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BELGRADE- Telekom Srbija CEO Vladimir Lucic said on Thursday the company was already offering its projects to the world through a project for the diaspora and a fund for financing digital startups.

Online transactions and new technologies facilitate the work of the audit mechanism to curb tax evasion.

Online information retrieval platforms such as Booking.com, Airbnb, food delivery platforms and courier services provide auditors with new valuable information.

The intense social media activity of certain popular influencers has led the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) to inspect those who directly or indirectly advertise products. The focus is on whether the income they earn from advertising products on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook is declared in their tax returns. 

The Mayor of Kukes, Safet Gjici, has resigned following publication of a tape showing him having sex in his office.

Albania's prosecution SPAK told BIRN that it had started a criminal proceeding about the case though it is not clear what the exact charges might be. Most likely he might face charges of "abuse of duty".

Even the microchips in our computers are fallible, making "silent" errors that go unnoticed. This is where Athens University professor of computer architecture Dimitris Gizopoulos and his research team come in, having been assigned the task by Meta of assessing the scope of the problem and containing it.

"I want to donate money, I need [your] ID," is the Facebook message that changed Marija's life. It was a message that has brought her a lot of anxiety and a large debt, all from a few quick loans and the shame that she let it happen to her at all. Because of that shame, she spoke to BIRN on condition that we not use her real name and refer to her only as Marija.

A study by the Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford published last year showed that 71% of the public in Greece gets its information from social media, and 53% of that number from Facebook in particular. 

An 87-year-old man was arrested and fined on Tuesday after he was caught on video abusing one of his dogs in the region of Loutron Langada in Thessaloniki.

He was arrested following a lawsuit filed by a representative of an animal rights group Syniparcho (Coexist) and is to appear before a prosecutor on Wednesday.

"I am ready to return to Bulgaria as a protected witness", Vasil Bozhkov wrote on Facebook today.

"Borissov's impudence gave way to his fear. He has reason to be afraid," he also wrote.

ATA Alliance candidate Sinan Ogan and his wife cast their votes on May 14. Photo: Sinan Ogan/Facebook

Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces his opposition rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the second round of voting on May 28.