Aftermath of war

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday Serbian police had arrested a man suspected of committing war crimes against Yugoslav Army personnel in Kosovo-Metohija in May 1999.

Dacic explained the crimes had been committed in the area of the Kosare village.

The natural balances (births-deaths) in Greece have changed, turning from positive to negative for the first time in our post-war history, essentially since 2010. The continued increase in the number of elderly has caused a increase in deaths that began in the early 1950s, while the continued decline in the number of children couples have had has caused a decline in births since 1980.

The European Union has extended temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees until March 4, 2026. This decision comes amidst ongoing Russian bombings, highlighted by Belgium's Secretary of State for Refugees and Migration, Nicole de Moor, who leads the negotiations for this extension.

Chef Khane Habdulla, a Kurdish refugee from Iraq, shared her recipes at Dopios restaurant in Athens as part of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) initiative to give refugees opportunities to share their cuisines with the Greek community.

Three bodies have been recovered near the site of a migrant shipwreck between Italy and Greece from which more than 60 people were reported missing, a spokesperson for the Italian coast guard said on Tuesday.

The United Nations' refugee and migration agencies on Friday criticized Greece's failure over the past year to shed light on one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea that left hundreds dead.

The number of people forced to flee their place of residence either within their country or to migrate across borders has been steadily increasing for the last 12 years, according to the UNHCR's annual report on refugees for 2023 published Wednesday and seen by Kathimerini.

Displaced Palestinians gather near a makeshift camp in the area of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 30, 2024,

A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution, the U.N. said Thursday, branding the ever-increasing number a "terrible indictment on the state of the world."

Refugee accommodation facilities and the Asylum Service have no interpreters as the Migration and Asylum Ministry has not renewed their contracts.

The interpreters have not been paid in months by the relevant departments of the ministry, creating major problems in the operation of refugee facilities.

Authorities are eager to see young, highly qualified professionals who chose to move abroad to work in the years of the financial crisis return to Greece. And private companies say they are eager to hire them.

The Labor Ministry has created an online platform, "Rebrain Greece," to help match professionals willing to return home with potential employers.