested in increasing LNG supplies through Greek ​terminals and the pipelines of the Vertical Corridor system, ‌Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz said on Monday.

3. Loan tranches are set to grow

   The European Central Bank is likely to make three interest rate hikes by the end of the year, according to the 12-month Euribor, which could lead the key interest rate to 2.75% from the current 2%.

4. Court awards damages to family of Tempe train crash victims

   A court has awarded 400,000 euros in damages to four relatives of victims of the 2023 Tempe railway disaster, in what lawyers say is the first ruling to attribute responsibility to the state for the deadly crash.

5. Wage increase for all salaries not automatic

   The increase in the minimum wage could spread for all salaries and not just at the base of the wage pyramid, the government says, but this spread is neither automatic nor uniform.

6. Man arrested after bodies of mother and sister found in sealed room in Athens

   Authorities have arrested a 54-year-old man after the bodies of his mother and sister were found in an advanced state of decomposition inside a sealed room in his apartment, officials said Tuesday.

7. Former political wiretapping figure sentenced to 6 years for judicial bribery

   Christos Mavrikis, a former figure in a high-profile political wiretapping scandal of the early 1990s, was sentenced Monday to six years in prison and fined 20,000 euros for attempting to bribe a judge, court officials said.

8. After fuel, electricity rates go up

   Energy rate hikes are expected to bring intense pressure on households and businesses, after the high fluctuations triggered by the crisis in the Middle East.

9. ‘Death was not our fate’: Syrian father crosses seas to save his ailing son 

   Abdulaziz Aldarwish decided to take drastic action after his son Yahia’s young kidneys failed.

10. Inside Alexis Akrithakis’ rebellious world

    A woman examines an arrangement of pieces by Alexis Akrithakis (1939-1994) at a career-spanning retrospective running through May 24 at the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street annex, in a photo published on Saturday.