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EU Interior Ministers Agree in Principle to Relocate 120 000 Migrants
EU interior ministers have adopted a plan by the European Commission to relocate 40 000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other Member States over the next 2 years.
Meimarakis to Tsipras: Why do you want another popular mandate, to implement the memorandum you signed?
Former PM and radical leftist (SYRIZA) party leader Alexis Tsipras goes up against his main rival, conservative New Democracy (ND) leader Vangelis Meimarakis, live on Greek television on Monday evening. The debate’s two participants can also raise three “red cards”, meaning they can intervene after answers by the other. Here are the “blow-by-blow” highlights:
Bulgaria Still Seeking Schengen Membership by Air Border - Deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva has said that Bulgaria keeps insisting on being granted partial Schengen membership by air border.
Visitors, revenue up at both museums, archaeological sites
Greek museums posted a 12.4-percent increase in the number of visitors in the January-May period this year compared with 2014, while much-needed revenues for state coffers generated by the museums were up 19 percent.
Miners protest unit’s closure outside debate venue
A group of miners from the Skouries gold production and processing complex of northern Greece rallied and blocked the main gate of state broadcaster ERT early Monday evening, an hour before a scheduled debate (19.00 GMT) between leftist SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and conservative New Democracy president Vangelis Meimarakis.
Caretaker govt to loosen intl E-shop transactions
Greece is slowly extricating itself from a … North Korean-style banking environment as a looming ministerial decision, by the caretaker government, envisions a further relaxation of capital controls, imposed in late June by the previous SYRIZA government, with the signatures of ex-PM Alexis Tsipras and his FinMin, Yanis Varoufakis.
CHAMPION STYLE Djokovic wins 2nd U.S. Open, 10th Grand Slam title
CHAMPION STYLE Djokovic wins 2nd U.S. Open, 10th Grand Slam title
Novak Djokovic beat Swiss Roger Federer 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 early on Monday Central European Time to win his second U.S. Open and 10th Gram Slam title.
By triumphing in New York, the world number one tennis player became only the eighth man in the history of the sport to have double-digit Grand Slam titles.
Big wave of refugees expected in Serbia during Monday
Big wave of refugees expected in Serbia during Monday
The reception center in Presevo, southern Serbia, was not crowded on Monday afternoon, but a big influx of refugees is expected during the evening.
Bulgaria Backs Mandatory Refugee Quotas - Interior Minister
Bulgaria unconditionally supports the proposal for mandatory refugee quotas, according to Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova.
Speaking Monday ahead of a meeting of EU interior ministers, Bachvarova said that Bulgaria would back such a proposal.
Topless Femen ‘sextremists’ crash Paris event on Islam (Watch vid)
Two topless activists from the self-proclaimed “sextremist” group Femen were violently dragged away from a Paris-area stage after after storming an Islamic conference on women and religion.
Video footage shows two topless women race onto the stage as two Imams were addressing a crowd on Saturday afternoon in the Pontoise district near Paris.
Seven months of SYRIZA govt leave (public) education system in shambles
SYRIZA’s seven-month reign has left the country (public) education sector in shambles, with the most prominent examples being a surge in the number of unfilled teaching spots — greater than the usual gap — an abolition of exam-entry secondary magnet schools and the slapping of a …23-percent VAT rate on the education sector!
US envoy for Syria holds talks in Turkey
U.S. special envoy for Syria Michael Ratney held talks with Turkish Foreign Ministry officials on Sept. 14 in Ankara on issues about the war-torn Syria, according to diplomatic sources.
Ratney was appointed to his position in July and had previously worked for the State Department in the Middle East.
Coalition air forces bomb ISIL on Turkey-Syria border
Coalition forces have launched an air operation on targets of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) across the border from Turkey's Kilis province in Syria.
Aircraft from U.S.-led coalition forces bombed ISIL targets in the Bab and Rai regions in northern Syria, at a distance of 10 kilometers from Kilis early on Sep. 14.
US Embassy categorically denies 'terror supporter' claims
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has categorically denied reports by pro-government media which suggested the United States has been purposefully disrupting the performance of U.S.-trained moderate Syrian fighters and covertly supporting the People?s Protection Units (YPG), the military arm of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), in northern Syria.
Sofia Court Acquits Ex Interior Minister over Blocking Special Surveillance Equipment Use
The Sofia Appellate Court has revoked the 4-year prison sentence of former Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov over blocking the deployment of special surveillance equipment against Orlin Todorov, former head of Veliko Tarnovo's regional anti-mafia unit, and two other people.