ATHENS – After finding the former mayor of the town of Mandra and eight public workers and officials guilty of manslaughter by negligence in a 2017 flood that killed 25 people, a court acquitted the former governor of Attica, Rena Dourou.
She was serving the then-ruling Radical Left SYRIZA but was cleared along with 12 other defendants, including workers from the forestry, town planning service and stream clearing services over the catastrophe.
There was no report why the three-judge panel made the decision after evidence and claims that failure to clear areas allowed rainwater to mass and create the deadly flood that also caused widespread damage.
Dourou, who had been accused as well of dereliction of duty, is also facing charges over her response to the July 23, 2018 wildfires that killed 102 people and nearly wiped out the seaside village of Mati northeast of the Greek capital.
ATHENS - The draft tax bill constitutes "an important reform for social justice," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday in Parliament, during the debate on the finance ministry's bill "Measures to limit tax evasion.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
BCHARRE, Lebanon (AP) — Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel hidden in a mountain forest to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, the miracle where Jesus Christ, on a mountaintop, shined with light before his disciples.
Over 144 million people flocked to art museums around the world in 2022.
NEW YORK — Jonathan Majors' former girlfriend testified Tuesday that the actor was prone to fits of explosive rage, an escalating pattern that she said ultimately led to her assault in the backseat of a car and his career-halting arrest this past spring.
LONDON — You won't see Tom Hanks on one of those space tourism flights that whisk celebrities and millionaires on a suborbital jaunt for a few hours.
LONDON — The generative AI boom has sent governments worldwide scrambling to regulate the emerging technology, but it also has raised the risk of upending a European Union push to approve the world's first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules.
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