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The combined tactical exercise with combat shooting "Lightning Strike 2021" - the largest in the last few decades, began today at the military range in Pester.

In line with the pre-election pledge to modernize Greece's national security apparatus, which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had reiterated at the recent meeting of the Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), the government on Thursday appointed Vice Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos to the new post of national security adviser to the Prime Minister's Office.

Vice Admiral Alexandros Diakopoulos has been appointed National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister's office, a post set up by the new conservative administration, the government announced Thursday.
Meanwhile, Panagiotis Kontoleon was named as the new head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP).

A massive explosion rocked Kabul late Wednesday amid fears a British security company had been targeted, officials said, with casualties expected in the latest violence to beset the Afghan capital, reports AFP. 

Turkey will provide legal support to Turkish citizens living in France and Belgium after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that European firms can ban employees from wearing religious or political symbols, including the Islamic headscarf. 

European firms can ban employees from wearing religious or political symbols including the Islamic headscarf, the EU's top court ruled on March 14 in a landmark case.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said it does not constitute "direct discrimination" if a firm has an internal rule banning the wearing of "any political, philosophical or religious sign." 

A Belgian prosecutor has denied local media reports that the murder of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear site was related to a possible terrorist threat, AFP reported on Saturday.

Security services group G4S has drawn up plans with Greece?s central bank to keep the country?s cash machines stocked in the event of a full-blown economic crisis, the company told Reuters on Monday.