Automation

An explosion at a bank ATM outside a supermarket in Pyrgos, southern Greece, in the early hours of Thursday, caused damage to the façade of the store but no injuries.

According to the police, the unknown perpetrators channeled flammable gas into the machine before igniting it to cause the explosion.

They fled with an undetermined sum of cash from the ATM.

Alpha Bank has unexpectedly decided to shut its branches on the islands of Tilos, Kasos and Lipsoi, forcing local residents to travel by boat to another island to get their banking done, their mayors said on Tuesday, according to the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

Police in Attica on Thursday were seeking the perpetrators who blew open two cash machines outside a supermarket in Varybombi, north of Athens.

The explosions early Thursday morning destroyed the ATMs and also blew out the glass facade of an adjacent store but there were no reports of any injuries.

It was unclear if the perpetrators managed to flee with cash. 

Artificial intelligence, robotics and new technology are bringing sweeping change to the world and according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), one in two jobs is likely to be significantly affected by automation in the next decade.

Just two years and two months after EFKA was created, workers at the Single Social Security Entity are complaining of problems in staffing, in the procurement of supplies and in workplace health standards, as well as a failure to coordinate the information technology systems being used.

When you go to a country with a different currency from yours, the first thing you do is withdraw money from an ATM to have cash. Two Bulgarians took advantage of this, but the Italian police managed to catch them.

A cash machine outside a supermarket was blown up on Tuesday morning in a central street in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri.

The culprits, who made off with an undisclosed amount of money, appeared to have funneled gas into the machine to trigger an explosion.

Unidentified vandals blew up a bank ATM outside a bank in the Athens suburb of Ymittos in the early hours of Monday.

According to police, the vandals probably ignited gas to blow open the device before fleeing with an unspecified sum of cash.

Police are seeking the perpetrators.

Nearly 100 000 leva were stolen from an ATM in Pleven, spokesman for the local prosecutor's office, Reni Kirilova, said on Wednesday.

The crime was committed on Monday. The ATM is located in the Storgozia district of Pleven. According to the investigators, the device was not destroyed or blasted, but was opened by a technical means.

Police officers of the National Police and Sofia Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with ATM thefts, said the Ministry of the Interior press office.