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An appeals court in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, reduced a life sentence handed to a 58-year-old woman found guilty of murdering her former father-in-law, 85, with a frying pan in 2019 to 13 years. 

The ruling came as the court recognized that the woman had a history of mental health problems. 

Grigor Dimitrov has advanced to the quarterfinals of Roland Garros for the first time in his career. The top Bulgarian tennis player defeated world number 8 Hubert Hurkacz 7:6(5), 6:4, 7:6(3) in two hours and 51 minutes on the "Suzanne-Lenglen" court. This victory marks Dimitrov's sixth win in as many matches against the Pole.

President Joe Biden branded Donald Trump "reckless" Friday after the Republican lashed out in rambling, angry comments at verdicts in New York making him the first former U.S. president to become a convicted felon.

The dramatic climax to Trump's hush money trial came five months before the November 5 election, when the tycoon hopes to unseat Biden and make a shocking return to power.

The court in London's Wood Green district has handed down prison sentences ranging from 3 to 8 years for four Bulgarians involved in one of the largest welfare benefit frauds and money laundering schemes in the United Kingdom.

The Sofia Court of Appeal has made a final decision to release the infamous businessman and politican Vasil Bozhkov upon payment of 130,000 BGN, overturning his house arrest.

Initially, the city court had ruled more than a week ago that Bozhkov could be released under the same amount. The appellate judges have now confirmed this cash guarantee.

A trial related to the death of multiple patients at a nursing home in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, during the coronavirus pandemic had to be paused on Tuesday after a member of the court tested positive for the highly transmissible disease, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency has reported.

Panathinaikos has advanced to the final of the Euroleague, after comprehensively defeating Fenerbahce in the first semifinal on Friday, but its opponent will not be Olympiakos. The Reds lost to a superior Real Madrid that will defend its crown on Sunday in Berlin against the Greens.

Basketball's EuroLeague Final Four begins on Friday at the Uber Arena in Berlin with the participation of two Greek powerhouses, Panathinaikos and Olympiakos.

Panathinaikos, guided by Turkish coach Ergin Ataman, will face Turkey's Fenerbahce, before Olympiacos goes head to head with defending champion Real Madrid in a rematch of last season's final.

A Greek judge has dismissed a case against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union's border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor told the court Greece lacked jurisdiction.

Two Swedish teenagers faced a court on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes on Tuesday after attempting to take down the Greek flag from the front of a police station in what appears to have been a social media stunt.