Security

In a statement on an anti-establishment website Thursday, a group calling itself "Comrades" claimed responsibility for a firebomb attack on a police unit in Exarchia, central Athens, on November 7, in which a police officer was injured.

The EU Council approved an additional list of 13 joint European defense projects covering the areas of biological and chemical protection, space and cybersecurity.

Today's decision increases the number of ongoing projects of the structured cooperation and defense policy to 47, the report said.

The biggest challenge facing Greece's new government is without a doubt managing the ongoing migration and refugee crises, and for many reasons too.

Mali expects that this will be realized by the end of the year.
"We are negotiating intensively and I think we will be admitted to Euroclear in the next couple of weeks, i.e. by the end of the year, which will further increase the demand for our securities", Mali told reporters.

Unidentified assailants used sledgehammers to smash the facade of a bank on Vouliagmenis Avenue in the Athens suburb of Dafni in the early hours of Monday morning. 

The attack, which occurred at 2.30 a.m., was recorded by surveillance cameras, according to the police who were seeking the perpetrators. 

The Greek government remained a "cooperative counterterrorism partner" of the United States in 2018 and improved its tools and information exchange to vet undocumented migrants who continue to arrive in significant numbers, the State Department said for the country in its annual report on terrorism.

The US embassy in Montenegro has paid tribute to an elite team of American cyber experts working in the Balkan country for a second year to generate fresh insights into adversarial cyber threats as elections loom in both the US and Montenegro in 2020.

Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the digital governance minister, reiterated on Thursday a government pledge to have the pan-EU 112 emergency phone number up and running by the end of 2019.

Russian hackers piggy-backed on an Iranian cyber-espionage operation to attack government and industry organizations in dozens of countries while masquerading as attackers from the Iran, British and U.S. officials said on Oct. 21.

One man was detained in a preliminary arrest in France on suspicion of planning a September 11-style plane hijacking and attack. This was announced by French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, quoted by the Associated Press.