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DNA Test Places Abaaoud in Athens in January

A joint investigation conducted by Greek and French authorities found that Abdelhamid Abaaoud's DNA matches DNA samples found during a Greek police raid of apartment buildings in Athens in January 2015. Abaaoud, a Belgian national who is considered to have orchestrated the...

DNA Tests Reveal that Turkish Citizen is Not Greek Cypriot as He Initially Assumed

A Turkish citizen who was transferred to Turkey following the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, claiming that he might be a Greek Cypriot, has been proven not to be based on genetic tests, Cyprus' Foreign Ministry has announced. According...

Norman Atlantic: DNA Tests to be Used to Identify Corpses

The Operational Center of the Italian authorities continues their investigation to track those who were on board of the ferry boat “Norman Atlantic” and are still missing. As stated, the prosecutor of Bari who is in charge of the investigation...

DNA Test Shows Young Man in Cyprus is not Missing Ben

As revealed by the Cypriot authorities, according to the DNA test, the young man who appears in a video  held by the Cypriot police is not Ben, the boy who disappeared in Kos, in 1991. The representative of the Cypriot...

Alleged Ben Needham Turns Himself In for DNA Test in Cyprus

A young man, who allegedly looks like the British missing boy Ben Needham, appeared voluntarily to a Cyprus Police department in Limassol, Cyprus. The file of Ben Needham’s case was reopened because of new evidence that shows the young man...

Roma Child Returned to her Mother After DNA Testing

The result of DNA profiling proved the allegations of the 43-year-old woman who claimed to be the biological mother of the child found in North Aegean in Mytilene, to be true. This result was identified by DNA method in the...

DNA Test: This is the Mother of the Little Blond Girl Found in Greece

According to the results of the DNA test, published by The Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria, Sasa and Atanas Rusevi are the biological parents of the little blond girl. Svetlozar Lazarov, general secretary of the Ministry, reported that "the results...

New DNA Tests Show Minoans' European Origins

A recently conducted DNA analysis on the remains of Minoans' skeletons found mainly in a cave in Lassithi, Crete, suggest beyond any doubt and previous speculation that the ancestors of the major Minoan civilization of the Bronze Age did...

Greek Olympians Plan to Protest the Kidnapping of the Greek Marbles by Dressing as Caryatids Inside British Museum

A group of Greek Olympians have decided to protest Britain's refusal to return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece by protesting inside the British Museum; where the marbles are kept, while dressed as Caryatids. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, the protest...

Greek, Cypriot Scientists Develop New Rapid Covid Test

A new Covid test being used in England can quickly determine if a patient is positive for coronavirus or not in the space of only 90 minutes. The test, dubbed COVIDNudge, was developed by the company "DnaNudge," the result of...

Police Arrest Two Bulgarian Men in Attempted Kidnapping in Pyrgos

Two men from Bulgaria have been taken into custody after allegedly attempting to kidnap a fourteen-year-old boy in Pyrgos. The crime occurred on Thursday, June 25. The men were arrested on Friday after the potential kidnapping target recognized one of...

DNA to Solve Problem of Missing Persons of Deadly Fires

The only way some of the relatives and friends of missing persons of the deadly fires in East Attica can find information is to go to the mortuary to see if their loved ones are among the 81 confirmed...

16-Year Old Girl Accomplice in Greek Businessman Kidnapping

A 16 year old girl arrested by police in connection to the kidnapping of Michalis Lempidakis in Crete, was released on bail by a prosecutor. The girl testified that she was ordered by her father; one of the main suspects...

Protesters Riot in Athens over Irianna, Jailed for Membership of Terror Group (video)

Fourteen people were arrested in central Athens after a solidarity march for a jailed woman accused of membership in a terrorist organization turned into a riot. Around 100 protesters marched through the shopping district around Ermou Street throwing rocks and...