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1. Mitsotakis proceeds to several cabinet changes

   Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has decided a series of changes to the cabinet, after he moved Deputy Transport Minister Constantinos Kyranakis into the post of New Democracy secretary general. The cabinet changes include: Giorgos Kotsiras as Alternate Transport Minister, Dimitris Markopoulos as Deputy National Economy and Finance Minister responsible for Taxation Policy and Marilena Soukouli […]

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2. James Dalamangas, Australia’s most wanted fugitive, arrested in Greece

   Greek authorities have arrested James Dalamangas, one of Australia’s most wanted fugitives, a Greek-Australian man accused of the fatal stabbing of another Greek-Australian fellowman in Sydney in 1999. Back then, the now 55-year-old Dalamangas fled to Greece and was located and arrested at a rural property near the town of Aigio, northern Peloponnese, on Sunday, […]

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3. Cyprus to lodge complaints over interference with EU defense ministers’ flights of Greece, France & the Netherlands

   The government in Cyprus will lodge a complaint on what it described as “interference” with communications between air traffic control and aircraft carrying ministers from Greece, France, and the Netherlands on the part of the Turkish Cypriot authorities as the three aircraft approached Cyprus, presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos said on Monday. “The Republic […]

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4. Man fined with €270,000 for abandoning nine kittens

   A 55-year-old man in Thessaloniki was fined with the huge amount of 270,000 euros for having abandoned nine kittens on a plot of land in the Kalamaria area. The man was arrested on Saturday night, after two eyewitnesses saw him abandoning the kittens including a cat mom with her four newborn. For each kitten the […]

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5. Palestinian national arrested in Crete on terrorism-related charges

   A 37-year-old foreign national of Palestinian origin was arrested in Agios Nikolaos in Crete on Saturday. The man has reportedly confessed to have been trained by terror-organization Hamas. He was arrested during a joint operation conducted by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the Directorate for the Investigation of Special Violent Crimes. The suspect is […]

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