Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-08-12

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Weather Forecast: Overcast, possible showers, on Monday

[02] Man dies because of protest at municipality merger

[03] Fatos Nano in Athens hospital for surgery following accident

[04] Fillipoi fire and another 127 blazes in Greece under control

[05] Police suspect murder in case of hanged Turkish clinic patient

[06] Weather - Sunday

[07] Foreign exchange rates - Monday

[01] Weather Forecast: Overcast, possible showers, on Monday

Unsettled weather with possible showers or storms is forecast for northeast Greece and the northern Aegean on Monday, while sunshine in the rest of the country will give way to cloud and brief showers in the afternoon. Winds northerly, moderate to strong and very strong in the Aegean. In the west and the north, temperatures will range from 20C to 32C; on the rest of the mainland from 22C to 35C; and in the Aegean islands from 24C to 33C. Cloudy in Athens from the afternoon with possible showers in the north and temperatures between 24C and 34C. Cloud and possibly rain in Thessaloniki, with strong to very strong north northwest winds and temperatures from 22C to 32C.

[02] Man dies because of protest at municipality merger

A man from Crete died in hospital on Sunday as a result of burns sustained while trying to restrain another from self-immolating over the merger of his village municipality.

Emmanuel Lasithiotakis, 55, father of two, was injured during an incident in the village of Vrahasi on July 3, when local inhabitants turned out to protest against the administrative union of their village and that of Neapolis.

The protestors had attacked a convoy of garbage trucks from Neapolis that arrived with a police escort to collect the village's rubbish. During the melee, 75-year-old Costas Platakis had doused himself with alcohol and set fire to himself. Rushing to Platakis' aid, Lasithiotakis was himself seriously burned and had been hospitalised since that time.

A funeral for Lasithiotakis was held at 5:00 p.m.

[03] Fatos Nano in Athens hospital for surgery following accident

Albania's Socialist Party leader Fatos Nano was admitted to an Athens hospital for emergency surgery on Sunday after being injured in a traffic accident in Tepelene, Albania.

According to an announcement by his doctors on Sunday afternoon, Nano is expected to make a full recovery and will most likely be released from hospital in two days time.

Nano underwent plastic micro-surgery at the Athens Medical Centre on the fingers of his right hand, carried out by a hospital team specialising in hand surgery.

[04] Fillipoi fire and another 127 blazes in Greece under control

A wildfire that broke out in the Fillipoi municipality in Kavala was now under partial control, the fire department announced on Sunday morning.

Two fire-fighting aircraft, two helicopters and ground crews had been sent out to battle the blaze.

The fire department said that all 127 fires reported throughout the country from Saturday to Sunday morning were in farmland or forest and all were under control.

[05] Police suspect murder in case of hanged Turkish clinic patient

A Turkish man found hanged from the balcony of a Haidari clinic may well have been murdered, a police coroner said on Sunday.

Ibrahim Dokan, 28, was found early on Saturday morning and had been hanged with a three-metre electrical cord taken from a freezer in the clinic's basement, while his hands were tied behind his back with white bandages.

[06] Weather - Sunday

Mostly sunny skies and scorching heat are again forecast for most of the country on Sunday, with a chance of sporadic showers in central and northern Greece. Northerly winds in the Aegean, strong to very strong at times. Temperatures between 22C and 32C in the north, 24C to 39C in the rest of the mainland, and up to 35C on the islands. Sunny in Athens, turning cloudy by afternoon, 27C to 39C. A chance of thunderstorms in Thessaloniki, 25C to 32C.

[07] Foreign exchange rates - Monday

Indicative buying rates

U.S. dollar 378.274

German mark 172.829

French franc 051.531

Pound sterling 539.195

Irish punt 429.202

Belgian franc 008.379

Luxembourg franc 008.379

Dutch guilder 153.389

Italian lira (100) 017.457

Austrian schilling 024.565

Danish kroner 45.420

Swedish kroner 36.823

Finnish mark 056.852

Spanish peseta 002.032

Portuguese escudo 001.686

Japanese yen (100) 309.238

Swiss franc 223.603

Norwegian kroner 042.174

Cyprus pound 589.339

Canadian dollar 245.073

Australian dollar 195.026

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