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Greece floods: Austrian honeymooners killed after holiday home swept awayAn Austrian couple on their honeymoon in Greece are confirmed to have died after torrential rains swept away the house they were staying in.Their holiday home in the resort of Potistika, near Mount Pelion, was washed into the sea by flash floods brought by Storm Daniel on 6 September.Although the pair have not been named, the Austrian foreign ministry said DNA tests had verified their identities.
Greece to raise hotel tax to support climate disaster funds Greece plans to double its budget backstop for natural disasters linked to climate change by increasing a levy on accommodation, mostly luxury hotel stays, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.The government will fund the increase by raising a hospitality levy by between €1 and €6 per night, he said.Mr Mitsotakis also announced:* Ten measures to fight tax evasion, including that any purchase or sale of homes will have to be done through banks, not cash* Those who rent three or more properties on short-term lease platforms will have to pay value-added tax and all taxes paid by hotels* The end of special taxation on Greek bonds in a bid to make them an alternative for depositors* A 50 per cent cut in the financial transaction tax
Default speed limit becomes 20mph across Wales as landmark law comes into forceWales has become one of the first places in the world - and the first country in the UK - to introduce a new law that sets a default speed limit of 20mph on its roads.The legislation will see 30mph roads reduced to 20 where cars mix with pedestrians and cyclists. It is thought around 13,000km of road will be affected.
Elderly man shoots dead another man in PiraeusA man shot dead another man in Piraeus on Friday afternoon in Piraeus. According to what is known so far, the attacker, an elderly man shot his victim in the head outside a parking lot at 147 Praxitelous Street. The victim was an employee of the business and according to reports the two men had frequent arguments.According to the report, the altercation started in the parking lot, and at one point, the 68-year-old assailant shot him once in the head but then returned and shot him a second time to finish him off.Immediately after the incident the armed man, 68 years old, “barricaded himself” in his house on Alkiviadou Street but then surrendered to the Greek Police.
‘People feel unprotected’: Greeks lose faith in state after Storm Daniel and a summer of wildfiresThe whiff of death permeates the once fertile plain of Thessaly. Thirteen days may have elapsed since Storm Daniel pummelled Greece – a prelude to the fatal descent it would make on Libya – but even now, as the flood waters slowly recede, families bury loved ones and the authorities begin to catalogue the scale of the destruction, it is clear the agricultural heart of the country has been devastated beyond recognition.What remains is a broken land, rain-sodden and bruised, covered with the detritus of all that fell foul of the storm, animate and inanimate, fish, birds, bees, dogs, cats, livestock, buildings, bridges and roads.This weekend, Greek soldiers in masks and protective suits were frantically collecting carcasses for mass incineration. More than 200,000 animals perished in the storms, officials say, and with fears of outbreaks of infectious disease, there is a race against time to remove putrefying remains from farms and pens in areas frequently described as impassable.“The stench is unbearable,” one reporter told viewers on state-run television. “And it hangs over Thessaly.”At least 17 people lost their lives in floods whose waters continue to submerge fields of cotton and corn, villages and towns in a thick layer of mud and sludge.
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