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Chania: Japanese tourists abandon baby inside car despite blistering heat A baby was found crying in a locked car in Chania, in danger of dying from heatstroke. However, the intervention of the police forces saved the infant's life.The incident happened shortly before 8:30 on Sunday night when police officers were alerted to rush to the old Xenia in the western moat in Chania. Inside a locked car was a crying baby, reports Para Kritika.The police were forced to break the window of the vehicle and take the child out, which, according to witnesses, was locked for some time.After a while, his parents, who had gone for a walk in the Venetian Harbour with their other child, also arrived at the scene. The couple from Japan was taken to the police department for exposing a minor to danger.
Easyjet cancels 1,700 flights from July to SeptemberThe airline has axed flights during July, August and September, travelling to and from Gatwick airport.Easyjet blamed constrained airspace over Europe and ongoing air traffic control difficulties, which are causing regular cancellations.The company said 95% of affected passengers had been rebooked onto alternative flights.
Greek shipwreck: hi-tech investigation suggests coastguard responsible for sinkingResearch into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with
Tory lord blasts ‘significant sizeable wing’ of party as ‘completely and utterly insane’
Greek PM says not fair to manage EU migration problem aloneGreece should not be burdened with the task of managing migration for the European Union, or be accused of not saving people at sea, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, a month after a deadly shipwreck.
Four wild deer spotted by my colleague Panayiotis early this morning up near the airport, a doe and three fawn. A few years ago I spotted one near Sissia early one morning. Escapees from the farm near Lidl?Hope the hunters don't get them.
Transparent mouse could improve cancer drug testsA new scanning method involving a see-through mouse could improve how cancer drugs are tested, by picking up tumours previously too small to detect.Prof Ali Ertürk of the Helmholtz Munich research centre worked out how to make a dead mouse transparent in 2018.His team have now used chemicals to highlight specific tissues so that they can be scanned in unprecedented detail.Drugs are often tested first on mice. Scientists say the new scanning method could revolutionise medical research.
Elderly man detained after shooting three minorsA 70-year-old man in Halkidiki in northern Greece has been placed in temporary custody after appearing before an investigative magistrate on Monday accused of shooting and injuring three minors with a shotgun after a verbal altercation in the region of Olympiada.
New Identity Cards coming in SeptemberThe new identity cards in the size of a credit card will be issued from mid-September.