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A woman reacts near flowers near the site where a concrete wall at an elementary school fell onto the street and killed a 9-year-old, in Takatsuki, Osaka, western Japan, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP

A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world's oldest person died on April 21, Kyodo news agency said. She was 117.

AGERPRES Director General Alexandru Giboi was nominated as candidate for the Secretary General position of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).

BELGRADE - The Tanjug News Agency has since Tuesday been targeted by intensive hacker attacks from over 50 different IP addresses.

The attacks are aimed at taking down the agency's IT system through its website and at rendering Tanjug unable to operate and making its services unavailable to media and other subscribers.

The Bulgarian Telegraph Agency is 120 years old. It was founded in 1898 by the decree of Prince Ferdinand. The Agency is the main and most modern source of information for the print and electronic media, the state institutions and the non-governmental organizations in Bulgaria.

The locker and pump room of the municipal sports stadium in Mandra, western Attica, was built over a stream illegally, an inspection has found, making it the second municipal property to be found in serious violation of zoning rules.

South Korean guards fired up to 20 warning shots at North Korean troops searching for a soldier who had defected yesterday, Yonhap news agency said, after officials in the South confirmed the latest defection across the heavily militarized border.

Panteion University in Athens on Tuesday inaugurated the so-called "Iranian corner" at the institution's library. University rector Ismini Kriari and Iran's cultural attache Ali Muhammad Helmi presided over the opening. "It contains books that are about Iranian culture, history and contemporary political issues," said Kriari of the collection.

The majority of Germans are looking to take their holidays closer to home next summer, with Greece being a favorite, even though exotic destinations continue to be alluring, a German newspaper has reported.

FRANKFURT - Representatives of European news agencies, including Tanjug, have agreed to cooperate with the China Economic Information Service (CEIS) - an affiliate of the Chinese state-owned news agency Xinhua - on exchange of economic and financial information related to the Belt and Road project.