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A 49-year-old schoolteacher from Serres, northern Greece, who has been accused of sexually abusing one of his pupils was remanded in custody on Monday.

The teacher is accused of assaulting the girl, now aged 14, between the summer of 2011 and May this year.

He denies the charges but will be temporarily held at Sidirokastro police station.

BACKO GRADISTE - Over the past one hundred days, much has been done to demonstrate that the Serbian Ministry of Interior can be run differently, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Sunday, noting that a large majority of the members of the police force are competent, responsible and honest people who want to fight corruption, crime and drug dealers.

Romanian policemen are continuing their mission on the Bulgarian littoral, in the August 1-31 period, in the resorts of Albena, Golden Sands and Balchik, providing support for Bulgarian colleagues in their order and public safety missions as well as intermediating communications between Romanian tourists and Bulgarian authorities.

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Svetlozar Lazarov will launch major police raids on the roads countrywide every Friday and Saturday night.

Starting next Friday, some 8,000 police officers will take part in the special police operation. They will inspect all vehicles, focusing on areas near drinking and entertainment establishments, Bulgarian Trud informs.

Hundreds of former municipal policemen have started training with officers from the national force by patrolling the streets of Athens, Kathimerini has learned.

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) is informing that the Police Service of Northern Ireland are investigating recent attacks against Romanians and other Eastern Europeans in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to establish whether or not they can be considered hate crimes.

Increasing amount of illegal online material reported

BELGRADE -- The Net Patrol mechanism for reporting illegal and harmful online content has received more than 900 reports in 11 months.

140 of these have been forwarded to the INHOPE network.

OSCE explores ways to prevent extremism in the Balkans

Experts discuss approaches to counter radicalisation of potential terrorists.

The OSCE and the Balkan countries are working to address political and socio-economic factors that lead to radicalisation and recruitment of terrorists, officials said.

Crimes rates dropped in the first semester of 2014 compared to the previous year, according to a police report released on Thursday. The report showed that there were 52 cases of manslaughter recorded in the first six months this year (six of which were motivated by robbery), compared to 70 recorded in the second semester of 2013, where 21 had been during robberies.