A third person suffered life-threatening injuries.

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An anonymous phone call to a Greek newspaper warned that a bomb had been planted in the centre of Athens.

The male caller gave a timeframe of 35 to 40 minutes, insisting it was not a joke and the threat is serious.

It was not long after that an explosion rocked the head office of Greece’s main railway company, Hellenic Train, which was involved in the tragic rail disaster in 2023 in which 57 people were killed and dozens more wounded.

The incident happened late on Friday, and there were no reports of injuries.

CCTV footage shows the moment the shockwave ripped through Syngrou Avenue, a main road in the capital lined up with restaurants and bars that is a popular spot for tourists.

A padlocked backpack was seen abandoned outside the HQ of the rail firm in the hours before.

This is where the incendiary device was concealed.

Police had secured the area, and forensics teams were spotted collecting evidence at the site.

In a statement, Hellenic Train said the explosion had occurred ‘very close to its central offices’ and said the blast had caused limited damage and no injuries to any employees or passers-by.

It said authorities had acted immediately upon receiving information about the warning call, and that the company was cooperating fully with them and ensuring the safety of its staff.

The blast comes amid widespread protest over the catastrophe that saw a freight train and a passenger train heading in opposite directions crash as they were accidentally put on the same track.

The victims included mostly university students who had been returning to classes after a public holiday.

Criticism over the government’s handling of the February 28, 2023 collision at Tempe in northern Greece has mounted over the last few weeks in the wake of the second anniversary of the disaster.

The crash exposed severe deficiencies in the railway system, including in safety systems, and has triggered mass protests – led by relatives of the victims – against the country’s conservative government.

Critics accused authorities of failing to take political responsibility for the disaster or holding senior officials accountable.

So far, only rail officials have been charged with any crimes.

Several protests in recent weeks have turned violent, with demonstrators clashing with police.

Earlier Friday, a heated debate in Parliament on the rail catastrophe led to lawmakers voting to refer a former Cabinet minister to judicial authorities to be investigated over alleged violation of duty over his handling of the immediate aftermath of the accident.

Hellenic Train said it ‘unreservedly condemns every form of violence and tension which are triggering a climate of toxicity that is undermining all progress.’

Greece has a long history of politically-motivated violence dating back to the 1970s.

Domestic extremist groups have carried out small-scale bombings which usually cause damage but rarely lead to injuries.

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A private jet travelling from New York to Mexico has crashed in what is the second aviation incident in 24 hours after a helicopter plummeted in the Hudson River, killing six people on board.

Footage shared on social media shows the Gulfstream V executive jet skidding off the runway while landing at Cabo San Lucas International Airport.

The crash is understood to have happened on Thursday afternoon, two hours after the aircraft took off from Teterboro Airport, in New Jersey.

Several families travelling from Brooklyn were on board when the crash happened, but it is understood they all survived.

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A former ballerina who was imprisoned in Russia for donating £39 to a charity collecting money for Ukraine has finally been freed.

Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian dual national, was supposed to spend the next 12 years of her life behind bars after being convicted of treason last year and branded an ‘American spy’.

The 34-year-old was today released in a prisoner exchange with the US government, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said.

Rubio confirmed in a statement on X earlier: ‘American Ksenia Karelina is on a plane back home to the United States.

‘She was wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year and president Trump secured her release.

‘He will continue to work for the release of ALL Americans.’

Her lawyer, Mikhail Mushailov, said: ‘She was exchanged. She contacted her relatives two hours ago.’

He confirmed that she was flying to the US from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where the exchange took place.

Who is Ksenia Karelina?

Karelina was born in Russia and emigrated to the US back in 2012 with her childhood friend Kristina via a work-study programme, receiving American citizenship in 2021.

At first, she pursued dance as a ballerina, but later moved from Baltimore to Los Angeles, where she took on a job as a receptionist at the luxury Ciel Spa at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.

In 2022, she graduated from esthetician school and continued working in the spa until she was jailed in Russia.

Family members described her as someone who ‘loves to travel to US national parks, hikes, does yoga every Sunday and takes boxing classes’.

A statement on the ‘Free Ksenia’ website said: ‘She is a kind and generous woman who is very close to her family. Since her arrest, her boyfriend Chris has been the lead advocate for Ksenia, coordinating everything we do to support Ksenia and bring her home.’

Why did the Kremlin target the former ballerina?

She had travelled from Los Angeles to visit her 90-year-old grandmother, parents and younger sister in their home in southwestern Russia when she was detained in February.

Three days before she was scheduled to return home, she was handcuffed in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains, and convicted of state treason later in 2024.

This was also the same location where Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had been arrested the previous year.

Russia’s FSB searched her mobile and found that she had made a donation to Razom, a charity that provides aid to Ukraine, on the first day of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Authorities accused her of ‘proactively collecting money in the interests of one of the Ukrainian organisations, which was subsequently used to purchase tactical medical supplies, equipment, weapons, and ammunition for the Ukrainian armed forces’.

The US authorities have called the case against her ‘absolutely ludicrous’.

Who else was part of the prisoner exchange?

The prisoner exchange was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing a statement from CIA director John Ratcliffe, who it said was on hand for the exchange at an airport in Abu Dhabi.

‘Today, president Trump brought home another wrongfully detained American from Russia,’ Ratcliffe said.

‘I’m proud of the CIA officers who worked tirelessly to support this effort, and we appreciate the government of UAE for enabling the exchange.’

It is understood that the US in exchange freed dual German-Russian citizen, Arthur Petrov.

He was arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the US for allegedly exporting more than $225,000 worth of electronic components to manufacturers supplying weaponry and equipment to the Russian military.

Petrov worked for Russia-based supplier LLC Electrocom VPK, according to court documents cited by the US Department of Justice.

It was alleged that alongside two accomplices who also worked for Electrocom Petrov fraudulently procured microelectronics from US distributors using a network of shell companies, based in Cyprus and other third countries, to disguise that the ultimate destination for the equipment was Russia.

There was no immediate confirmation from the Russian or US authorities.

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