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Police said they have destroyed more than 1,500 cannabis plants during an operation in the island of Crete.

Police said a helicopter was used to spot the illegal crop in the area of Rethymno.

The plants, reaching up to 1 meter in height, were uprooted by officials. There were no reports of arrests.

With 66 new HIV infections reported last year between January and October, Cyprus health authorities say there has been a rise of cases in the past two years.

Moreover, authorities point to 80 HIV infections in 2015 compared to 41 in 2010.

Women say hello to your new breast friend – the Ta-Ta Towel!

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) released a report revealing the working conditions of research assistants at the universities' medical faculties, indicating that 15.4 percent of the assistants "almost never" work with academics, whereas 3.9 percent "never" work with academics.

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President of the Serbian Commission for Missing Persons Veljko Odalovic says there are still 10,600 persons listed as missing in the region.

"Time is not an ally in solving the issue," he remarked.

More than 3,000 firemen struggled to put out forest fires across Portugal on Sunday, after the country requested assistance from Europe to fight blazes that threaten to spread with more hot weather in the coming days, reported Reuters.

At least 60 children have died at a public hospital in northern India, officials say, amid allegations that the oxygen supply was cut over unpaid bills, reported BBC.

Officials in Uttar Pradesh state admitted the supply had been disrupted but said this did not cause the deaths.

Four more professional fields in universities become priorities - philology, history, philosophy and religion. Thus the majors that are important for our economy, which the state will support with higher reception and a larger subsidy, will increase from 32 to 36. This is the result of the changes in student admissions adopted by the Council of Ministers yesterday. Reports SEGA. 

Pharmacists in the greater Athens area have said that they will refuse to provide customers insured with state health care provider EOPYY with medical supplies and equipment on credit for a second week in protest at the failure of the organization to settle its debts.

Families of hearing impaired children have launched a campaign on change.org after recent claims that special schools offering education for children with permanent hearing loss under the auspices of the Turkish Education Ministry will be closed down.