First Crew Member Of Seized Greek Tankers In Iran Returns Home-sources

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"Our country´s workers, both in the public and in the private sectors, are battling against the high prices that are strangling households and citizens," ADEDY, a confederation of trade unions for civil servants, said in a statement.

This extortion generates annual profits equivalent to $737 million for the gangs, nearly 3% of the country's gross domestic product, according to the Association for a More Just Society, a security-focused non-governmental organization. (Reporting by Gustavo Palencia, editing by Deepa Babington)

He said he had been unaware of the human rights issues in Qatar until the World Cup threw a spotlight on them but believed things had improved there because of the focus the tournament brought upon the country.

Castro's new measures would allow the suspension of some constitutional rights in areas with predominant criminal gang presence, a deployment of 20,000 police agents, new security controls on roads and measures against money laundering.

The Manchester United defender, controversially picked for England despite a long run of poor form and absence from his Premier League team's line-up, said he had 'no regrets' about the clash with police in Mykonos in the summer of 2020.

TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared a national security emergency on Thursday and began implementing a new plan to combat a rising number of cases of extortion by violent criminal groups operating across the country.

According to transcripts of the court hearing days later, Maguire and his group were arguing with two other men when they were spotted by plainclothes police. They and the police dispute what happened next.

In Athens, subways and buses were to suspend services all day Wednesday,, and taxis were set to stay off the streets from 6 a.m.
until Thursday morning. Unions planned to hold protest marches in the city Wednesday morning.

Iran has agreed to release the crews of the Greek tankers it seized in May, the MT Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon, in response to the confiscation of oil by the United States from an Iranian-flagged tanker in Greece.

From his jail cell in the northern city of Tripoli, Daher sends daily messages to his lawyer asking him whether judges have ended what is already the longest strike for their profession in Lebanes

Judges have suspended their work as rampant inflation eats away at their salaries, paralysing the judiciary and leaving detainees in limbo -- the latest outcome of Lebanon's years-long financi

But his image was sullied by the events of August 21, 2020, when he was holidaying with a group including wife-to-be Fern Hawkins, 28, taxi Pelion greece his sister, Daisy, 24, and his brother Joe, 26, at a £29,000-a-week villa in Mykonos.

The declaration also authorizes the Honduran government to make extraordinary use of public funds to combat criminal gangs known for involvement in illicit activities such as kidnapping and drug trafficking.

The plan follows pressure from businessmen, truck, bus and online taxi Pelion drivers, residents and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who say extortion - largely by the Mara Salvatrucha MS-13 and best day trips from Pelion Mara Barrio 18 gangs - has worsened in recent months.

Late Tuesday, aviation authorities announced that air traffic controllers and civil aviation workers would not participate in the strike after all.
That meant domestic and international flight cancellations and schedule changes announced by Greece's main airlines for Wednesday would be readjusted, with many flights taking place. Travelers were advised to contact airlines.

The crew member is the first to return home from a total of about 48 seafarers - Greeks, Filipinos and taxi prices Katigiorgis a Cypriot - who are expected to be gradually released and replaced in the coming days, a Greek official told Reuters.

Lawyer Jocelyn al-Rai said her client, a Syrian youth, was arrested two months ago on drug trafficking charges without a warrant and has yet to face questioning, Meteora airport bus because the public prosecutor's office has stoppe

But now, underfunded public institutions have taken a hit after the country's economy went into free-fall in 2019, with basic state services like renewing passports or completing a real estate transaction often taking months to

In Beirut on Thursday, a criminal court sentenced Hassan Dekko, a man known as the "Captagon King", to seven years in prison with hard labour for producing and trafficking the stimulant, a judicial so



Yet the judges' strike is also contributing to overcrowding in the already cramped prisons, stretching detention facilities that have seen increasing numbers of escape attempts, a source at the Palace of Justice in the Beirut suburb of Baabda

"About 350 people used to be released from prison every month... that number has now been reduced to about 25," said the source, taxi price Pelion to airport adding that most are released after "mediators intervene with the judge handling