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Five Greek police officers in custody pending trial for assisting illegal migrant crossings
Five police officers accused of cooperating with human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece are being held in custody pending trial.
The five officers had been testifying before an examining magistrate since Saturday morning at the border town of Orestiada, in northeastern Greece.
Police investigate farmer’s murder
Police in northeastern Greece investigating the murder of a 68-year-old sheep farmer are understood to be focusing on members of the woman's family in order to identify the perpetrator.
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Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years
Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country's oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern humans' hominin ancestors.
EU doubles firefighting fleet in preparation for climate change impacts
The EU has said it is doubling its aerial firefighting fleet for the summer of 2023, citing challenges such as increasing forest fires due to the climate crisis.
Alert for summer fires
Higher temperatures are coming soon in Greece, and with them the dreaded wildfire alerts. And, this year, the danger could be heightened because of low rain and snow coverage during the winter months.
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Bulgaria fails to achieve Good Placement in Sustainable Tourism Ranking
United States at gunpoint: China will attack?
In the warning issued on Wednesday, which came from several countries, it was revealed that Chinese cyber espionage was aimed at military and government organizations in the US, Reuters reported.
The Chinese government has rejected claims it is spying on Western targets, calling the warning from the US and its allies a "collective disinformation campaign".
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To find Europe’s best bike routes, a cycling writer asked the crowd
When it came time to put together "Cycling Atlas Europe," a new guidebook detailing 350 single-day rides across the continent, sports writer and cycling expert Claude Droussent, 65, knew where to turn: Strava, a fitness app that lets cyclists (and runners and hikers) record their routes with GPS and then share them with one another, and that calls itself "the largest sports community in the wor
Second-term complacency a self-fulfilling prophecy
Every government that has made it to a second term has found itself sinking into a mire of inertia and ineffectiveness. Some also descended into corruption. What we have learned from these examples is that over-familiarity with power can lead to abuses in how it is exercised and that this has a paralytic effect on the entire government's operation.
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Congress tourism in Istanbul booming again
Istanbul, Türkiye's financial and commercial capital, is experiencing a revival in congress tourism this year, with dozens of international events planned for 2023.
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