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Police seized a total of 3,700 opium poppy plants in the region of Viotia in central Greece Tuesday and arrested four foreign nationals - three Indians, aged 36, 47 and 58, and a 28-year-old Pakistani.

Authorities are also looking for a 64-year-old Greek man.

Three of those arrested did not have residence permits.

The seeds of fruits like olive, plum, peach and almond, along with the seeds of some medicinal plants from the skirts of the Mount Ida are crafted into jewelry by village women living in the northwestern province of Balıkesir's Edremit district.

Around 30,000 Turkish tulip flowers of different shapes and colors are on display at a tulip festival in the city of Morges, Switzerland.

Six Albanian nationals have been arrested in the region of Grammos in northwestern Greece, near the border with Albania, on charges of violating forestry laws by illegally picking huge amounts of a wild mountain herb.

Police said they caught the men on Tuesday and seized 132 kilos of Primula veris (cowslip), as well as 10 horses that were used to carry the harvest.

Greek police say they have arrested six Albanian men near the border that separates the two countries and seized 10 horses and more than 100 kilograms of an illegally harvested wild mountain herb traditionally used to cure various ailments. 

Most of the northern hemisphere welcomed spring with unexpected snowfalls. April photos picturing cities covered with a white blanket of frost was shared with frustration, because normally April must be the month when this white blanket has to be a formed by a bed of flower petals.

The U.S. flag still flutters next to others in front of the AgroSevilla factory, the world's biggest exporter of black olives based in southern Spain. But the cooperative in Andalusia may soon have to take down the Stars and Stripes if a rise of more than 20 percent in duties on black table olives recently imposed by the United States, its number one client, becomes permanent.

No, this not a phrase made up just for the sake of a catchy title! This must have been the perception of the plant Borago officinalis in 16th and 17th century England. In his colossal work Herball-Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, English botanist and herbalist John Gerard wrote:

Villagers in Aydın’s Söke have destroyed parts of an ancient stone-paved road to make way for their olive groves. Works have been initiated to protect the road

Giorgos runs the coffee shop on the main square but his greatest passion is Greek olive oil, especially that from Laconia in the southeastern Peloponnese - he takes any perceived slight against the local product very personally.