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Authorities were mobilized Friday after four migrants were reported missing from the Malakasa center, northeast of Athens.
The facility was put in quarantine earlier this month after several residents tested positive for Covid-19.
Two of the migrants were later located at Athens' central Larissis railway station.
Police are looking for the other two men.

The supply of apartments on the conventional rental market has soared over the last few weeks, due both to the slump in demand, because of coronavirus-related restrictions, and a number of properties being taken off short-term rental platforms.

A cleaner working for the municipality of Athens who found a bag containing 19,000 euros and delivered it to the police has been commended for her honesty and integrity by Athens

Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, who met with the employee and her supervisor to congratulate them.

Transport and Infrastructures Minister Kostas Karamanlis said on Thursday he is considering making the use of surgical masks in public transport mandatory, when the government starts revoking some of the measures to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.

A blood donation drive being coordinated by the government, a charity and a hospital in a bid to respond to the heightened need for blood due to the coronavirus pandemic got under way at the Athens Olympic Stadium (OAKA) in Maroussi, northern Athens, on Tuesday. 

An armed robbery was reported in a bank located in the Athenian district of Koukaki on Thursday morning.

According to reports, a person wearing a full-face mask entered the bank branch on Syngrou Avenue shortly before 10 a.m., brandishing a weapon.

The attacker took an unspecified amount of cash and fled. 

More than 80 roads in neighborhoods around Athens will have been resurfaced by the end of April, according to a statement Wednesday by the municipality, which is making the most of the drop in vehicle traffic as it allows crews to work day and night.

People will most certainly love the revamped Omonia Square at the heart of Athens. Any comparison with what had been in its place over the past 15 years would, after all, be devastating. Sure, we must pay heed to the objections raised by architects, which are legitimate from an institutional point of view: An architecture tender should proceed a project of this magnitude.

Bishop Nektarios of Corfu is to face trial on May 25 after holding a church service on the island on Saturday in contravention of a ban on church service imposed by the government as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Local prosecutor Dioynsios Lambridis set the trial date on Monday after the bishop visited him to provide his defense. 

Corfu prosecutor Dionysis Lambridis has drawn up charges against Bishop Nektarios of Corfu and the Diapontia islands, the mayor of central Corfu Meropi Ydraiou, the head of the municipal council Dimitris Metallinos and clerics and worshippers who participated in a service held at the Aghios Spyridon church in Corfu Town on Saturday despite the restrictions ordered by both the government and the