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Within the scope of the government's action plan for Roma citizens, improvements will be made in the field of education, employment, housing, health, social work and welfare and general policy areas.

The villagers, most of whom are Roma, seem to pay little heed to this newly acquired public attention and have mostly already gone back to their daily routines.

The Finsbury Park terrorist, Darren Osborne will spend at least 43 years behind bars after being jailed for life for his murderous attack on Muslims in London last June, according to the Guardian. 

The Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) will soon adopt a state-basis model in its approach to the United States, establishing business councils in a number of states across the country rather than only in the capital Washington, DEİK President Ömer Cihad Vardan has told daily Dünya. 

In a joint press conference on Friday, five ministers heralded a comprehensive plan aimed at cracking down on crime in Menidi, northwestern Athens, where an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet last week, and improving the education and social integration of the area's significant Roma population.

The Onassis Cultural Center presents Moliere's "Don Juan" in a new production by Michail Marmarinos, which adds fragments from other versions of the legend. The cast is led by Haris Frangoulis as Don Juan, Elena Mavridou as Donna Elvira and Yiannis Vogiatzis as Dom Carlos. Performances run from Wednesday, January 25, to Sunday, February 19.

Turkey's first Roma deputy, Özcan Purcu, has drawn attention to discrimination against Roma citizens, citing problems in education, healthcare and equal access to the job market. The deputy asked for "proof of love [for Roma people]" on International Roma Day, marked on April 8 each year, by taking efficient political action, instead of uttering "vain words."

Police in Sparta, in the Peloponnese, have arrested two Roma couples after DNA tests confirmed they were not the biological parents of their two children, a boy and a girl, both aged 4.

Early reports said the two children were not of Roma origin.

They also said the Athens-based charity Smile of the Child had assumed the care of the two children.