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Refuse collectors decided to continue their strike until Thursday!
The Workers’ Union in Municipalities decided that they should continue their strike until Thursday, when the Union will discuss the situation again.
Although the initial impression after their meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was that they will end the strike, their decision was that the government’s counter-proposal to their own, was not solving the problem.
UN's Macedonia-Greece Envoy Renews Diplomatic Efforts
After a prolonged absence, UN envoy Matthew Nimetz is to visit Macedonia from Sunday to Monday, Macedonia's national broadcaster MRTV reported on Tuesday, citing sources in Washington.
During Nimetz's visit, he is set to meet with top Macedonian officials, although it is not yet known whether he will bring any new proposal for a mutually acceptable name for Macedonia to the table.
Greece & Cyprus launch ‘Hellas Sat 3′ satellite
Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launch is “go” for its Wednesday evening liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana.
Belgrade-Backed Paramilitaries Blamed for Ethnic Cleansing
At the retrial of former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a witness said Serb paramilitary groups like Arkan’s Tigers and the Red Berets carried out ethnic cleansing under Belgrade’s command.
UK Ambassador to Bulgaria: 'We Want the Same Rules for Everyone after Brexit'
"Britain does not want double standards, and we want the same rules for everyone after Brexit," the UK Ambassador to Bulgaria, Emma Hopkins told BNT morning programme "the Day Begins" on 27th of June.
Crans-Montana Cyprus Conference to start with security
The UN-brokered Cyprus negotiations in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, aiming to reunite the divided island will take place in two separate “tables,” informed sources said on Tuesday.
Cyber attack hits oil giant and banks in Russia and Ukraine
Russia's top oil producer Rosneft said a large-scale cyber attack hit its servers on June 27 and computer systems at some banks and the main airport in neighbouring Ukraine were also disrupted.
A Moscow-based cyber security firm, Group-IB, said it appeared to be a coordinated attack simultaneously targeting victims in Russia and Ukraine.
CHP leader warns of risk of 'provocation' on his justice march
The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has prepared a list of 12 guidelines warning participants in the party's "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul against any "provocations," its Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on June 27.
Investigation launched into Turkish protester demanding to be returned to his job
An investigation has been launched into a Turkish sociologist who has been carrying out a protest demanding to be returned to his job in the capital Ankara.
Veli Saçılık, a sociologist who was dismissed from his post with a state of emergency decree, has been carrying out a protest to demand that he be returned to his job and that two jailed educators on hunger strike be released.
Syria Denies U.S. Allegations of Coming Chemical Attack
The Syrian government on Tuesday dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners.
"No indication of permanent solution to migration problem"
Serbia is ready to take over the burden of the migrant crisis, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.
According to the Serbian government, Stefanovic also warned that there are no concrete prospects that the problem would soon be solved.
Dozens killed in air strike in ISIL-held town: Observatory
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on June 27 that dozens of people were killed in an air strike believed to have been carried out by the U.S.-led coalition on an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) prison in the eastern Syrian town of al-Mayadeen.
Fears of a global Cyber-attack of the Wannacry size (Upd2)
Experts on cyberwar are worried that there is a global cyber-attack underway after a series of very serious incidents in Ukraine, Russia, Denmark.
According to the Independent, Ukraine has suffered the hardest cyber-attack in its history.
Athens condemns Tirana's Greater Albania provocation
The Greek MFA has condemned the manner in which Albania used redevelopment of the Skenderbeg Square in Tirana to promote "unity of Albanian territories."
Namely, some of these territories are located in - other countries, RTS is reporting on Tuesday.
Joyeuse – King Charlemagne’s legendary sword
Joyeuse is the name tradition attributed to Charlemagne’s personal sword. Some legends claim Joyeuse was forged using shards of the holy Lance of Longinus, the spear that was stabbed into Jesus’ side as he hung dead on the cross. Others say the blade was smithed from the same materials as Roland’s “Durendal” and Ogier’s “Curtana”.