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Residents of Chios have expressed growing concern over plans supported by the Environment Ministry to resume antimony mining in the northern part of the island.

The proposal, which includes international bids for mining rights, aims to exploit the mineral, which is essential for military and technological applications.

Residents of Nea Triglia and Nea Plagia in Halkidiki, northern Greece have expressed concern after high levels of arsenic were detected in the local water supply.

According to the municipality, an additional treatment stage is necessary to remove the arsenic, and installation procedures are already under way.

The prosecution in the town of Kruja has opened an investigation into a suspected mass poisoning which President Ilir Meta has described as a serious threat to people's lives.

The tap water in Lyubimets is now safe for drinking and cooking show the new tests made yesterday. The indicators are good and arsenic concentration, for which water use was limited, is already within normal.

 A Greek court has sentenced a university lecturer to two life terms for the fatal poisoning by arsenic of his wife and her grandmother several years ago.

The court ruled late Thursday that the 46-year-old geology lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki gradually poisoned his 34-year-old wife and her 85-year-old grandmother in August 2013.

A year after the bursting of the dam in the abandoned antimony mine Stolice in western Serbia, the damage has not been repaired adequately.

This is what Citizens Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has said, warning that the situation poses "ecological danger for a large part of Serbia's territory."

LOZNICA - The Loznica City Council in western Serbia called at its extraordinary session on Monday for implementation of an urgent solution of the problem concerning the leak of heavy metals from the goaf of former antimony mine in Stolice.