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 US authorities have re-opened the San Ysidro port of entry into Mexico after briefly closing it following an attempt by hundreds of migrants to breach a fence, the Customs and Border Protection agency said Sunday, AFP reported.

"We feel you California" is the message that young people from Mati, Neos Voutzas and Kokkino Limanaki, east Attica places ravaged by fire last July 23 posted for their California counterparts.

There is no comparing the scale of the two fires. Still, 99 people perished in Greece's worst such tragedy that unfolded in the space of a few hours.

Sabiha İrem Çevik (R) says she is not the person in the profile photo (L) of the Twitter account opened for her name.

Twitter on Thursday said it had permanently banned Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist best known for calling the 9/11 attacks an inside job and describing the Sandy Hook school massacre as a hoax.

The social network had been under pressure to remove Jones following similar moves by fellow tech giants Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Apple last month.

Twitter's permanent ban of conspiracy-monger Alex Jones on Thursday again underscored the difficulty many social-media services face in trying to consistently apply their rules against harassment and other bad behavior.

Journalism is facing a major crisis on a global scale, as the job becomes more complex and constantly presents fresh dilemmas.

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Russian trolls and bots on Twitter attempted to influence the debate over vaccine safety with the aim of sowing discord among the US public on hot-button issues in the run-up to the 2016 election, US researchers reported this week.

The Turkish lira has witnessed some dramatic price movements in August 2018. Needless to say, changes in capital holdings can significantly explain price variations. While we need to wait until the end of the quarter to see foreigners' capital holdings movements, particularly for August, we can already analyze capital trends between the beginning of the year and end-July.

The US ambassador to Greece has tweeted his congratulations to the Greek Foreign Ministry upon the release of two Greek soldiers freed after months of detention in a Turkish prison.

"Congratulations to all my colleagues at @GreeceMFA," the tweet from Geoffrey Pyatt read.

Twitter's live-streaming service Periscope will be blocked during Turkey's top football league matches, an Istanbul court has said in a landmark ruling.