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Lawmakers attend the first session of a special parliamentary committee set up to investigate alleged corruption in the health sector in the 1997-2014 period, in Athens, on Wednesday.

The vice president of New Democracy, Adonis Georgiadis, said on Monday that he "welcomed" an investigation into corruption at the Henry Dunant Hospital in Athens.

Swiss voters on Feb. 12 approved making it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens, dismissing suggestions that the move could pose a security threat, as reported by Reuters. 

Projections by broadcaster SRF after polls closed showed the measure easily winning by a 59-41 percent margin. 

A former director at a hospital belonging to the Red Cross in Athens was returned to pretrial custody Wednesday by a corruption prosecutor after testifying at a hearing over his alleged provision of free medical care to prominent and wealthy people.

Greek politicians on Monday paid their respects to Constantinos Stephanopoulos, a veteran conservative politician who served two terms as president of Greece from 1995-2005, after his death on Sunday aged 90.

A statement from the Henry Dunant Hospital said Stephanopoulos was admitted Thursday and died at 11:18 p.m. (2118 GMT) from "complications of pneumonia."

Conservative politician Costis Stephanopoulos, who served as Greek President between 1995 and 2005, has died. He was 90.

Stephanopoulos had been admitted to Henry Dunant hospital in Athens on Tuesday with a diagnosis of acute respiratory infection.

Doctors said he died at 11.18 p.m. on Sunday as a result of damage to multiple organ systems.

The former director of the Henry Dunant Hospital in northern Athens was remanded yesterday after testifying for more than three hours in connection with accusations that he laundered 3.2 million deutschemark he had received nearly two decades ago as a bribe from a German hospital outfitter.

A meeting was held on Thursday at the Maximos Mansion between the Minister of State Nikos Pappas, the official responsible for combating corruption Panagiotis Nikoloudis and the Swiss State Secretary for International Financial and Tax Matters in the FDF Jacques De Watteville, in order to discuss ways to check if money exported to Swiss banks was legally taxed.

In its 10th anniversary, the Suna and ?nan K?raç Foundation Pera Museum is presenting an exhibition of selected works by world-renowned Alberto Giacometti The Suna and ?nan K?raç Foundation Pera Museum is hosting the first major exhibition of Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in Turkey, featuring a retrospective approach of the artist's decades of work.

In its 10th anniversary, the Suna and ?nan K?raç Foundation Pera Museum is presenting an exhibition of selected works by world-renowned Alberto Giacometti The Suna and ?nan K?raç Foundation Pera Museum is hosting the first major exhibition of Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in Turkey, featuring a retrospective approach of the artist's decades of work.