BREAKING: Greece gives greenlight to travellers from EU, US, UK, Israel, Serbia, and UAE without quarantine

❗️Athens announced on Monday that travellers from multiple countries who have a negative PCR test or have been vaccinated against the coronavirus can enter Greece without quarantining.

The list includes the European Union, the United States, United Kingdom, Serbia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Their nationals will be allowed to travel to Greece via the airports of Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Chania, Rhodes, Kos, Mykonos, Santorini, and Corfu, as well as two border crossings.

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▪️ Police have identified a former sheriff's detective as a suspect behind Sunday’s shooting in Austin, where at least three people were killed; a manhunt is underway

▪️ NASA engineers have successfully launched the Ingenuity helicopter from Mars' surface

▪️ America’s JPMorgan Chase to finance the newly announced football Super League, which will include 12 major clubs from England, Spain, and Italy

▪️ Vandals left a pig's head at the former house of Barry Brodd, a witness in the George Floyd murder trial

▪️ At least two male passengers died in an autopiloted Tesla crash in Spring, Texas, near the city of Houston on Saturday night

▪️ Minneapolis and other US cities are bracing for potential civil unrest as Derek Chauvin's trial enters its final phase

❗️Russian MiG-31 fighter intercepts American and Norwegian aircraft over Barents Sea

Closing arguments in Chauvin’s trial begin

UPDATE | Prosecutor presents arguments in court: 'This is not trial of George Floyd'

The trial of Chauvin has entered its concluding stages, with the jury's deliberation and verdict expected as early as this week.

Facebook promised in the post it will allow people to discuss, critique and criticise the trial and the attorneys involved but will remove pages, groups, Instagram accounts, and events that contain calls to take up arms or violate community policies on violence and hate speech.

The White House is standing down the two emergency teams it set up to direct the US government's response to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacking incidents.

The Biden administration is doing so “due to the vastly increased patching and reduction in victims”. Further responses will be handled through standard incident management procedures.

UPDATE: The defence for former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin said that the prosecution failed to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" criteria in its effort to prove his guilt in the death of George Floyd in police custody.

UPDATE: Washington, DC authorities have requested assistance from National Guard ahead of the conclusion of the court trial of Derek Chauvin in Minnesota, national capital Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters on Monday.

🚸 The Biden administration has consistently avoided calling the situation at the border a "crisis", and this time the White House backtracked on language used by US President Joe Biden on 17 April as he spoke about a "crisis" of migrants flooding the US southern border with Mexico.

The White House official hurried to explain that POTUS was not referring to a humanitarian situation in crowded detention centres when he spoke of a "crisis", but rather was referring to the state of affairs in the Central American countries which has contributed to the high rate of migrants headed to the US.

The "Don't say it!" game continues...

UPDATE: The prosecution told jurors that the case is not against all law enforcement, calling policing a "noble" profession.

MORE | Pentagon is reviewing National Guard request from Washington mayor.

UPDATE | Jury retires to begin deliberations in Derek Chauvin's trial.

Manhunt ends as authorities arrest ex-Sheriff's Deputy Stephen Broderick suspected of killing three.

Authorities were reportedly tipped off by an anonymous individual who spotted Broderick based on a police denoscription.

The Biden administration will reportedly remove terms including “alien”, “illegal alien” and “assimilation” from immigration law.

Advocates for immigrants point out that the terms are archaic and “dehumanizing”; as “alien” tends to conjure images of fictional creatures in the human imagination, rather than people, and “should be scrapped in favor of a more civil tone”.

But can new names fix old problems?

📱 Apple signals the return of the Parler app with updated content moderation features introduced since the social media platform was pulled in the wake of the deadly 6 January Capitol riot.

"Huge win for free speech”, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) commented on the letter from Apple saying that the company "anticipates that the updated Parler app will become available immediately upon Parler releasing it".

#BREAKING | Former US Vice President Walter Mondale died on Monday at the age of 93, according to a statement from his family.

❗️Jimmy Carter expresses condolences over former VP Walter Mondale death.

MORE | Demonstrators marching in Minneapolis as Chauvin trial nears end - reports.

UPDATE | Jury in Chauvin's trial retires for the night, deliberations set to resume on Tuesday.