Panathinaikos basketball club has parted ways with head coach Ergin Ataman after three seasons, the club announced Monday following a meeting between Ataman and owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos.

The timing of Jerusalem Patriarch Theophilos’ trip to Athens alone is an indication of the framework of the visit and the importance of the meetings held and the messages conveyed.

“Which kid from high school knows that you’re dealing drugs?” The way things are going, soon some kid in a classroom will raise their hand to answer positively.

Authorities have tabled a draft legislative amendment to prevent the “unfair” seizure, for debts to the public sector, of one-off state subsidies to the parents of schoolchildren with hearing problems, the Finance Ministry said late Monday.

Every year at this time, the government is busy analyzing the right mix of measures for the prime minister’s announcements at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF).

A female police officer has been fatally stabbed in her home in northern Greece, shortly before her husband, also a member of the force, was located dead in his car with a gunshot wound.

Greek officials have announced the completion of all administrative procedures for the entry of US energy company Chevron into Block 10 in the Gulf of Kyparissia, off western Peloponnese.   

Authorities say they have broken a large gang that allegedly stole and resold cars in the Greater Athens region while engaging in insurance fraud, making about €1 million over the past three years.

The main index of the Greek stock market closed a historic circle on Monday.

Greece’ s migration minister on Monday called criticism from human rights groups a “badge of honor” and vowed to further toughen migration policies he called “the toughest — if not the toughest — in Europe.”

This week is the 10th anniversary of the referendum in Britain that voted to leave the European Union. As Hillary Clinton predicted, Brexit has been “one of the greatest and most unnecessary self-inflicted wounds in modern history.” 

A spot check in central Athens has led to the arrest of two people for allegedly dealing in marijuana while possessing a couple of swords and a score of knives, police said Monday.

A European Parliament report, expected to be put to a vote on Wednesday, recommends sanctions against Turkish Justice Minister Akın Gurlek over his role in the case of former Istanbul mayor and leading opposition figure Ekrem Imamoglu, currently jailed.    

Water-bombing aircraft and ground forces were striving Monday to extinguish two wildfires in forests in the southern Peloponnese region and on the Aegean Sea island of Skopelos, the Fire Service said.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday discussed irregular migration and offshore exploration rights with the son of the de facto leader of eastern Libya during talks in Athens.

Greece’s Supreme Court has ordered 82-year-old Alexandros Giotopoulos, convicted leader of the now-defunct November 17 militant group, back to prison, overturning a recent ruling by the Piraeus Appeals Council that had granted him conditional release.

E-scooter riders accounted for nearly one in three fines levied for non-use of crash helmets nationwide in the second week of June, authorities said Monday.

Greece on Monday repaid its European peers €6.9 billion ‌from its first bailout loans earlier than ​planned, two sources told Reuters.

Inflationary pressure on the Greek economy is expected to intensify, driven mainly by rising energy prices, according to the latest inflation report by the Bank of Greece.

The Polish government has formally recognized the country’s Greek community as an ethnic minority, conveying rights including courses in Greek language, culture and history for minority children, Greece’s embassy in Warsaw said.