Hotline

A total of 41 girls will return to education thanks to a hotline set up in 2015 to prevent child marriages in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Jan. 2.

North and South Korea installed a telephone hotline between their leaders on April 20 as they prepare for a rare summit next week aimed at resolving the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang.

Posters displaying information on a free hotline offering counselling and help to women subjected to violence have been hung on 50 billboards across the country. 

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) has launched its new and improved Cyberalert center, which allows citizens to call the 11188 hotline to report cyber attacks or crimes.

The new center utilizes voice over IP that is expected to speed up and improve services. It also allows call handlers to connect citizens with a specialized cyber crimes officer at their nearest police precinct.
 

Six air-conditioned venues around the center of Athens will remain open Wednesday as temperatures are expected to remain dangerously high for another day.

City Hall has a 24-hour hotline (1595) that citizens can call for information or to arrange transport for an elderly or disabled person to one of the venues. 

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland that "peace and stability have the greatest importance."

In this regard, Vucic added, he was "also ready to establish a hotline between Belgrade - Pristina.

Cardboard boxes abandoned in front of a bank have been found in the center of Ruse, Bulgaria's sixth-biggest city, triggering alarm among residents, private NOVA TV broadcaster informs.

Police and fire brigade teams have arrived at the site, cordoning off the area.

Residents of a nearby apartment block have been evacuated.

Citizens can book appointments at polyclinics forming part of the streamlined Primary National Healthcare Network (PEDY) from Wednesday as a new telephone service is to start operating several weeks after EOPYY, which PEDY replaces, suspended its phone hotline.