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A Europe-wide police unit is to be set up next month with the aim of shutting down social media accounts used by key Islamic State  of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants to spread propaganda and recruit foreigners to their cause, Europol said on June 22. 

A car bomb near a mosque in Sanaa kills two people, as Saudi-led warplanes bombarded second city Aden, after peace talks end without agreement The explosion in Sanaa, controlled by Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, went off outside the Kobbat al-Mehdi mosque as Shiite Muslims emerged from midday prayers, witnesses and security sources said.

Lawyers for war crimes defendant Goran Hadzic, who was temporarily released for cancer treatment, asked the Hague Tribunal to stop or suspend the trial because he has not long to live.

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic has said that criminal proceedings against Naser Oric cannot be transferred to the Bosnian prosecution.

The reason, Vukcevic explained, is that the families of the victims have not given their consent.

Bulgaria ranked 32nd in the 2015 Global Peace Index with a score of 1.607, with the state of peace in the country identified as "high".

Thus, the country's score has slightly deteriorated from 2014, when Bulgaria ranked 29th.

Greece?s civil servants? union ADEDY has called on members and supporters to participate in a rally on Syntagma Square, central Athens, on Sunday at 7 p.m.

The protest is being organized in protest at ongoing austerity measures.

The youngest victim of the Gezi Park protests, 14 year-old Berkin Elvan, was commemorated June 16 where he was shot by a tear gas canister in Istanbul on June 16, 2013.

Elvan died in March 2014 after lying in a coma for 269 days. Carnations and bread were laid where he was shot.

Turkish soldiers have detained five men from Syria, supposedly Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters, near the Akçakale crossing gate between Turkey and Syria.
 

Unidentified arsonists on Thursday targeted bank ATMs in three Athens neighborhoods, Kypseli, Nea Ionia and Patissa, causing significant damage but no injuries.

Police did not confirm whether the attacks were related.

NATO chief offers condolences to families of victims

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the loss of all lives during NATO's bombing campaign against the SRJ represented "a tragedy."