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1. Shocking delays at Cyprus Land Department

   Serious systemic problems are undermining how state land is managed in Cyprus and how property rights are protected.

2. Youth unemployment improving

   Greece used to be at the bottom in Europe in unemployment of young people with 39.5% in 2019, but that rate has dropped to 13%, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a video posted online on Tuesday.

3. Dinner is being recorded, whether you know it or not

   Last summer, Tom Wong was working at the Chubby Crab, his family’s seafood boil restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown, when a regular approached the counter. She ordered a combo – steamed clams instead of sausage, please – and ate it at a table near the door, muttering to herself in between bites.

4. Historical quest

   The question of how we approach and deal with our country’s modern history has been brought back to the fore by the Greek state’s quest for photographs from the World War II executions at the Kaisariani Shooting Range in 1944.

5. Greece part of the Gaza Stabilization Force

   In its first international mission with a ground force since being part of ISAF in Afghanistan, Greece will participate in the International Stabilization Force in Gaza.

6. Cartoon (17/02/2026)

7. Are minority governments sustainable?

   On November 16, 2023, Pedro Sanchez, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), despite having come second in the general elections of July 23, 2023 – and having only 121 deputies out of a total of 350 – received a vote of confidence,

8. ATHEX: Athinon Avenue continues its decline

   The Greek stock market suffered a price drop for a third day in a row on Tuesday.

9. Greek, Serbian police to hold joint summer patrols in Halkidiki, Zakynthos

   Greek and Serbian police officers will conduct joint patrols this summer in parts of Greece that are popular with Serbian tourists, officials said Tuesday.

10. Residents warned to avoid Acheloos river due to planned water release from dam

    Civil protection authorities have warned residents in areas near the Acheloos river in central Greece to stay away from the banks due to a planned release of overflow from a dam in the region.