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An appeals court in Western Macedonia on Thursday reversed a sentence imposed on seven former and current executives of state-run power utility PPC over a huge landslide at a lignite mine in the region of Kozani in 2017, which forced the evacuation of a nearby village.

Prominent criminal lawyer Apostolos Lytras handed himself in to Pallini Police Department on Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued by judicial authorities. The warrant followed the lifting of previously imposed restraining orders after Lytras' violent assault on his wife, Sofia Polyzogopoulou.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a criminal lawyer accused of brutally beating his wife, following his breach of restraining orders.

Russia said Wednesday it was waiting for the United States to respond to its propositions regarding a prisoner swap, days before U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich was set to face trial in Russia.

Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested in March 2023 on espionage charges rejected by his family, employer and the White House as false.

Turkish counter-terrorism units have apprehended a relative of former ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the central province of Kırşehir.

The security forces initiated the operation, acting on intelligence that a relative of al-Baghdadi, who has been engaged in terrorist activities on behalf of the organization, was in Kırşehir.

The EU's top court fined Hungary 200 million euros ($216 million) and imposed a daily one-million-euro penalty for failing to follow the bloc's asylum laws and illegally deporting migrants.

The testimony of a 37-year-old convicted child molester, who is facing murder and rape charges after allegedly confessing to killing an 11-year-old girl in Ilia in the western Peloponnese, has been postponed to Friday. 

Dozens of people who had gathered on Tuesday outside the court house in the town of Pyrgos, in southwestern Greece, attacked a man accused of killing an 11-year-old girl. 

As the police car carrying the 37-year-old suspect approached the court house, a crowd stormed towards the car and scuffled with the police officers, who tried to repel them. Eventually, the police car drove off. 

Search and rescue teams have wrapped up their operations at a landslide-hit gold mine in the eastern province of Erzincan as they recovered the body of the last worker trapped underground.

The mother of a Dutch woman who died in Istanbul two days after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift and tummy tuck operation has filed a lawsuit against the doctor and hospital, seeking 404,000 liras in compensation.