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The relatives of a woman and a man killed in a wildfire near Athens last week have sued state authorities, the fire brigade and police over their deaths.

The Council of State has ordered the Greek state to pay 350,000 euros in damages to the relatives of a 24-year-old man who was killed in 2005 when the car he was driving crashed into an illegal billboard on the side of the capital's Kifissias Avenue.

A prosecutor has demanded aggravated life sentences for nine suspects on charges of voluntary manslaughter and breaching the constitution in a trial for the deadly 2015 Ankara train station attack.

A 56-year-old woman faced an Athens prosecutor on manslaughter charges on Thursday after police arrested her over the death of her 88-year-old father earlier this week.

The body of the elderly man was found at his Kallithea home on Tuesday with a bloodied walking stick next to him.

A total of 25 women were killed in Turkey in March, according to a new report released by the country's We Will Stop Femicides Platform.

Some 47 women were killed in February in Turkey, marking one of the highest femicide figures in recent months, according to a recent report released by the Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu (We Will Stop Femicides Platform), a women’s rights organization that monitors violence against women. 

A total of 409 women were killed and 387 children sexually abused in Turkey in 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will Stop Femicide” women’s rights activist platform.

A total of 365 women were killed by men in the first 11 months of 2017, according to data compiled by the “We Will Stop Femicide” women’s rights activist platform based on news reported in the media.

There were more murders in October in Mexico than in any month over at least 20 years, according to official data, in the latest grim milestone in 2017, a year on course to register the highest homicide tally since modern records began.

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis on Friday refuted suggestions that the government may be considering the legalization of assisted suicide, saying that any such action will continue to be viewed as consensual homicide, a felony that carries jail time.