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Norway mourns hero who sabotaged Nazis' nuclear projectJoachim Rønneberg, who has died aged 99, led team that blew up heavy water factoryNorway is mourning the saboteur Joachim Rønneberg, who led a five-man team that daringly blew up a factory producing heavy water, depriving Nazi Germany of a key ingredient it could have used to make nuclear weapons.Rønneberg, then 23, was recruited by the Special Operations Executive, or SOE — Britain’s wartime intelligence gathering and sabotage unit — to destroy parts of the heavily guarded plant in Telemark, southern Norway, in a raid in February 1943.Operation Gunnerside has been recounted in books, documentaries, films and TV series, including The Heroes of Telemark (1965), starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris.
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Shipowner arrested in Piraeus after clash with policemenA shipowner, his son and a woman were arrested late Monday night following a scuffle with policemen in Piraeus, over a dog they left alone in a car.Officers who arrived at the scene sought the owner of the car, the 62-year-old shipowner. When he arrived, he started quarrelling intensely with police.The man and his 31-year-old son were arrested for resisting authority, bodily injury and insult, while the 47-year-old woman for violating animal laws.
Unpaid bills generate cash crisis across the local electricity sectorThe specter of a financial blackout haunts Greece’s electricity market, as Public Power Corporation (PPC) and the country’s 17 alternative suppliers are trying to plug a hole of more than 800 million euros.
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