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In comments to Skai on Friday, Energy Minister Costis Hatzidakis said he could not rule out the possibility of power cuts as the country's electricity network "is stretched to its limits."

Efforts are being made to ensure that the network operates as smoothly as possible, he said. noting however that extended neglect has taken its toll.

Commenting on a Greek government amendment to overturn a scheduled lowering of the tax-free threshold for income which is set to be voted in Parliament later Friday, an unnamed Commission official has told Skai that "Greece must stick to agreed targets."

Athens-based journalist Vassilis Lyritzis, known for his lively and critical coverage of the news on television and radio, died in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 62.

An abandoned old house collapsed in Athens' so-called historical centre on Tuesday, private broadcaster Skai reported.

No people appeared to be trapped inside and no injuries were reported from passersby.

The house was located on Iouliou Smith street, right behind the Hill of the Pnyx - an area visited by hundreds of tourists.

A Greek urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a blast last month outside one of Greece's biggest TV stations and it accused media of promoting a "capitalist" agenda in the country.

In the claim posted on a website, the Popular Fighters Group (OLA), accused media of helping to preserve a "rotting economic and political system."

Police say a search for a bomb at the premises of TV station Ant1 was fruitless.

A phone call at 7:55 p.m. had warned that a bomb would explode in 1 hour. The building was evacuated.

A homemade explosive mechanism blew up outside Aghios Dionysios church in the upscale Athenian district of Kolonaki on Thursday morning injuring a policeman and another man, Greek media reported.

A homemade explosive mechanism blew up outside Aghios Dionysios church in the upscale Athenian district of Kolonaki on Thursday morning injuring a policeman, Greek media reported.

The device was placed inside a metallic box discovered by a church employee who notified police, according to the head of the police's special guards union, Stavros Mavroidakos.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday became the latest foreign official to express solidarity with the journalists in Greece's Skai TV and Kathimerini newspaper, following a bomb blast at the media group's premises in southern Athens on Monday morning.

The French and German ambassadors to Greece condemned Monday's bomb attack on Skai TV and Kathimerini newspaper during a visit to the headquarters of the media group in southern Athens Tuesday.