Death

On September 7, 1978, the Bulgarian journalist, playwright and dissident from the regime of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Georgi Markov, was poisoned with a ricin-filled pellet shot from a modified umbrella while crossing Waterloo Bridge in London. Four days later, he died.

Matic, who chairs the commission set up to investigate murders of journalists in Serbia, asked the representatives of the MUP and the Prosecutor's Office to do what is necessary to protect journalists who are exposed to drastic threats, and who have "targets being drawn on their backs."

Politicians in various European countries have insulted and discredited journalists, populism is on the rise, the press is vilified - and it has led to the creation of an environment in which two journalists were killed in just four months in two European Union states, Malta and Slovakia.

A few years ago, a team of archaeologists cleaning sand from an ancient Egyptian tomb discovered a group of broken jars, one of them containing a mysterious white substance.

The badly decomposed remains of a man were recovered on Sunday from the eastern coast of the island of Evia.

The coast guard retrieved the body from a steep, rocky shore after being alerted to its presence.

The remains have been transferred to the department of forensic medicine and toxicology at the University of Athens, where an autopsy will be conducted.

More than two weeks after the deadly fire in eastern Attica, in which over 92 people lost their lives, the General Secretariat for Civil Protection has released a list of the names of the dead.

The names - among them two unidentified persons - were forwarded by forensic investigators to prosecutors in Athens on Wednesday as part of the investigation into the disaster.

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Police on Rhodes on Thursday launched an investigation to identify a human skeleton found in a park on the outskirts of the southeastern Aegean island's capital by a passer-by.

Forensics experts were examining the remains amid indications that they could be those of a foreign national reported missing in 2014.

A coroner was to determine the cause of death.

More than 2,000 homes were damaged in this week's deadly wildfire near Athens and roughly a quarter of them will have to be demolished, Greek officials said Friday, revealing more about the disaster that has seen the government face mounting criticism.

The head of the Athens Forensics Department says all autopsies on the dozens of people who died in Greece's deadliest wildfire in decades have been completed, although the identification process continues.