Katerina Nikolas
Digital Journalist based in Kalamatas, Greece, Greece.
Joined on Sep 4, 2011
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The recent conviction of a child exploitation grooming gang in Oxford was only the latest in a string of such cases. Now police have revealed at least another 54 grooming gangs are under investigation across England and Wales.
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London -
The House of Commons has voted in favour of the same sex marriage bill, paving the way for gay marriage in England and Wales. A proposal to allow civil partnerships to be extended to heterosexual couples was rejected.
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A Slovenian philosopher and ardent supporter of the Greek extreme left political party SYRIZA has suggested that to ensure a democratic future all those who do not support SYRIZA should be given one-way tickets to the gulag.
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A waitress at an Indianapolis Steak ‘N Shake restaurant was shocked to receive a generous tip of $446 tip from a regular customer, on a bill of just $5.97.
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Two armed robbers who held up the National Bank of Greece in Larissa on Thursday and made off with €1 million euros, have been identified as two of the Albanian prisoners who escaped from Trikala prison in March.
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The familiar jug of olive oil is set to disappear from restaurant tables across the EU from January 1 2014, to be replaced with properly labelled non-reusable containers with tamper proof nozzles.
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Ouch! A drunk man went to extraordinary painful lengths to end an argument with his girlfriend by cutting off his penis and testicles with a pair of scissors, and flushing them down the toilet.
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Kuala Lumpur -
A Malaysian couple has been sentenced to 24 years in jail after being found guilty of starving their 23-year-old Cambodian housemaid to death.
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Timmins -
Scientists have discovered ancient pockets of water thought to be at least 1.5 billion years old, deep underground in a zinc and copper mine in Canada.
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The Saudi owner of an Algerian ship hijacked by Somali pirates in 2011 has admitted paying a ransom of $2.6 million. The crew were released after 10 months when the cash ransom was parachuted to the pirates.
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The parents of the teenage Greek girl who was brutally raped and assaulted by a Pakistani illegal immigrant on the island of Paros last summer, have appealed for funds to help with specialised rehabilitation in the U.S.
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Athens -
Market stall vendors staging a 24-hour-strike in Greece on Wednesday, set up their stalls in Athens to hand out 20 tons of free food.
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Ron Paul has laid the blame for the Benghazi attack on U.S. interventionism foreign policy, accusing both Republicans and Democrats of playing a political blame game.
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Heraklion -
An 11-year-old child is critically ill with multiple stab wounds whilst on holiday in the Greek island of Crete. A 20-year-old Dutch hotel employee has allegedly confessed to the attack.
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The Syrian rebel commander branded a "cannibal" after video footage emerged of him biting into a dead regime soldier's heart, has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities.
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Lucknow -
The world's oldest female prisoner, Ram Kali, 107, died in Bulandshahr jail on Sunday. She was one of hundreds of aged prisoners incarcerated in India's Uttar Pradesh region.
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Osaka -
A prominent Japanese politician has defended the forced use of "comfort women" by Japan's military during WWII as necessary to maintain discipline in the army. His remarks risk inflaming tensions with the country's Asian neighbours.
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Popular support for the European Union has fallen dramatically in the last year according to the latest study from Pew Research. Overall support has declined from 60 to 45 percent, with only Germany showing favourable support for the EU.
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Dubai -
In 2008 a young Australian woman was drugged and gang-raped by three co-workers whilst working in a luxury Dubai hotel. Upon reporting the rape she was imprisoned for engaging in illicit sex.
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Riyadh -
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a Lebanese man who helped a Saudi woman to flee the country and convert to Christianity, to six years in prison and 300 lashes.
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