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A 16-year-old boy sustained injuries while playing basketball on the island of Rhodes in the eastern Aegean after a basketball hoop collapsed.

According to state broadcaster ERT, the incident occurred on Thursday in the courtyard of the 2nd Vocational Senior High School (EPAL).

Teachers of one of the children of a police officer formerly stationed at Greece's Parliament and accused of serial child rape and incest have been summoned to testify in an investigation aiming to determine any potential responsibility on their part. 

Police reportedly informed a municipality in Halkidiki early last month that an amusement park ride, in which a teen lost his life on Monday, did not have required operating license.

According to a report by state broadcaster ERT, police in Kassandra informed the local municipality of Kassandra by letter on July 9 that the ride was found to be unauthorized following an inspection.

The operator of an amusement park ride that claimed the life of a 19-year-old boy in Halkidiki, northern Greece, turned himself in to the authorities on Tuesday, state broadcaster ERT reported.

Two police officers detained after hitting and killing a pedestrian with their patrol car in southern Athens on Wednesday were released, state-run broadcaster ERT reported Thursday. 

According to eye-witness testimonies, no evidence emerged that they had run a red traffic light, ERT said, though the official investigation is still under way.

A 3-year-old boy died after choking on a piece of fruit on the island of Tinos on Tuesday, as reported by the public broadcaster ERT.

According to ERT, the boy's father promptly rushed him to a police station near the family's residence. Subsequently, the child was quickly transported to the Tinos Health Center by a police vehicle.

Speaking ahead of the next two Greek-Turkish milestones, the UN General Assembly in New York in mid-September and the High Council between Greece and Turkey toward the end of the year, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis reiterated on Tuesday that the sole fundamental difference between the two countries, namely the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf, can be

A sailboat with about 60 people on board some 100 kilometers off Pylos on Greece's southern coast was spotted on Friday by Italian authorities, who informed their Greek counterparts. 

The vessel did not send a distress signal, and was, reportedly, sailing normally. 

It was reportedly being monitored by the authorities, according to state broadcaster ERT.

Weather events and patterns in the Mediterranean indicate that the region, including Greece, will experience a summer as hot if not hotter than the last, which brought successive heatwaves and raised the climate change alarm. 

It looks like the US is sending a clear message on the importance of maintaining Greece's qualitative military edge with moves that will get the ball rolling on Greece's acquisition of both C-130 aircraft and F-35 jets.