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To Kafeneion => Grapevine / News Briefs => Topic started by: Maik on Friday, 18 March, 2016 @ 02:28:30
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Ex-mayor held for people smuggling
Nine people, including a former mayor of Mesolongi, a pilot and two Iraqi nationals, were arrested on Wednesday for transporting stranded refugees from a flying club in western Greece to Italy on a light single engine aircraft.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/207075/article/ekathimerini/news/ex-mayor-held-for-people-smuggling
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Scientist beheaded by her husband to 'protect her from dancers on The X Factor'
Timothy Allen sectioned indefinitely for killing Samantha Ho because he believed dancers on ITV show were trying to get to them, court hears
Timothy Allen, 40, killed his scientist wife Samantha Ho, 39, at their Cambridgeshire home as they watched an episode of the singing competition programme on the August bank holiday weekend last year.
Allen, who had long-standing psychiatric problems stemming back to a motorbike accident a decade earlier, told police that he believed the dancers were “puppets” being controlled by a puppet master who was coming to get him, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Ms Ho made a “harrowing and upsetting” call to the police in concern after her husband tried to cut his own throat. When officers arrived, they found Allen bare chested, covered in blood and repeatedly stabbing the couple's border collie, Cherry.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12196622/Scientist-Samantha-Ho-beheaded-by-husband-to-protect-her-from-X-Factor-dancers.html
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
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'Druid healer' called in by Brittany villages lacking doctors
Mayors of six villages give 'ancestral healer' a town hall office after failing to convince a doctor to move to rural area on the coast of western France
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12197166/Druid-healer-called-in-by-Brittany-villages-lacking-doctors.html
No idea what the earning potential for a doctor would be but, jeez, what a dreadful place to live :iroll:
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Britain's highest mountain taller than previously thought
New Ordnance Survey calculation puts Ben Nevis’s height at 1,345m - one metre higher than when it was last surveyed in 1949
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/18/ben-nevis-britain-highest-mountain-taller
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Hidden rooms at tomb of Tutankhamun raise hopes of new treasures
Radar scans reveal two chambers adjoining boy pharaoh’s tomb, raising prospect of finding the resting place of Queen Nefertiti
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/17/hidden-rooms-tutankhamun-tomb-new-treasures-queen-nefertiti
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Warrior king uncovered at east Yorkshire iron age settlement
The well-preserved remains were unearthed at a 2,500-year-old site in Pocklington, described as being of international significance
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/17/warrior-king-uncovered-yorkshire-iron-age-settlement
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Cats 'sprayed with acid' in series of attacks in Paris suburb
Leader of local stray cat association said: 'I have all the photos of the cats who were burned – it is not a pretty sight'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-cat-acid-attacks-a6936696.html
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Firefox 45.0.1 due for release sometime around about now. As usual, should auto-update (when you shut down and re-open Firefox), download will be available from https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
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Appears as though the Interior Minister, Yiannis Balafas, contacted local municipalities and regions across Greece on 16/03/16 asking if they can identify facilities suitable for refugees. Seems to be a request, not an imposition and was sent by email, not a signed letter. So could be another hoax.
Edit: As yet haven't been able to find any mention of this in any of the English-language Greek media sites.
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Large rise in German bookings for Greek islands
http://en.protothema.gr/greek-bookings-from-german-tourists-record-high-increase/
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Mission 'impawsible': 22-year-old's journey from Syria...with her cat Tabbous
In the tent city at Idomeni, there is a tale (or possibly tail?) that's stranger than most. Peeping out from inside his tent, the fastidious four-footed traveller refuses to step outside into the mud to greet us.
Tabbous has followed 22-year-old Esra al-Aboud all the way from Damascus in Syria, making the perilous crossing over the sea, but he's still not very fond of water.
"We couldn't leave him behind. He's a part of our family. How could we leave him behind," Esra said, explaining her decision to bring Tabbous with her on the difficult journey.
http://www.amna.gr/english/article/13245/Mission-impawsible:-22-year-olds-journey-from-Syria...with-her-cat-Tabbous
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London parking space goes on sale for £350,000
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/london-parking-space-goes-on-sale-for-350000/
Bank of Ireland fears London’s housing market is overheating
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/17/bank-of-ireland-fears-londons-housing-market-is-overheating/
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Flying Scotsman hit by drone on North York Moors
Passengers terrified by 'huge bang' when drone hit rear carriage of newly restored train on preserved railway tracks between Grosmont and Pickering
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/12196992/Flying-Scotsman-hit-by-drone-on-North-York-Moors.html
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Sony has announced that in March... it will stop producing Betamax video cassette tapes, forty years after its introduction and 28 years after losing the war to VHS.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/10/betamax-dead-long-live-vhs-sony-end-prodution
Had no idea Betamax tapes were still produced!