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Due to the May 1 union rallies, large parts of central Athens city center will be closed to traffic Monday and public transport services will be limited.

All three Metro lines and tram services will be shut down all day, as employees stage a 24-hour stoppage.

The pool of homes that qualify for the government's My Home ("Spiti Mou") program is smaller than in the recent past. This is the program that, in cooperation with the banks, subsidizes mortgage rates to help young people (up to the age of 39) enter the housing market. It concerns properties worth up to 200,000 euros, at least 15 years old (built before 2007) and up to 150 square meters

Companion animals will not be allowed on the Acropolis Hill in Athens, an ancient citadel located on a rock above the city and one of Greece's most visited ancient sites, but they will be allowed in other prominent open-air archaeological sites under conditions, according to an expert ruling on Thursday.

The ties between the business world and Greek universities are being strengthened by the participation of CEOs and presidents of large companies operating in Greece in the advisory board of the postgraduate program in business administration of the University of Athens.

Police in Athens have arrested a 56-year-old fugitive wanted by the authorities in Albania for child trafficking.

The suspect, who was wanted on an Interpol arrest warrant, was tracked down in the central Athens district of Agios Nikolaos and taken into custody on Monday afternoon.

One of the oldest and most popular venues in Athens, the Aegli cafe-restaurant in Zappeio, will open again by the end of 2023 after a tender awarded a 20-year-lease to the Grigoris catering chain. It has been closed since October 2020.

Works are set to commence soon on the Arsakeio Arcade in downtown Athens to accommodate a Mediterranean food hall. The 10-million-euro investment by Legendary Foods SA is expected to generate 500 jobs directly and 5,000 indirectly at the now-defunct bookstore hub.

My family moved from the downtown Athens district of Kolonos to the southern suburb of Nea Smyrni in 1974 so we could be closer to our school, Leonteios. It was like moving to the countryside! Everything appeared bigger - and it was: the sidewalks, streets and especially those big houses with the pretty gardens.

A well-known foreign soccer player on a Greek Super League team has been indicted by an Athens prosecutor on felony charges over his alleged sexual molestation of an 18-year-old woman from Belgium.

An Intercity train traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki on Sunday experienced a power outage, causing it to come to a sudden stop just outside the city of Larissa in central Greece. 

The incident caused unrest among the passengers as the lights went out.