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ATHENS:Greece accused Turkey on Thursday of deliberately holding up a government aircraft carrying its foreign minister home from Iraq, le high dunks aving it circling for 20 minutes before granting it permission to cross Turkish airspace.Turkey denied the accusation, saying the aircraft had taken off from Iraq without a flight plan but had been allowed to pass once one was procured.Tensions between the two NATO allies, locked in a dispute over maritime boundaries in the east adidas samba blue ern Mediterranean, have been simmering amid claims and counter-claims to marine ar dunk low womens eas thought to be rich in natural gas. ldquo It is one more provocation in Turkey rsquo s series of provocations, rdquo Greek government spokesperson Stelios Petsas told reporters. ldquo I hope the incident is not repeated in the future. rdquo He said Greece rsquo s foreign ministry had complained to the Turkish authorities.Turkish foreign ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy dismissed the suggestion that the plane carrying Greek Foreign Minister N Bbws SC says all federal govt employees entitled to secretariat allowance

HYDERABAD:The floodwater discharged by making cuts to the Manchha dunk low r Lake is now heading towards Dadu district rsquo s main city after inundating several towns and hundreds of villag air force nocta es over the last nearly one week.On Saturday, a ring bund was being reinforced around Dadu bypass to stop water flowing from two ruptures in Bhan Syedabad-Johi bund.The water was around 10 kilometres away from Dadu by Saturday evening. Rumours about an emergency evacuation from Dadu were doing the rounds since morning, unnerving the people who were time and again reassured by the government that there was no threat of flooding.However, the deputy commissioner later clarified that no emergency alert had been issued.The Sindh Prisons Department shifted 319 prisoners from Dadu jail to Hyderabad and some other prisons in the province.Separately, Manchhar Lake floodwater, which is 10 times the lake rsquo s normal capacity, deluged the grid station in Bhan adidas campus white Syedabad, depriving the entire town of electricity as well