News archive of December 2018

For the fifth consecutive time, voters showed great support for Zoran Janković, again entrusting him with the management of the City of Ljubljana. He was nominated with 61,287 votes or 60.47% of the votes, enough to be elected in the first round of the local elections.

The RogLab project is a part of the Rog factory, an important industrial centre in the past, that will be turned into a modern creative space.

Prime Minister Edi Rama on Friday axed seven of his 14 ministers after a year of popular protests against government policies.

Rama summoned the National Assembly of his governing Socialist Party in Tirana and insisted that the changes were "not the result of failures".

Authorities investigating the kidnapping of a businessman in Piraeus on Thursday morning are waiting to see whether the perpetrators demand a ransom from his family or if the purpose was to scare or blackmail him, according to officials from the Greek Police's security division.

The government and the country's systemic banks agreed on Friday to extend a legislation protecting primary residencies from auctions by two months, following a meeting of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with the Hellenic Bank Association (HBA) at Maximos Mansion.

At least 400 people have been left homeless by the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that struck towns near the Mount Etna volcano, Italy's Civil Protection Agency said Thursday, quoted by Gulf Times. 

The agency said it was looking after 406 people affected by the December 26 event, meaning that it was providing emergency food and accommodation for them.

A Turkish prosecutor has launched an investigation into journalist Fatih Portakal for "provoking people to commit a crime," days after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blasted the Fox TV anchor by claiming that he "invited people to the streets," like the Yellow Vests in France.

The Bosnian prosecution indicted more people for war crimes in 2018 than in the previous year, but the number of prosecutors working on the cases is still higher than the number of indictments, a BIRN analysis shows.

The trend has continued with new blockchain tenants in the BTC City Ljubljana with European Blockchain Hub as being one of the most recent tenants in the field. BTC City Ljubljana will continue to strengthen and expand the blockchain community and other stakeholders who are seeking opportunities in the sequencing technology of data blocks.

In what is seen as another move by Ankara to dispute the sovereignty of Athens and Nicosia, Turkey has announced it will send its Cesme research vessel to conduct surveys this week in an area stretching from south of Cyprus all the way up to the northern Aegean.