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Police in Athens have announced the arrest of two people who are wanted in Sweden on suspicion of murder and incitement to murder.

The two Kurdish nationals - a 55-year-old woman and a 37-year-old man - were arrested on Wednesday in the Neo Kosmos district on foot of a European arrest warrant.

Swedish police are investigating a shooting incident that occurred near an Israeli-affiliated site in Gothenburg. According to Swedish public television (SVT), the location is a facility of the Israeli defense contracting company Elbit Systems. Fortunately, no injuries were reported in the incident.

European universities are seeing a decline in their global standing, as their counterparts in Asia continue to advance, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2025. The rankings, which assess research-focused institutions globally, reveal that Europe now hosts 91 of the world's top 200 universities—a decline from 99 in 2019.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a novel class of small RNA molecules that play a vital role in gene regulation. The Nobel Prize committee made the announcement on Monday in Sweden, recognizing their work carried out at the Karolinska Institutet.

EU countries on Friday gave a definitive green light to hefty additional tariffs on electric cars made in China, despite strong opposition led by Germany and fears it will spark a trade war with Beijing.

The European Commission has urged Greece to properly transpose European Union regulations regarding the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at trial.

In Bulgaria, purchasing a 100 sq.m. apartment requires the equivalent of 199 monthly salaries, according to a recent study that compares real estate prices across 62 countries against average local wages. The report by BestBrokers.com identifies Denmark as the most affordable country in Europe for homebuyers relative to average income, where the average cost of a 100 sq.m.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday urged more countries to recognize Palestine as an independent state, emphasizing its importance on the international stage.

In 2023, the average age at which young people in the European Union left their parents' home was 26.3 years, slightly lower than the 26.4 years recorded the previous year, according to Eurostat.

From 30 September to 11 October 2024, the “Ramstein Flag 24” exercise will take place at Andravida Air Base, with the participation of the majority of NATO Allies.

The exercise will include more than 140 4th and 5th generation warplanes, including F-35, F-16V, Rafale, and others, as well as support aircraft from 13 Allies.