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AEK, Olympiakos, Panionios and Asteras Tripolis have clinched qualification to the last 16 of the Greek Cup this week after their victories in the second round of group games.

Greek banks are adopting a tougher stance toward entrepreneurs who do not service their obligations, by moving ahead with the direct sale of major enterprises' bad loans to funds.

The sales planned will not only concern large portfolio transfers but also individual loan sales, even those of small or medium-sized companies.

Researchers' Night, an initiative launched by the European Commission 13 years ago to showcase the invaluable work being done by researchers across the bloc, is being celebrated in various Greek cities on Friday.

CineDoc, an initiative bringing together 18 documentaries and films that will be screened through March 2019 at cinemas in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra, Volos and Amaliada, starts on Wednesday with "Back to the Top," a documentary by Stratis Chadzielenoudas about the efforts of a young man and his friends to help him climb to the summit of Mount Olympus after losing the use of his legs in a moto

Anti-racism rallies were held in Athens and several other Greek cities on Saturday evening ahead of the fifth anniversary of the killing of a leftist rapper by a member of the neofascist Golden Dawn.

The rallies concluded without reports of the clashes between leftist demonstrators and members of right-wing groups that the police had feared.

The Greece Police (ELAS) on Monday announced an operation against a gang dealing in significant quantities of drugs.

According to ELAS, three Greeks and two foreign nationals were arrested in raids in Athens, as well as Fthiotida and Patra in central and western Greece, last Thursday, and three more suspects are being sought.

Vehicle traffic on the 2,880-meter-long Rio-Antirrio Bridge in western Greece rose 9.7 percent in the 12 months from July 2017 to June 2018, compared to an increase of 8.6 percent a year earlier, according to data published by Gefyra SA, the consortium that manages and maintains the bridge.

A 62-year-old foreign national was detained on Thursday on a European arrest warrant on the national highway connecting the southern cities of Patra and Pyrgos.

According to police, he is wanted by Swiss authorities for the repeated sexual abuse of minor.

The suspect has been remanded in custody pending his extradition.

"Genes give us the gun, while the environment pulls the trigger," the prominent US epidemiologist Devra Davis told Kathimerini in an exclusive interview ahead of her speech at a conference titled "Dramatic Changes on the Planet and the Greek Roots of Ecological Ethics," which took place at the University of Patra in southwestern Greece from June 17 to 20.

Olivier Award-winning cult British music act The Tiger Lillies is coming to Greece on a six-stop tour with a new production titled "The Very Worst of the Tiger Lillies," featuring its "fiercest, filthiest tunes for the perverse pleasure of fans old and new." The band will be playing at Piraeus's Veakio Theater on June 19, Thessaloniki's Dasos Theater on June 20, Ioannina's Its Kale castle on Ju