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The International Court of Arbitration has ruled against Iran in its gas dispute with Turkey, Shana news agency quoted the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company, Hamid-Reza Araqi, as saying Feb. 2.

The trial of four men accused of torturing an Egyptian bakery worker on the island of Salamina in the summer of 2012 is to resume on April 30 after the victim, Walid Talb, and several witnesses gave their testimonies on Tuesday.

Talb was 29 years old when he was found by passers-by on Salamina, chained and beaten near the bakery where he worked.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic Wednesday called for releasing Citizens' Initiative 'Freedom, Democracy, Justice' (SDP) leader Oliver Ivanovic and three other Serbs from detention in Kosovska Mitrovica pending a verdict.

A council of misdemeanor court judges has issued an indictment for 21 suspects to stand trial in connection with an attack on a gold mine in Skouries, Halkidiki, in February 2013.

Istanbul is making a bid to become a regional leader in the trillion-dollar business of legal arbitration, used for major corporate litigation or disputes between sovereign states.

Arbitration provides an alternative to years of expensive litigation in courts.

Municipalities and private companies may soon get a chance to take over abandoned or empty buildings if a new bill drafted by the Environment Ministry is voted through Parliament.

Health Minister Makis Voridis on Tuesday heralded tougher penalties for offenses in the health sector, noting that instances of blackmail or bribery that are normally categorized as misdemeanors would be treated as felonies if they are committed in the health sector.

A 32-year-old man faced a prosecutor in Kalamata, in the Peloponnese, on Wednesday on charges of causing grievous bodily harm after he shot a friend, 43, while the pair had been hunting in the region of Kalohori.

The pair had been hunting wild boar when the younger man accidentally injured his friend with two shots, to the stomach and collarbone.

The Prosecutor's Office said on Monday that it would complain about the state court's decision not to remand the suspects in the so-called ‘Gibraltar' case in custody.

"The prosecutor will also demand a temporary measure - the sequestration of all the suspects' property, their movable and immovable property and the freezing of their accounts during the [legal] process," it said.

An Athens court on Thursday postponed the trial of Golden Dawn’s Ilias Kasidiaris over charges of attempted grievous bodily harm to December 12. The postponement was due to industrial action called by court secretaries.

The case centered on charges brought against Kasidiaris by Greek Communist Party (KKE) deputy Liana Kanelli, following a televised brawl on June 2012.