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Cyprus' Antiquities Department says a reliquary case containing the partial remains of nine Orthodox Christian saints that was stolen from a church in the ethnically split island's breakaway north has been returned to Church authorities.

Leading Greek carrier Aegean Air announced on Wednesday the addition of seven new destinations to its flight schedule for this year.

In this Aug. 11, 2009 file photo, defendant Adem Yılmaz reacts in a courtroom in Duesseldorf, western Germany. Yılmaz finished serving his sentence in October, 2018 stemming from a foiled plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany. (Ina Fassbender / Pool via AP)

Germany's highest administrative court in Leipzig will on Thursday decide the fate of 15 million diesel vehicles in the country when it rules on whether cities in Europe's largest car market can ban heavily polluting cars, reported Reuters.

A former German intelligence agent who was also an ex-gay porn actor was Tuesday given a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to share state secrets while pretending to be a jihadist online.

The 52-year-old named as Roque M., made headlines when he was arrested last November in what initially appeared to be a case of an Islamist mole at work in Germany’s domestic spy agency.

Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa said it would cancel nearly 900 flights on Nov. 23 because of a strike by pilots, causing travel disruptions for tens of thousands of passengers in the latest escalation of a long-simmering pay dispute.

Lufthansa flight Sofia-Frankfurt departing at 2 p.m. Sofia time (1200 GMT) has been cancelled  due to a strike at the German air carrier, Sofia Airport authorities announced on Friday.

The flight will take place at 7 a.m. on Saturday.

Frankfurt-Sofia flight scheduled for arrival at 8.15 p.m. on Friday will also be cancelled.

The co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings jet in the French Alps may have "rehearsed" steering the plane into a rapid descent on an earlier flight, German daily Bild reported May 6.

The second black box from the ill-fated Germanwings plane has been found, a French prosecutor said on Thursday.

Following a nine-day search, the flight data recorder has been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps, the prosecutor said, according to AFP news agency.

Lufthansa said March 31 it will cancel celebrations marking the German airline's 60th anniversary in the wake of last week's deadly crash of an Airbus jet from its low-cost subsidiary Germanwings.