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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.

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.

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".

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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