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Funeral parlour refused to refrigerate the body of a man without payment while his penniless sister waited for welfare offices to open on Tuesday to get the funds to bury him. An Athens women who had no means to bury her brother has spoken of the ordeal of having to keep his decomposing corpse in her sweltering apartment over the weekend while waiting for welfare offices to open on Tuesday. Olga Nikolaidou, 61, told Eleftherotypia that after her brother Stathis, 64, died at home at 9pm on Saturday, she was unable to find a funeral parlour willing to refrigerate the corpse without payment. Owing to the public holiday on Monday, welfare offices were closed until Tuesday…More
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All 167 people – mostly Israeli tourists – on board the HRM 7321 flight from Irakleio in Crete are safe and well at Tel Aviv, the plane’s original destination – A Greek charter plane landed safely in Tel Aviv without anyone being hurt on Thursday after issuing a rare mayday call on its approach to Israel’s Ben Gurion international airport. The Hermes Airline plane, en route from Kazantzakis international airport, in the Crete city of Irakleio, to Tel Aviv, had apparently suffered a hydraulic problem around noon and was forced to take measures for an emergency landing…More
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Decision to release Kostas Sakkas on bail comes a day after a doctor monitoring his health said he is at the ‘final stage’ of life, having completed 37 days on hunger strike. A court of judges in Athens has ordered the conditional release pending trial of an anarchist hunger striker who is on his 38th day of protest against being kept on remand for more than the constitutional limit. The court said Kostas Sakkas, 29, who is facing terrorism-related charges, could be released on bail of €30,000 Read the rest of this entry »
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