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Lost neoclassical facades of Athens are immortalized in the works of Yannis Tsarouchis, a prominent 20th-century modernist painter whose vision captures a world all his own.

One person died in a bloody incident around 1:00 p.m. Sunday on Lemessou Street in Patissia, Athens.

Bob W, one of the fastest-growing companies in the hospitality industry, is proceeding with the operation of the first two serviced apartment buildings in the center of Athens.

Police made four more arrests on Thursday afternoon regarding the pimping of a 12-year-old girl in the Athens district of Kolonos.

Among them is a 63-year-old man who was beaten up in the central Athens area of Omonia days ago after sending messages and photos to the 14-year-old daughter of a nightclub owner.

With the exhibition "Urbanography," curated by Syrago Tsiara, the National Gallery explores the urban transformation of Athens from 1950 to 1970 via the works of 78 artists. "It came out of a desire to seek out images of life in Athens, and thus to become part of a city where I was not raised in," said Tsiara, director of the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum.

Bermdez arrived in Belgrade last night and was met at the airport by the Minister of Defense of Serbia, Milos Vucevic.
As announced by the Office for Media Relations of the President of Serbia, at 10:00 a.m., welcome ceremony for the Cuban President is planned in front of the Palace of Serbia.
At 10:15, the tete-a-tete meeting between Vui and Bermdez will begin.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday Serbia's IT service exports in Q1 2023 alone totalled 786 mln euros, rising by 44 pct y-o-y, and that record-high exports of 4 bln euros were expected this year.

Brnabic said the number of employees in the Serbian IT sector had risen by as many as 3,435 since the beginning of the year.

Two separate protests were held in central Athens on Thursday evening protesting about the causes of the Pylos shipwreck tragedy.

Workers' unions gathered at Syntagma Square while leftist and antiracist organizations gathered at the old Athens University building on Panepistimiou Street, before marching through the city center.

A fifth-floor apartment in the central Athens neighborhood of Patisia was enveloped by flames on Thursday afternoon for yet unknown reasons.

The Hellenic Fire Service responded immediately to keep the blaze from spreading to the rest of the building.

"The staff deficit [because of the employment freeze] poses a huge problem. We cannot cover the extra hours," one of the protesters told the G4Media.ro news website.

Romanian healthcare workers are protest in front of the government bundling in Bucharest. Photo: Health Solidarity Federation Romania/Facebook