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280 New Recruits in Fire Departments

In a week time 280 new recruits will enter the system of the ministry of internal affairs. It is also expected that there will be training for another 250 interns. This was declared by the chief of "Fire safety and protection of people" Nikolay Nikolov during the celebratory oath given by 44 new firefighters.

Hidden trove of suspected Nazi artifacts found in Argentina

In a hidden room in a house near Argentina’s capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country’s history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a macabre medical device used to measure head size.

Police Evacuated Northern Paris Station Searching for Terror Suspects

Armed police closed the Northern Station in Paris last night as they conducted a special operation. The zone was forbidden, and the travelers were evacuated, reported bTV this morning.

Three criminals which are dangerous terror suspects are wanted by the police, according to Telegraph.co.uk.

According to witnesses, passengers were confined to trains. 

Customs seize gold worth RSD 5 million on eastern border

The Serbian Customs Administration announced on Monday that its officers have seized 1.6 kilograms of gold jewelry, along with a 67-gram gold bar.

The value of the items confiscated at the Gradina border crossing between Serbia and Bulgaria has been appraised at over RSD 5 million (about EUR 40,000), the Customs said.

Italian Embassy to pay tribute to POWs who died on SS Oria in 1944

On Sunday at 11 a.m., the Italian Embassy will hold a ceremony at the memorial on the Athens-Sounio road to commemorate the more than 4,000 Italian prisoners of war who perished on the SS Oria off Cape Sounio on February 12, 1944, as they were being shipped to Nazi death camps.

The steamboat went down in a storm and its wreck was discovered by a Greek diver in 1999.

Union accuses government of appointing cronies

Greece's umbrella union for civil servants, known by its acronym ADEDY, on Wednesday accused the government of widespread cronyism.

"ADEDY receives dozens of complaints daily about the appointment of managers to various state services on the basis of clientelist and party-political criteria," the union said in a statement.

Netanyahu and the truth

"I can't stand him. He's a liar," then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy told U.S. President Barack Obama four years ago, in a conversation about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama replied: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day." It was a private conversation, but we know about it because it was accidentally broadcast to journalists.

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