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A 30-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at the Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport for drug trafficking. 

According to the police, an investigation in cooperation with the DEA office of the US embassy located the woman after she landed in Greece on a flight from Switzerland.

A total of 37 kilograms of cannabis was located in the woman's luggage. 

The European Union is ushering in a new era for Schengen visas, making the process fully digital. This move eliminates the need for physical stickers in passports, streamlining the application process, as reported by AFP.

According to the ranking of StartupBlink ("Top 100 Countries for Startup-Business Friendliness 2023"), an organization that evaluates and maps the startup ecosystems of 1,000 cities in 100 countries worldwide, Greece is among the countries with the friendliest business environment for startups, coming in at 37th place and moving up six places compared to the previous count. 

Bulgaria has the highest social risk in the European Union, according to the Social Resilience Index. It tracks 12 economic, social and political parametres in 185 countries around the world, said Allianz Trade, which produces the ranking.

The results of the study covered the period from early 2022 to September 2023.

The American technology giant "Meta" announced that it will release paid versions of its most popular social platforms - "Facebook" and "Instagram" - from November for its European customers.

They will be ad-free to comply with European Union regulations, Reuters reported on Monday.

MARRAKESH - Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Thursday a Serbian delegation at International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings in Marrakesh had been met with extremely positive reactions.

Mali also met with the Swiss Governor at the World Bank Guy Parmelin.

Day 581 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Those drones, let's recall, are used by Russia in attacks on Ukrainian territories.
In a 47-page document submitted by the Ukrainian government to the G7 governments in August, Kyiv claims that in the previous three months there have been more than 600 attacks by Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) containing Western technology, London's Guardian reports.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be in the US from September 18 through 22 for the 78th UN General Assembly session in New York.

The initial performance of the new Mandarin Oriental hotel at Costa Navarino is particularly satisfactory, says the head of the ultra-luxury hotel management chain in Greece, Raul Levis.