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Authorities on Crete are investigating a fertility clinic in the city of Hania amid suspicions that it may have operated as a front for an illegal adoption racket.

Greek police arrested a 34-year-old man from Bulgaria in the city of Hania on the island of Crete on Tuesday for allegedly attacking his 19-year-old pregnant partner. 

According to reports, the man is accused of hitting the young woman on the head with a glass bottle.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will establish a research center on Crete to analyze demographic and migration policies, issues related to the diaspora as well as individual challenges related to the labor market and the population, under an agreement signed with the government on Tuesday.

A 50-year-old woman who claimed to possess the skill of divination was arrested on Friday for fraud on the island on Crete and the extortion of sums of money from a 46-year-old woman over a two-year period.

The regional authorities of Achaia, western Greece, were urging drivers on Thursday to use snow chains if travelling near the area of Kalavryta, as a cold front brought freezing temperatures around the country.

State-run news agency ANA-MPA reported that snow chains were required when travelling from Kalavryta to Diakopto, Patras and Halandritsa.

What were the chances of a butcher from the village of Platanias in Hania, Crete finding himself on the court of the iconic Golden 1 Center, the California home of the NBA's Sacramento Kings?

It was not the first time that we have heard or seen slogans extolling violence, celebrating assassinations or abusing the dead.

Three 15-year-old boys were reportedly released from custody in Crete on Friday after being remanded over several deeply offensive messages directed at New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis that were scrawled in the elevator of her office building in the town of Hania earlier this week.

Almost 92 million euros has been earmarked for aid to Crete, which suffered serious infrastructure damage from the torrential storms that struck the southern Aegean island in February and March, local reports said on Monday.

A 43-year-old foreign national charged with raping a 13-year-old Belgian girl last summer was remanded in custody Tuesday in the town of Hania on the island of Crete pending his trial.

The suspect, a resident of Hania for the last 13 years, denied raping the girl, who was on holiday with her family.