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Russian Man Steals Fur Coats worth $650,000

Russian police. (Reuters)
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Russian Man Steals Fur Coats worth $650,000

Russian police. (Reuters)
Russian police. (Reuters)

A burglar escaped with 200 fur coats worth about $650,000 after he robbed a woman's apartment in the eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, the Russian police said on Monday.

Police said the authorities discovered the coats in a garage used by a 42-year-old man suspected of breaking into the apartment at night after he sawed the door while the owner was outside the city, the German news agency reported.

A police statement said the suspect, who had previously been convicted of similar crimes, is facing a major theft charge.

Grand theft in Russia can be punished by imprisonment for up to ten years.

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Schools Shut on Greek Islands after Heavy Rainstorms Flood Roads

Stranded vehicles are seen in flood water in Naoussa, in the island of Paros, Greece March 31, 2025 in this screen grab from social media video. (Lorene Junillon/via Reuters)
Stranded vehicles are seen in flood water in Naoussa, in the island of Paros, Greece March 31, 2025 in this screen grab from social media video. (Lorene Junillon/via Reuters)
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Schools Shut on Greek Islands after Heavy Rainstorms Flood Roads

Stranded vehicles are seen in flood water in Naoussa, in the island of Paros, Greece March 31, 2025 in this screen grab from social media video. (Lorene Junillon/via Reuters)
Stranded vehicles are seen in flood water in Naoussa, in the island of Paros, Greece March 31, 2025 in this screen grab from social media video. (Lorene Junillon/via Reuters)

Schools and kindergartens were closed on several Greek islands including Paros and Mykonos on Tuesday after severe weather brought torrential rain, flooding and hailstorms to the Aegean Sea.

Authorities in Paros were struggling to remove vehicles stranded by the muddy waters after torrential rain swept through the island, a popular tourist spot in the summer, late on Monday.

"Roads have been damaged and we need help with more machines so that we can clear the streets," Paros' mayor Costas Bizas told public broadcaster ERT. "All this catastrophe happened in two hours."

The severe weather continued until the early hours of the morning, blanketing grasslands in nearby Mykonos with white balls of ice and prompting civil protection authorities to order the closure of schools there and on other islands, including Syros, Symi, Kalymnos and Kos.

Greece has been ravaged by floods frequently in recent years, with scientists attributing the extreme weather to warming waters amid rising global temperatures.

A devastating rainstorm, the worst to hit Greece in nearly a century, killed 17 people and caused extensive damage across the central agricultural region of Thessaly in 2023.