After months of marathon talks, Hamas has, for the first time, accepted a framework of the Board of Peace’s plan to completely disarm in Gaza. The plan provides for the inventorying and storage of its remaining heavy weapons under Palestinian supervision, potentially removing the most significant obstacle to advancing the Trump-backed peace initiative for Gaza. The move […]
Statistical Service data regarding tourism revenue for the month of May, as well as for the first five months of the year, confirm that tourism is back on a “stable trajectory,” Deputy Minister of Tourism, Kostas Koumis said.
National Bank of Greece (NBG) recorded profits of €661 million in the first half of the year, it announced on Thursday.
1620: Pilgrim Fathers depart Leiden, Netherlands, for England on their way to America British Royal Field Artillery gunners hauling an 18-pounder field gun out of the mudBattle of Passchendaele 1917: World War I’s Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins and lasts until November 6, 1917, causing approximately 500,000 casualties 1961: Israel welcomes its […]
Former top US health official Anthony Fauci has refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury. He invoked the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, which says nobody can be “compelled in any criminal case to be […]
World Greek Language Day has entered a new era, with the initiative now officially trademarked and formally established as an incorporated Victorian organisation.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has expressed his condolences to the families and colleagues of three firefighters who died Wednesday battling wildfires in Crete and the southern mainland.
1588: The “Invincible” Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, and several skirmishes follow, forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland 1609: Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York, setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years 1848: Irish […]
By Martin Banks MEPs have called on the EU to “urgently implement a European heatwave action plan.”
By Martin Banks leading hotels association has welcomed ten new members to the fold.
