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1. Cretan dockworker suffers head injury trying to moor ferry

   A dockworker on the island of Crete was injured in the head Friday while trying to help moor an incoming ferry, authorities said.

2. Island bar owner arrested for serving minors

   A bar owner on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Ikaria was arrested Friday for allegedly serving alcohol to two minors who subsequently became so drunk that they required hospital treatment, authorities said.

3. Heinz Kounio, one of Greece’s last Holocaust survivors, dies aged 98

   One of Thessaloniki’s last Holocaust survivors, Heinz Kounio, has died aged 98, an association representing Greece’s Jewish communities said Friday.

4. Competition in telecoms shifts to wireless networks

   Competition in telecommunications is gradually shifting to a new field, as providers look for ways to fill the gaps left by the development of fiber optic infrastructure

5. Lesvos livestock breeders told to keep calm amid foot-and-mouth outbreak

   The government will partially lift a ban on the sale of cheese from the foot-and-mouth disease-hit island of Lesvos, Rural Development Minister Margaritis Schinas promised Friday following a meeting with local livestock breeders.

6. Erdogan rejects ‘maximalist’ approaches in Aegean, East Med

   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country rejects what he described as “maximalist unilateral approaches” that seek to exclude Turkey and the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus from regional developments.

7. Police break gang of motorcycle thieves

   Authorities have broken a ring that stole motorcycles from the Greater Athens region cruising the streets by night in a white van they used to spirit away their loot, police said Friday.

8. Trucker held for breaking sheep pox ban on transporting livestock

   A truck driver has been arrested in southern Greece after being caught breaking a ban on the local transport of livestock amid the sheep pox epidemic, authorities said Friday.

9. Man arrested after discovery of large cache of child abuse material

   Police have arrested a 46-year-old man who was found in possession of hundreds of thousands of files containing child sexual abuse material, authorities said on Friday.

10. Phone scammers lift €100,000 in pensioner’s buried savings

    A pensioner in a northern Greek village who had buried €100,000 in cash in her garden for safekeeping has lost the entire sum after falling for a phone scammer who posed as an accountant, police said Friday.