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1. Student in critical condition with meningitis in Trikala

   A 19-year-old student diagnosed with meningitis earlier this week in Trikala, central Greece, remains in intensive care, with doctors describing his condition as stable but critical.

2. Man dies after falling from fifth floor in Ambelokipi

   Police in the Athens district of Ambelokipi are investigating the death of a man who fell from the fifth floor of an apartment building.

3. Scammers stole €21,000 from two elderly women

   Two people have been arrested in central Athens for defrauding elderly women out of more than €21,000 euros through a common but efficient phone scam, authorities said Thursday.

4. Athens rejects Turkish complaints on Thrace minority

   Greece on Thursday rejected complaints by neighboring Turkey over the religious rights of the Greek Muslim population in Thrace.

5. An unnecessary proposal

   “Such clientelist relations have been part of the Greek state since its foundation. It is one of the basic reasons that we lag behind the European average,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared on Monday, in an address to the nation regarding the farm subsidy scandal.

6. Pyrgos teenagers arrested for battering their baby

   A teenage couple has been arrested in southwestern Greece on suspicion of abusing its months-old baby to the extent that it needed urgent hospitalization, authorities said Thursday.

7. December date set for spyware scandal appeal trial

   The appeal court trial of four people convicted in connection with Greece’s phone spyware scandal will be held on December 11.

8. Going natural when it comes to dyeing your Easter eggs

   There’s a specific method to dyeing eggs with natural colorants derived from wildflowers, vegetables, or spices that is more or less the same regardless of the dye selected.

9. Profit ceiling could backfire, central bank warns

   The profit margin cap may ultimately lead to an increase in prices or at least not to their expected reduction, says the central bank.

10. Drive to feed air-dropped rabies vaccines to foxes in the wild

    A campaign to inoculate wild foxes against rabies through air-dropped, vaccine-laced baits will start at the end of April, authorities said Thursday, warning members of the public to seek medical assistance if they touch the baits.