Albania returns 6 Syrians who crossed from Greece

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities have returned to Greece six Syrians who had illegally crossed the border.

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Kiley Neushul Leads USA Water Polo Closer to Olympics Berth

The game with GREECE started well when Neushul stole the ball on top and cross-passed to Kami Craig who converted for a 1-0 lead. Craig, a two-time ...

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Athens: Fewer migrants crossing to GREECE from

In the space of 24 hours, only 78 people crossed from the Turkish coast to GREECE's eastern Aegean islands, the Greek refugee crisis committee said.

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Albania Wonders if It Will Be Next Stop on Migrants' Journey

Albania doesn’t plan to erect barriers to keep out migrants even as it braces for the possibility that some of the thousands of those stranded in Greece might seek an alternative route to reach Northern Europe.

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Veroia locals protest Refugees in reception center, throw pigs’ heads

A grisly scene. and a priest in bigotry crisis. Friday night in Veroia in Northern Greece a bus full with Syrian refugees arrives at the reception center. A group of locals has already gathered outside the camp to protest the arrivals. “If they touch even a hair of the nun […]

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Police missed the chance to press Paris attacks suspect on the Brussels bombers

[Salah Abdeslam]AP Images PARIS (Reuters) - Three days before this week's Brussels attacks, police showed photos of the suicide bombers to Salah Abdeslam, whom they had just arrested for his part in the November Paris killings, and failed to challenge his claim not to know them, a report said on Friday. French newspaper Le Monde said it had based its report on the minutes of two hours of interrogation on March 19, the only questioning Abdeslam faced between his arrest a day earlier and the attacks three days later. News channel BFM TV also cited from the minutes of the questioning of Abdeslam, which took place at the federal police headquarters in Brussels. Reuters did not see the minutes and could not independently confirm either report. Belgian police and Abdeslam's lawyer did not immediately respond to phone calls requesting comment. Le Monde said the interviewers focused heavily on the events of Nov. 13 in Paris in which 130 people died, rather than on future plans. Police arrested Abdeslam after they found his fingerprints in an apartment they raided in Brussels' Forest district on March 15 that had been rented by one of the Bakraoui brothers under a false name. Turkey's president this week criticized Belgium for failing to track the brothers -- Brahim, a convicted Belgian armed robber whom it deported last year and who blew himself up at the airport on Tuesday, and Khalid, who set off his suicide vest at a metro station in the city center an hour later. Belgium's prime minister on Thursday rejected resignations by the interior and justice ministers over the failures. Abdeslam is also believed to have driven the car that brought the third Brussels suicide bomber, Najim Laachraoui, to Austria from Hungary in September last year. According to Le Monde, Abdeslam was shown photographs of the Bakraoui brothers the day after his arrest and replied "I don't know them". It said he was not pressed on the subject after that. BFM TV said Abdeslam was shown a photo of Laachraoui and similarly denied knowing him. At least 31 people died in the March 22 Brussels bombings at the airports and in a metro car. Like the Paris attacks, they were claimed by Islamic State, and the killings have raised renewed questions about EU states' ability to respond in an effective, coordinated way to the Islamist militant threat. In the interrogation Abdeslam repeated a claim made to a magistrate that he had backed out of his Paris role as a suicide bomber at the last minute, according to the reports, and said that his part in the attacks was a secondary one as driver and procurer of vehicles and accommodation. NOW WATCH: IAN BREMMER: Greece is headed for a humanitarian disaster

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Belgian nuclear guard shot and security access badge stolen 2 days after Brussels attacks

[Brussels soldiers]Reuters/Benoit Tessier BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear plant was murdered and his pass was stolen, Belgian media reported on Saturday. The French language Derniere Heure (DH) newspaper reported the security guard's badge was de-activated as soon as it was discovered he had been shot dead in the Charleroi region of Belgium and his badge stolen. A police spokeswoman said she could not comment because an investigation was ongoing. In a nation on high alert following this week's attacks, the report stokes fears about the possibility militants are seeking to get hold of nuclear material or planning to attack a nuclear site. On Thursday, DH had reported the suicide bombers who blew themselves up on Tuesday originally considered targeting a nuclear site, but a series of arrests of suspect militants forced them to speed up their plans and instead switch focus to the Belgian capital. Late last year, investigators found a video tracking the movements of a man linked to the country's nuclear industry during a search of a flat as part of investigations into the Islamist militant attack on Paris on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people. The video, lasting several hours, showed footage of the entrance to a home in northern Belgium and the arrival and departure of the director of Belgium's nuclear research program. NOW WATCH: IAN BREMMER: Greece is headed for a humanitarian disaster

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