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82-year-old tortoise needs two vets to remove bladder stone 'bigger than a tennis ball'An 82-year-old tortoise from Cornwall has undergone major surgery to remove a bladder stone "bigger than a tennis ball".Joey the tortoise needed the expertise of two veterinary surgeons to safely remove the 150g mass through her shell.Tortoises heal slower than birds and mammals and their shells are like their skeleton so it will take over a year for Joey to fully recover.
Poverty threatens over 17% of Greeks: ELSTATOver 17.4% of Greece’s population is at risk of poverty when only the equivalent expenditure with the purchase mode of acquisition is considered in calculating the indicator (17.1% in 2021), according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).
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Poverty threatens over 17% of Greeks: ELSTATwhen only the equivalent expenditure with the purchase mode of acquisition is considered in calculating the indicator (17.1% in 2021)
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Greek pilot’s life imprisonment upheld for murdering wifeThe Mixed Jury Court of Appeal in Athens upheld the life imprisonment sentence for the Greek helicopter pilot who murdered his 19-year-old British wife, Caroline Crouch, a crime he tried to pin on merciless foreign robbers.Babis Anagnostopoulos, now 34, was also sentenced to 11.5 years in prison and fined 21,000 euros for strangling his wife’s puppy and obstructing justice.
Half a Ton of Cocaine Labelled with Nazi Swastikas Seized in Greece585 kilograms of cocaine from Latin America was seized by police in Thessaloniki, Greece and seven people suspected of being members of a criminal gang were arrested.The alleged ringleader of the gang, which had been under police surveillance, is a 50-year-old Albanian national and the gang included his wife, his two nieces, and three others.The gang was broken up after police stopped 21-year-old man in the city and found 239 packages of cocaine weighing 280 kg in total.Ten minutes later, in another part of the city, a 33-year-old man was apprehended after he tried to escape from police. He had tried to ram a police car and crashed into a school fence. A search of his vehicle yielded 238 packages of cocaine, weighing 277 kg in total.
Cyprus releases endangered vultures to boost populationConservationists in Cyprus released griffon vultures into the wild on Friday, in the latest attempt to boost a critically endangered population of the scavenger birds.Once thriving, the number of vultures on the east Mediterranean island is the smallest in Europe as accidental poisoning or changing farming techniques have left them short of food.Fourteen vultures from Spain were released into the hills north of the city of Limassol on Friday, bringing the vulture population now to “about” 29.
Bear cub shot dead in FlorinaConservation organisations have urged police to investigate the shooting of a bear cub in the Florina regional unit of northern Greece.A local farmer spotted the body of the young animal near Xino Nero and informed the forestry service. It had been shot in the abdomen and chest. The cub was only a few months old and had not been separated from its mother. Fresh traces of an adult animal, likely the cub’s mother, were found nearby. Environmental organizations Arktouros and Kallisto described the killing as another serious crime against biodiversity, noting that a year ago three more bears were killed in the same area by persons unknown.The brown bear is protected under Greek and EU legislation.
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Russian air defences shoot down their own top fighter jetRussian air defences have shot down one of the country’s most advanced fighter jets in a friendly fire incident, according to reports.Ukrainian channels claimed that a Russian S-300 missile had brought down the aircraft, which is believed to cost more than £35 million.
UK outspends rest of Europe on housing asylum seekers by at least 40% a personThe UK is spending 40% a person more than any other European country on housing asylum seekers with the costs taking up nearly a third of the official aid budget, which forced a 16.4% cut in the amount of aid spent overseas in 2022.The findings come in a report by One, the aid campaign, which argues the proportion of the aid budget being spent on housing refugees in the UK is totally out of sync with its neighbours and is making the British aid budget both unpredictable and unmanageable.
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British baked beans become reality after successful Lincolnshire harvestBritish-grown beans on toast is to become a reality after the first commercial crop of haricot beans was successfully harvested in Lincolnshire.The UK's farmers had previously been unable to grow the variety - used for baked beans - because it was unsuited to the country's climate.But University of Warwick scientists developed a specially adapted seed that can thrive in British soil. The country consumes around two million tins of baked beans a day, all of them made from haricot grown in other countries such as the US, Canada, Ethiopia and China.
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