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GREECE

Seizure of Iranian tanker overturned

A court in central Greece has overturned a ruling that authorized the confiscation of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker at the center of a volatile dispute over Western sanctions. Greek and Iranian officials confirmed on Thursday that an appeals court in the port city of Halkida reversed a lower court's decision to allow the removal of the Lana's cargo. Greek authorities temporarily seized the tanker in mid-April. A Greek official said last month that the Iranian tanker's cargo was being transferred to another vessel following a request from the United States. Greek media reported that the Lana was believed to be carrying more than 100,000 metric tons of Iranian crude, in breach of Western sanctions on Iran.

GERMANY

Berlin rampage driver deemed 'impaired'

Investigators were trying to make sense of "confused" statements by a man who drove into a school group in Berlin in what appears to have been a deliberate rampage, the city's mayor said on Thursday. Wednesday's incident on a popular shopping street in the center of the capital left one woman dead, a teacher with the school group from central Germany, and six people with life-threatening injuries. Another three were seriously injured. The driver, a 29-year-old German-Armenian who lives in Berlin, was detained swiftly after his car came to a halt in a shop window. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey said: "It was a "dark day in the history of Berlin." She added that, by Wednesday evening, authorities had determined that it was an "amok act by a really seriously psychologically impaired person".

Agencies Via Xinhua