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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.

The six main parties have agreed to a televised pre-election debate, which will be held on May 10 at 9 p.m., state broadcaster ERT has reported.

The decision was made at a meeting of the interparty elections committee, which was chaired by caretaker Interior Minister Kalliopi Spanou.

Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos has been hospitalized in the past few days after contracting Covid-19 for the third time.

Public broadcaster ERT has reported that the 78-year-old artist is currently receiving treatment in a private hospital, with his condition being described as serious.

Lena Argiri, the DC Correspondent for Greece's state broadcaster ERT joins Thanos Davelis to break down former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's latest revelations in his new book, "Never Give An Inch," from his dealings with Turkey and President Erdogan to US relations with Greece. 

State TV ERT reported that the aircraft was an Antonov An-12 owned by a Ukrainian company