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1. PASOK vs the polls

   PASOK has become something like a poodle: small and, as a result, insecure. It keeps barking constantly – not only at the government, which is, after all, part of its role – but also at the media and opinion polls.

2. Brexit has hurt Britain but has made the UK more like a European nation

   Ten years ago Nigel Farage was in political heaven. Since entering the European Parliament in 1999 at the head of a small anti-European party he had only one demand.

3. Athens Metro Line 3 faces disruptions as maintenance works begin

   Sections of Athens Metro Line 3 will face early station closures and service disruptions starting Monday as maintenance work shifts from Line 2.

4. Child injured after rally car crashes into spectators in northern Greece

   A nine-year-old child was injured Sunday at the 29th Epirus Rally in northwestern Greece after a race car veered off course and struck spectators.

5. Park Your Cinema | Athens | July 3-August 30

   The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (364 Syngrou Avenue) revives its “Park Your Cinema” series, turning the Great Lawn into an open-air movie theater beneath the summer sky.

6. Exarchia shooting victim identified as 25-year-old Turkish national

   New details have emerged in Saturday night’s fatal shooting in Athens’ Exarchia district, with police identifying the victim as a 25-year-old Turkish national.

7. Athens stabbing leaves teenager in intensive care during attempted robbery

   A 19-year-old man was in intensive care after being seriously wounded in a stabbing during an attempted robbery in Athens’ Patissia district on Saturday night.

8. Seppuku | Athens | June 28-30

   Spanish director Angelica Liddell returns to the Athens Epidaurus Festival at Pireos 260 with “Seppuku,” a provocative performance inspired by Yukio Mishima’s ritual suicide and his philosophy linking eroticism, beauty and death.

9. Athens police probe possible drug link in fatal Exarchia shooting

   Authorities are investigating whether the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old man in central Athens’ Exarchia district is linked to drug trafficking, state broadcaster ERT reported Sunday.

10. Three arrested in Athens air-condition theft ring crackdown

    Police have arrested three men accused of operating a theft ring that targeted air-conditioning units at schools and businesses in Athens’ southern suburbs.