AMBER Alert
"Will you help if you can?" Amber Alert goes live today; Jurić for B92.net: I'm proud
This system, which is called Amber Alert in the USA, will facilitate the search for missing children in Serbia.
Igor Juri, founder of the "Tijana Juri" Foundation, told B92.net how important this system is for our society and explained how "Find me" will work in stages.
AMBER Alert launched in Slovenia to help find missing children
Roughly 500 people are reported missing in Slovenia each year, about 30% of them are minors. Finding them will now be made easier with the help an alert system launched by the US tech giant Meta in cooperation with the Slovenian police. Slovenia is only the 30th country in the world to use the AMBER Alert tool.
Slovenia records 400-600 missing persons per year, vast majority are found
Ljubljana – Between 400 and 600 people are reported missing in Slovenia every year, a third of them are adolescents or children. Most are found within a day, while more than 90% of children are found within four hours, says Damjan Miklič, head of the Police Expert Network on Missing Persons.
Investigation launched into disappearance of 10-year-old girl
Police in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, have launched an investigation into the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl whose mother claims may have been abducted on her way back from school in Toumba on Thursday.
Missing girl found in France
A 7-year-old Congolese girl who was reported missing on December 24 from the central Athens neighborhood of Pangrati last December is alive and well, and living in Paris with an aunt, police said on Wednesday.
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Missing 13-year-old boy identified among wildfire victims
A 13-year-old boy that had gone missing in the coastal town of Mati since Monday's deadly blaze was identified among the victims, according to an announcement by the Smile of the Child (Hamogelo tou Paidiou) charity on Saturday.
Young man found dead in Victoria Square
A young foreign national was found dead in Victoria Square in central Athens on Saturday.
His body was found by a passer-by shortly after 1 a.m.
Police, who did not disclose any more information about the identity of the victim, said he had suffered stab wounds to the stomach area.
An investigation has been launched.
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Bulgaria to Introduce a New System For Tracking Missing Children Through Facebook
Bulgaria is one of the first countries in the region to introduce a new system for tracking missing children through Facebook.
It is called "AMBER Alert".
Boy, 7, drowns in sea west of Athens
A 7-year-old Syrian-Kurdish boy was found dead Friday night after he went missing earlier in the day from the Skaramangas refugee center west of Athens.
The boy's disappearance prompted an amber alert and mobilized a police search operation, which led to the discovery of the boy's body in the sea not far from the camp.
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"Continued threat of terror throughout Europe"
The U.S. State Department issued a new alert for U.S. citizens planning to travel to Europe.
They should be aware of a continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout the continent, the alert, that expires on September 1, said.
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