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Roberta Metsola achieved a number of firsts when she was elected president of the European Parliament a year ago.

She was the first person from Malta, the smallest European Union country, to hold the job; the first woman in 20 years; and, at 43, the youngest president in the Parliament's history.

An Iranian drug lord and nine of his gang members have been detained in a raid by police in Istanbul.

A 2,200-year-old crown and silver bowl have been seized by police in Istanbul during a hotel raid against historical artifact smugglers.

Members of the Rouvikonas anti-establishment group vented their anger at the Agia Zoni II tanker oil spill with a "raid" on a building belonging to the Shipping Ministry in Piraeus on Friday.

A crackdown by police in the area of Menidi, north of Athens, at the site of a former military barracks called Kapota, led to the arrest of 16 people on charges ranging from drugs and arms possession to fraud.

A major ant-terror raid was conducted by Belgian authorities in the region of Schaerbeek, Brussels.

Belgian media reports claim that at least three explosions were heard and that a man was “neutralized” by police during the raid, without mention though whether the person is dead or not.

Belgian police killed a suspect armed with an assault rifle after four officers were wounded on March 15 in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to investigations into November's Islamist attacks in Paris, prosecutors said.

The Belgian authorities have charged a ninth person in connection with last month's deadly Paris attacks, the prosecutor's office said Dec. 24.

A spokesman said the suspect had telephoned Hasna Aitboulachen, the cousin of ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, several times after the Nov. 13 attacks and before a police raid five days later in which they both died.

A 29-year-old man was arrested in the Paris region on Dec. 15 as part of the vast investigation into last month's attacks on the city that left 130 dead, a judicial source said.

Yet another hideout of ISIS terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, mastermind of the Paris attacks on November 13, has been found in Athens. DNA samples of Abaaoud sampled matches registered with the database of the Greek police that were collected from apartments in the Athens neighborhoods of Pangrati and Sepolia in january.