Security

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Wednesday he personally checked with the United States Embassy and confirmed his US diplomatic or tourist visas were not cancelled.

The three US citizens injured near Bulgaria's Anevo were in fact sent on a mission to test weapons that would then be sold to the Syrian opposition, Reuters reported.

The arms allegedly were going to be used for anti-IS efforts in the region accoridng to an anonymous US military source.

Police officers have slammed parliamentary speaker Zoe Constantopoulou after she allegedly barred riot police from using Parliament?s toilets over the weekend.

MEP Ramona Manescu on Friday said that because of its resources, Romania can get involved and succeed in Europe's cybersecurity as a leading partner in the shaping up of policies and their implementation.

Legislation ending the US government's bulk collection of telephone data is "a historic victory for the rights of every citizen," former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden said in a commentary June 4.

Hackers broke into US government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based in China, US officials said on June 4.

The US government on June 4 admitted hackers accessed the personal data of at least four million current and former federal employees, in a vast cyber-attack suspected to have originated in China.

"As a result of the incident," uncovered in April, the Office of Personnel Management said it "will send notifications to approximately four million individuals."  

The USA informed that the personal financial data of up to four million current and former government officials may have been breached by a cyber attack reportedly originating from China.

Credit card data, banking records and other forms of financial information could have been stolen in the attack, USA Today reports.

Greek police arrested two suspects during a counter-terrorism raid at Nea Agialos in Volos: 44-year-old Spiros Christodoulou and 37-year-old Grigoris Tsironis. The latter had been wanted for years as one of the “robbers in black” that had worked with Marios and Simos Seisidis, two brothers who are wanted.

Greek bonds are the best performing sovereign securities tracked by Bloomberg?s World Bond Indexes in the last month amid optimism an agreement may be within reach.

On Tuesday, the Greek paper rebounded after Monday?s sell-off, with yields on notes due 2017 falling 122 basis points to 22.77 percent.

[Bloomberg]