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Crete: Returning officer goes missing along with bag of votesAuthorities on Crete have said that the returning officer from one polling station is missing, along with the bag containing the votes cast.As a result, the count for the Iraklio constituency is incomplete.Regional officials said they would continue in their efforts to trace the returning officer, expressing the hope that he is in good health.
Greek PM eyes new poll on June 25 after failing to win majorityGreek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose party won Sunday's election albeit short of a majority, said on Monday he would not form a coalition government and hoped for a new election on June 25.Mitsotakis made the comments to President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who formally offered him an opportunity to form a coalition under the constitution.
22 May 337 - Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome (306-37) dies at 47Constantine is famous for founding the city of Constantinople (present day Istanbul) originally known as Byzantium.He is also known for his role in ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire and for converting to Christianity himself. Constantine's conversion to Christianity had a significant impact on the religion's growth and recognition within the empire.
Explaining the 'how' - the launch of BBC VerifyIn the early hours of Wednesday 3 May, video footage emerged showing what appeared to be two drones crashing into a dome of the Kremlin complex in Moscow. But was the video real or fake? Did this "attack" actually happen? And how could we tell?
Madeleine McCann: Police to search Portuguese reservoir - local reportsPolice investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are to carry out searches at a reservoir in Portugal.A search of the Arade dam will begin on Tuesday, 50km from where the toddler went missing in Praia da Luz in 2007.Christian Brueckner, 45, was made a formal suspect, or an "arguido", by Portuguese prosecutors in 2022.The search was requested by German police as the area was visited by Brueckner when Madeleine, then three years old, disappeared.
Maverick party picks up just one voteOne of the 36 parties and alliances that contested Sunday’s election received just one vote.With 99.7 percent of votes counted, the Greek Ecologists party of veteran election maverick Dimosthenis Vergis picked up a single ballot, in his own constituency of Athens I.Election observers expressed surprise that the fringe party did not pick up a second vote, given that its leader’s wife, Svetlana Lisagor Vergis, was also a candidate in the same constituency.