Supreme Council

With restoration efforts now complete in the historic Rumeli Han, nestled on Istanbul's iconic İstiklal Street, visitors are flocking to explore the mysterious tunnel that has come to light beneath its neoclassical facade.

According to an announcement made by the Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP) on Tuesday, there was significant interest in filling the Health Ministry's regional director or deputy director positions, and a lower interest in filling hospital director or deputy director positions.

While there is growing interest on the part of potential employees to apply for local authority positions, when it comes to the time of appointment, it is estimated that one in two turn their backs on the public sector.

"The public sector does not attract," wrote president of the state's Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP) Thanos Papaioannou in a post.

A 61-year-old man arrested as the prime suspect behind several bombs planted outside the freemasons' Grand Lodge of Greece in central Athens has also been charged with additional bomb and arsonist attacks in and around the Greek capital, the Hellenic Police announced on Wednesday.

It comes at a moment of great uncertainty and heightened tensions between Tiraspol and Chisinau stemming from Russia's war in neighbouring Ukraine.

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A famous photo of a striker guarding a factory in Tiraspol

Fierce fighting is taking place in Donbass. Avdeevka, Bahmut, Peski, Marinka are under attack. Moscow announces that its forces have occupied strategically important places in the Donetsk region.

Prime Minister Florin Citu declared on Friday at the end of the government meeting that he further wants the bill on the abolition of the Section for the Investigation of Judicial Crimes (SIIJ) to clear Parliament in a form close to the one approved by the government and that a change to this effect will be attempted during Senate debates.

The breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova on Sunday staged parliamentary elections for the seventh Supreme Council (local parliament) since 1992, in which only a minority of voters cast ballots.

The signing of the Treaty of Trianon, on June 4, 1920, marked, from an international law standpoint, the conclusion of peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary at the conclusion of the First World War.

Seeking to highlight his government's intention to improve the daily lives of citizens as a matter of priority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis reaffirmed his intentions yesterday to proceed with thousands of hirings in the health and law enforcement sectors over a six-month period starting this year.