Human activities

The annual report by the Greek Police's Internal Affairs Department has exposed serious corruption in the force, with data for 2018 pointing to a rise in prosecutions against police officers for involvement in organized crime.

The main conclusions of the activity report of the last year of the General mayor and the General Council of the Bucharest Municipality (CGMB), released on Wednesday by ActiveWatch, CeRe and OPTAR, target the lack of communication with citizens - only 1.6 percent of the draft bills being subject to public debate, the actual vagueness of the activity of the municipal companies or the lack of maj

A Pakistani military plane on a training flight crashed into homes near the garrison city of Rawalpindi before dawn on July 30, killing at least 18 people, most of them on the ground.

Seven Turkish female pilots of one of the world's best-known centers for paragliding offer tourists the opportunity to fly high above the Mediterranean landscape of southwestern Turkey.

In 2010, I took on the task of coming up with a strategy for the development of civil society and its role in the Western Balkans. After an inclusive process involving civil society, activists, think tanks, journalists, (not the NGO mafia and the usual suspects - the post conflict mushrooms, as I call them), I crafted a strategy.

At least 38 civilians were killed in a Russian airstrike on July 22 on a marketplace in de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. 

Many motorcycle couriers who work on a freelance basis are demanding that the companies they work for integrate them into the social security system.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has discussed by telephone with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the Russian S-400 missile defence system and the U.S. F-35 fighter jet program, a foreign ministry source said on Saturday.
The source did not say when the conversation took place.

Mountain Rescue Service teams have helped two injured paragliders, the Mountain Rescue Service told Focus News Agency. The two men were injured in paragliding accidents near Dupnitsa. The rescuers have conducted two operations. One of the men is a Japanese. Both were taken to hospital in good condition.

One man was lightly injured on Thursday morning when the single engine Cessna he was piloting made an emergency landing at a rural road near the town of Grevena, western Macedonia.
The aircraft, which had taken off from Corfu and was heading to Thessaloniki, also had two passengers on board who emerged unharmed from the accident.