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Bizarre feud in Greek rugby league as modern pentathlon body controls sportThe Greek Rugby League Association (GRLA) say they may be forced to host a World Cup qualifier in England due to a bizarre situation which has seen the country's modern pentathlon body take control of the sport.Greece are due to play Scotland in Athens in November but, despite being a completely different sport, the Hellenic Federation of Modern Pentathlon (HFMP) has been recognised by the Government as the body which runs rugby league.Officials at the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF), which does recognise the GRLA, have described the situation as "baffling".
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British scientist killed by fall, expert saysA 34-year-old British scientist who was found dead at the bottom of a steep ravine on Wednesday on the eastern Aegean island of Ikaria, most probably died as a result of a fall rather than foul play, an expert said on Thursday.
British parents holidaying on Crete accused of abuse by teenage sonA prosecutor on the Greek island of Crete was to question a British couple in their on Thursday over claims of abuse by their 14-year-old son.The couple was taken into custody by police who were called to the hotel where the family of three was staying in the region of Iraklio, after guests complained of loud and violent arguments emanating from their room.According to local media, the couple's 14-year-old adopted son told police dispatched to the hotel that he was being verbally and physically abused by his parents.The husband and wife, who have been identified only as being aged 57 and 58 years old respective, dismissed the claims as histrionics on the boy's part because they refused to buy him a new cellphone after his got broken.
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Bus packed with tourists caught fire in GreeceA tourist bus caught fire in a tunnel near the city of Kozani in northern Greece, according to Kozanilife.No one got injured in the incident, however, the bus itself burned to the ground. Reportedly, there were several dozens of people on the bus, including children.
Iraqi man dies after Trump administration deports himA 41-year-old Detroit man deported to Iraq in June died Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and two people close to the man’s family.The man, Jimmy Aldaoud, spent most of his life in the U.S., but was swept up in President Donald Trump’s intensified immigration enforcement efforts.Edward Bajoka, an immigration attorney who described himself as close to Aldaoud’s family, wrote on Facebook that the death appeared to be linked to the man’s inability to obtain insulin in Baghdad to treat his diabetes. Aldaoud was an Iraqi national, but he was born in Greece and came to the U.S. as a young child, his family friend said. He had never lived in Iraq and did not speak Arabic, according to Bajoka.The Trump administration has sought to deport more than 1,000 Iraqis with final orders of removal, including Chaldean Catholics in the Detroit metro area, of which Aldaoud was one. Chaldeans are an eastern branch of the Roman Catholic church who trace their roots to ancient Mesopotamia in present-day Iraq, where they are at high risk of being tortured or killed by the the terror group ISIS.Aldaoud spoke about his deportation in an undated video posted to Facebook this week. In the video, he appears to be sitting on a sidewalk stoop in Baghdad.“Immigration agents pulled me over and said I’m going to Iraq,” he said. “I said, ‘I’ve never been there. I’ve been in this country my whole life, since pretty much birth.’ … They refused to listen to me.”Aldaoud said in the video that he had been homeless, vomiting because of a lack of access to insulin and unable to speak the language in Iraq. He also said he had been kicked while sleeping in the street.“I begged them,” he said of his conversations with ICE agents. “I said, ‘Please, I’ve never seen that country, I’ve never been there.’ However, they forced me.”
German Ambassador Marks Site of Nazis Kalavyrta MassacreNewly appointed German Ambassador to Greece Ernst Reichel went to the Achaia mountain town of Kalavryta on Aug. 7, the site of a massacre by the Nazis in World War II, to show his respects, and also regrets at what his country had done.“Today in Kalavryta, I paid tribute to the hundreds of villagers massacred by German occupants in WWII,” Reichel said in a post on Twitter, along with a photograph of him in front of a memorial to the estimated 1,200 townsfolk who were killed in reprisal executions on Dec. 13, 1943.“This is only one small part of the horror and grief Nazi Germany brought over Greece, and all of Europe,” added Reichel, who took up the post of German Ambassador in Athens last month.
Two more deaths from West Nile VirusTwo more people died from the West Nile Virus in the week that ended on August 8, according to the a weekly report by the National Health Organization (EODY), published on Thursday, bringing the total number for this year to four.Both victims were both over the age of 80.The report, which did not say where the deaths were recorded, stated that the number of confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne infection this year has risen to 35.
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QuoteIraqi man dies after Trump administration deports himA 41-year-old Detroit man deported to Iraq in June died Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and two people close to the man’s family.The man, Jimmy Aldaoud, spent most of his life in the U.S., but was swept up in President Donald Trump’s intensified immigration enforcement efforts.Edward Bajoka, an immigration attorney who described himself as close to Aldaoud’s family, wrote on Facebook that the death appeared to be linked to the man’s inability to obtain insulin in Baghdad to treat his diabetes. Aldaoud was an Iraqi national, but he was born in Greece and came to the U.S. as a young child, his family friend said. He had never lived in Iraq and did not speak Arabic, according to Bajoka.The Trump administration has sought to deport more than 1,000 Iraqis with final orders of removal, including Chaldean Catholics in the Detroit metro area, of which Aldaoud was one. Chaldeans are an eastern branch of the Roman Catholic church who trace their roots to ancient Mesopotamia in present-day Iraq, where they are at high risk of being tortured or killed by the the terror group ISIS.Aldaoud spoke about his deportation in an undated video posted to Facebook this week. In the video, he appears to be sitting on a sidewalk stoop in Baghdad.“Immigration agents pulled me over and said I’m going to Iraq,” he said. “I said, ‘I’ve never been there. I’ve been in this country my whole life, since pretty much birth.’ … They refused to listen to me.”Aldaoud said in the video that he had been homeless, vomiting because of a lack of access to insulin and unable to speak the language in Iraq. He also said he had been kicked while sleeping in the street.“I begged them,” he said of his conversations with ICE agents. “I said, ‘Please, I’ve never seen that country, I’ve never been there.’ However, they forced me.”https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/iraqi-man-dies-deportation-trump-administration-1643512
Brit who moaned about 'filthy' Zante hotel is 'told to "get off her fat ass" to clean'Portia Nancarrow, from Ebbw Vale, south Wales, says she splashed out £1,000 for the working holiday in Zante, Greece, with Workers Family
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Greece green lights 26 medicinal cannabis licencesGreece has approved 26 licences for cannabis cultivation and processing facilities in the country, the government has confirmed.
Cycle cafe locked in row with council after it bans cycling clubs from stopping thereA cycle cafe is at war with a local council after it banned cycling clubs from stopping there before, during or after rides.The Velolife Cafe, in the small Berkshire hamlet of Warren Row on the edge of the Chilterns, has been banned from allowing groups of cyclists to gather there after the residents of a neighbouring cottage complained about “noise and disturbance”.The decision prompted outrage from members of the cycling community, including Chris Lawless, a member of Team Ineos, who branded it “a joke”.Chris Boardman, the former Olympic cyclist, wrote on Twitter: “This isn’t motorcycle gangs, drunks or even noisy people, it’s mostly middle aged people getting some exercise with their friends.”
QuoteGreece green lights 26 medicinal cannabis licencesGreece has approved 26 licences for cannabis cultivation and processing facilities in the country, the government has confirmed.https://prohibitionpartners.com/2019/08/09/greece-green-lights-26-medicinal-cannabis-licences/
QuoteIntroducing xinomavro, the Greek grape that makes gorgeous, graceful wine https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/wine/introducing-xinomavro-greek-grape-makes-gorgeous-graceful-wine/
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