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Two employees of Piraeus Containers Terminal SA have been arrested for allegedly facilitating the export of a large quantity of drugs hidden in a banana shipment at the Port of Piraeus, authorities reported.

A major operation by the Police Department resulted in the arrest of two individuals – members of a criminal organization with an international footprint – who facilitated the importation, distribution and delivery of quantities of cocaine originating from Latin America through the port of Piraeus.

Two senior employees of the container terminal in Neo Ikonio have been implicated in a cocaine trafficking ring.

Four foreign nationals were arrested after Greek authorities, in coordination with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Thessaloniki customs, seized more than 45 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a refrigerated banana container at the northern city's port.

The suspects, described as members of a powerful drug cartel, will testify before a magistrate on Wednesday.

Drought costs the world more than $300 billion each year, the United Nations warned on Tuesday in a report published on the second day of international talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia.

Fueled by "human destruction of the environment," drought is projected to affect 75 percent of the world's population by 2050, the report cautioned.

Authorities from dozens of countries seized 225 tons of cocaine in a six-week mega-operation worldwide, and unearthed a new trafficking route to Australia, the Colombian Navy said on Nov. 27.

The Municipality of Athens has won a prestigious award in the field of international tourism. Athens has been named the World’s Leading Cultural Destination at the renowned World Travel Awards 2024.

Arrest warrants issued yesterday against Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Galland and the head of the armed forces department of Hamas Mohammed Daif represent a historic development for the International Criminal Court, which has been struggling for 22 years to have its jurisdiction recognized and to gain enforcement powers.

Spanish police seized a record-breaking 13 tons of cocaine on October 14 in Algeciras, a southern Spanish port. The drugs were hidden within a shipment of bananas from Ecuador.

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fueling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts have said.

The world's biggest jungle, spanning nine countries, is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its ability to absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.