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Why smugglers target Mediterranean coral: Greek authorities seize 800,000 euro red coral haul bound for Italy
Greece's financial crime authority and coast guard intercepted a chartered leisure boat off Skopelos carrying Italian nationals, as investigators now hunt for the smuggling ring's Italy-based recipients while marine biologists warn recovery could take centuries
Mystras: Lawyer says financial gain was not the motive for man who kept his dead father in a freezer
"He loved his parents pathologically," his lawyer claims, attributing the act to psychological reasons. He is being prosecuted for continuous fraud, classified as a misdemeanour offence
Damage assessments begin in Porto Germeno: seven teams record damage to homes after fire
The Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister, Evangelos Tournas, visited Porto Germeno this morning as damage assessment teams from the General Directorate for the Restoration of Natural Disaster Effects began their inspections
Afghan boxer requests and granted one day extension before testifying to investigative magistrate
Sharif Ahmadzai will be questioned in court today over the killing of Elizabeth Jane Ross, whose body was found in a suitcase in Kypseli, as investigators probe whether the pair knew each other through refugee support work and examine bank withdrawals and messages from her phone
Forensic examination to settle conflicting death timeline of elderly man whose son froze him to collect his pension
Police in Sparta have charged the son of the deceased with concealing his father's death in order to keep collecting his pension, as investigators now await forensic results to establish when and how the elderly man died
Rare German Second World War wreck discovered in the Ionian Sea, 83 years after it sank, see photos
The wreck is the Kriegsmarine's LS 6, identified after years of historical research and a technical dive to a depth of 96 metres off Preveza. It was found almost intact, in a discovery considered unique worldwide
