Greece suspended international mail delivery

Greece suspended international mail delivery on Wednesday after several parcel bombs addressed to French, German and Italian leaders were discovered along with others targeting foreign embassies, including the Russian, Swiss and Bulgarian missions.

A package addressed to German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached her Berlin offices on Tuesday, when another for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found on a courier plane forced into an emergency landing in Italy.

A similar package was found addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday in Athens in a campaign that has caused no serious injury and Greek authorities have linked to far-left Greek extremists.

Greece on Tuesday halted mail deliveries to foreign destinations for 48 hours as authorities struggled to deal with the wave of booby-trapped packages, most made to look like a parcel of books.