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The lawyers for two Albanian MPs, Tom Doshi and Mark Frroku, who were arrested on Thursday on charges of faking testimonies, have filed briefs with Albania's Supreme Court seeking their immediate release.

The lawyers said the arraignment orders signed by General Prosecutor Adriatik Llala were illegal and out of line with the criminal procedural code.

Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government has no intention of seizing the Goethe Institute. He made this statement on Thursday during a meeting with representatives of the relatives of victims of Nazi atrocities committed in the town of Distomo during WWII.

In the early 1990s, Turkey started to generously buy off-the-shelf arms from foreign manufacturers who had happily discovered an emerging but potentially lucrative market.

Britain's top court on March 26 overruled the government to allow the publication of a series of letters from Prince Charles to ministries, in a potential setback for the heir to the throne.
      

In a 97-to-48 secret vote with 5 votes cancelled, the Senate plenum approved on Wednesday the taking into custody and placement under preventive detention of the former Finance Minister, Senator Darius Valcov in an influence peddling case.

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Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos denied on Tuesday the government was planning to seize German assets as compensation for a Nazi atrocities during World War II.

?No Greek citizen would want the confiscation of a historic educational/cultural institute like the Goethe [Institute in Athens],? Paraskevopoulos said in a statement.

At a press conference in the southeastern town of Strumica on Wednesday, the opposition Social Democratic party, SDSM presented more tapes that point to election fraud on the part of government officials and their associates.

Civil unions between same-sex couples are groundless, Supreme Court judge Haralambos Maheras said in a decision addressed to the court?s political department on Monday.

The judge said the Supreme Court should uphold a previous ruling by an appeals court nullifying the marriage of two women by the former municipal authority on the island of Tilos in the summer of 2008.

Lawyers representing relatives of victims of Nazi Second World War atrocities have told Kathimerini that they have no intention of enforcing a 2000 court decision allowing German state property, such as the Goethe Institute, to be confiscated to recover damages.

Another of the deputy chairs of Bulgaria's Sofia City Court (SGS) - judge Nikolay Dimov resigned due to personal reasons.

Dimov, who was in charge of the administrative department, deposited his resignation at the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) on Thursday, daily Sega reports.