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As many as 16 nongovernmental organisations have signed a public letter wherein they voice their resentment at the violence manifested in the Victoriei Square.

Those who deal with politics know all too well that, judging from international experience, cover-ups are often far more disastrous than revealing the truth.

Government and local officials first tried to convince us that the way they handled the fire was flawless.

The Istanbul Convention blurs the boundaries between the sexes and this would make it harder to fight domestic violence. It therefore contradicts the constitution, the Constitutional Court decided on Friday with a majority of 8 to 4 votes.

Police in Attica are investigating claims that a 15-year-old boy found hanged on the balcony of his family home in Argyroupoli, southern Athens, on Sunday morning, had been a victim of bullying at school.

According to police sources, the boy left a note explaining that he could not face continuing with his life due to the bullying.

The next elections will take place in an atmosphere of unprecedented polarization and mudslinging.

Unfortunately this extreme and "no holds barred" method of practicing politics is part of the very DNA of the current government.

A total of 104,531 children were reported officially missing between 2008-2016, according to the judicial statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), daily Birgün reported on July 3. 

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell told Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Washington is "constructing a long-term strategy to bolster the US presence in the Eastern Mediterranean."

The number of women engaging in prostitution has been on the rise in recent years, according to a study by Athens's Panteion University, which also found a marked increase in the number of customers.

According to the results of the research, the rise in prostitution began after 2010, coinciding with the social and cultural implications of Greece's financial and migration crisis.

An innovative application developed at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, which "decodes" the crying of babies to help inexperienced parents, will be presented at the World Finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2018 competition, to be held at the end of July in Seattle, USA.

Unresolved land disputes, property restitution claims and problems with registering new religious denominations are some of the faith-related problems that the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report, published by the US Department of State on Tuesday, noted in the Balkan region.