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New Democracy vowed Tuesday to abolish the "despicable" "Paraskevopoulos law," which led to the release Tuesday, for a third time, of convicted November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas on a two-day furlough.

Pavlos Giannakopoulos, the founder of Greek pharmaceutical firm Vianex and co-owner of the capital's Panathinaikos basketball club from 1987 to 2012, died on Sunday morning. He was 89 years old.

Pavlos Giannakopoulos, the founder of Greek pharmaceutical firm Vianex and co-owner of the capital's Panathinaikos basketball club from 1987 to 2012, died on Sunday morning. He was 89 years old.

Greece's conservative opposition was to submit on Tuesday a proposal for the formation of an investigative committee to conduct a preliminary inquiry into whether former health ministers Panagiotis Kouroublis and Andreas Xanthos, as well as alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, are guilty of breaches of faith.

A decision by prison authorities to grant a fresh two-day furlough to convicted November 17 terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas triggered a reaction from New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis, whose husband, Pavlos Bakoyannis, was gunned down by the radical Marxist group outside his downtown Athens office in 1989.

Authorities in northern Greece on Friday were seeking to identify a man who drowned in the Evros River, apparently while trying to cross from Turkey into Greece.

The body of the man was recovered from the river by Greek border guards on Thursday afternoon.

A historian who was viciously attacked by a gang of Golden Dawn members in the summer of 2008 testified on Friday at the ongoing trial on the criminal activities of the far-right party, telling judges that there were a lot of similarities between that assault and others of which the party stands accused.

The NEON cultural organization has invited visual artist Kostis Velonis to create an in-situ installation that sheds light on the story of a neoclassical building in downtown Athens.

An investigation has been launched into the death of Pavlos Psomiadis, a former businessman serving 22 years at the capital's Korydallos Prison over an insurance scam.

A member of Golden Dawn standing trial with other officials and supporters of the far-right party was sentenced on Tuesday to seven months in prison over a remark addressed to the mother of Pavlos Fyssas, the rapper killed by a party member in September 2013.