News archive of June 2020

Police on Friday announced the seizure of a total of 1,272 saplings over a meter high from eight cannabis plantations found during a large-scale land and air operation in the most inaccessible mountainous areas of the Mylopotamos region in Rethymno on the island of Crete. 

Two senior officials from the Chief Directorate for Combatting Organised Crime have been arrested. Another person, who is not a manager, was also detained. The head of the Anti-Drugs Trafficking Department is in custody after receiving a bribe, Chief Prosecutor Ivan Geshev said at an extraordinary briefing on June 26.

H&M is ramping up the pace of store closings in 2020 as it shifts focus to its online business to reflect changing consumer shopping habits in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. 

The historic Athens district of Plaka was almost deserted on a recent visit. Many shops were still closed and my joy at seeing a tourist couple in their mid-20s strolling around holding hands was so great I was tempted to welcome them and ask how they were enjoying themselves. Almost…

Peter Handke, the Austrian author whose Nobel prize was denounced by victims of the war in Bosnia because of his pro-Serbian stance, and dismissal of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, is to get a sculpture in Banja Luka, the main city in Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska.

Scotland's largest city Glasgow was the center of a major incident with reports on June 26 saying that at least three people were stabbed to death and a police officer also stabbed.

Police swarmed the city center and armed police were seen storming a hotel there on a road called West George Street, which has also been shut down.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu welcomes the adoption, on Friday, of the Anniversary Declaration of the Governing Council of the Community of Democracies, in the context of Romania exercising the Presidency of the Community of Democracies (2019-2021).

Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vucic, said that the public will be informed "probably on Monday or Tuesday" about a new date for the resumed Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and for the summit that probably will happen before that. He added it is not up to him to reveal the date, which he knows, but the European Union representatives.

Another person died as a result of the coronavirus infection.
In the last 24 hours, 8.495 people were tested. 
There are 26 patients on respirators.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke on the telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday and agreed that the lines of communication between the two countries need to remain open.