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Greece has one of the highest percentages of elderly residents in rural and remote areas in the EU, experiencing insurmountable difficulties, according to a study by the Care Policy and Evaluation Center of the London School of Economics by Maria Karagiannidou, Raphael Wittenberg and Dr Jacqueline Daman in collaboration with Thalia Rizou.

Efforts to defuse a crisis in Kosovo intensified on Wednesday as ethnic Serbs continued their protests over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in a northern town where recent clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers sparked fears of renewed conflict.

Former Turkish economy minister Kemal Dervis, August 21, 2002, in Ankara. Photo: EPA PHOTO EPA/TARIK TINAZAY

Kemal Derviş, Türkiye's former economy minister, has died at the age of 74 in the hospital in Washington where he received treatment.

The former minister had been receiving Parkinson's treatment in the U.S. for a while.

Derviş served as the Economy Minister during an economic crisis in 2000 and 2001, and then was elected as a deputy of the Republican People's Party (CHP).

Bereket Jah, the last ruler of the Hyderabad state in India and the grandson of the last Ottoman caliph Abdülmecid, has passed away at the age of 89 in Istanbul.

Once one of the richest names in the world, Jah had lived a secluded life in Istanbul since 1996.

Not all people in Albania have welcomed Prime Minister Edi Rama's order that school pupils sing the national anthem in a ceremonial setting once a week.

One critic has called it "idiotic nationalism" while others see it as part of the Rama's attempt to coopt nationalism in his politics at a time when he is under attack for alleged corruption

Ioannis Bratakos was sworn in, on Friday, in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and officially assumed office.

Whos is Ioannis Bratakos

European media in general has been facing a dual threat for over a decade. On one side there are the illiberal governments, especially in Central and Southeast Europe, using increasingly sophisticated means to defenestrate the independent media, while on the other side are the tech giants eating into the traditional media's business.

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Professor Semih Tümen has been appointed deputy governor of Turkey's Central Bank, replacing Oğuzhan Erbaş.

The presidential decree regarding the appointment was published in the Official Gazette. There are four deputy governors at the country's Central Bank.