Prevention

An 18-year-old black teenager was shot and killed by police at a gas station late on Dec. 23 in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August, police and local media said.

A live video feed showed the gas station cordoned off by yellow tape and lined by police officers, with bystanders shouting at them in a tense standoff.

The United States said on Dec. 18 a cyber attack on Sony Pictures was a serious national security matter and the Obama administration was considering a proportional response, although the White House stopped short of blaming North Korea.
   

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Wednesday that the Government will approve the first sanctions in the case of the crash of a medical emergency helicopter in Constanta County and that an external audit needs to be conducted with the Department for Emergency Situations regarding the skills of the people in the system and the procedures to be followed in such situations.

Police on Saturday raided an apartment in central Athens and found more than 91,000 pieces of contraband retail products, including over 33,000 pairs of knock-off designer sunglasses and 24,000 brand labels.

Authorities were looking for the person believed to have been renting the space, located near Omonia Square.

The deputy mayor of Iraklio, Petros Iniotakis, was undergoing treatment at a Cretan hospital on Thursday after being attacked in the city center on Tuesday night.

Iniotakis had two surgeries on Tuesday night after being struck by an assailant wearing brass knuckles.

BELGRADE - Police officials of Serbia, Austria and Switzerland underlined on Wednesday the need to strengthen mutual cooperation in the fight against crime in the region of Southeast Europe and throughout the continent.

The United Nations on Nov. 25 adopted a resolution on protecting digital privacy that for the first time urged governments to offer redress to citizens targeted by mass surveillance.
      

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus went for a bike ride on Oct. 30, defying Maine's order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage.
   

Screening the news on Turkey, both domestic and foreign; one would get the impression that the country is in real trouble

The reassessment of Turkey’s credit rating would be a fair thing to do in light of the country's economic resilience against many challenging factors, the finance minister says