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Operation Ben Needham: Five leads being investigated
Ben Needham, who went missing while on holiday on the isle of Kos on July 24, 1991, would be 25 today. Over the years, his mother Kerry Needham has not stopped searching for the son that vanished after she left him in his grandparents’ care while she went to work at a local hotel. Previous leads have failed to come up with solid information but Ben’s family still keeps hoping.
This week is make-or-break for Greece
An agonizing effort to keep itself afloat and avoid default while continuing to negotiate with its creditors may be coming to an end for Greece.
Amazon-styled FEMEN seeks to recruit Greek women
FEMEN Chief Ina Sevtsenko, the woman who posed topless in front of the Caryatid statues in Athens, states that the group is considering starting a chapter in Athens in an effort to get more Greek women involved in topless activism. The 24-year-old activist told Ethnos newspaper that in Greece it is easy to spot all the corrupt elements that make up the European dogma.
Parents want part of Thomas Cook’s compensation for their kids’ monoxide poisoning on Corfu
An inquest by Wakefield Coroner’s Court into the deaths of Bobby and Christi Sheherd, aged six and seven when they died while on a holiday to Corfu, found that tour operators Thomas Cook “breached their duty of care.” The children died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty boiler while on holiday in 2006.