Along the US’s South-eastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth. It’s low tide at Fish Haul Beach, a marshy stretch on Hilton Head Island’s northern fringe. Fish Haul was the first beach I ever visited as a child, and now […]
The Consulate General of Greece in Sydney has held an information session for how Greek citizens living in Australia can register for the Special Electoral Roll and exercise their voting rights through postal voting.
With Giorgia Meloni and Nicușor Dan as first signatories, the group also wants cohesion funding preserved, national rebates scrapped and NextGenerationEU loan repaid more slowly to free up fiscal space.
Electricity providers are shifting more than 3 million of their customers from the green tariffs toward the fixed blue ones.
1537: First printing in England of the complete English-language Bible, the “Matthew’s Bible,” with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (an update of the earlier “Coverdale Bible”) [exact month/day unclear] [1] 1582: Last Julian calendar day in Spain, Portugal, and the Papal States; to sync to the Gregorian calendar 10 days are skipped, and […]
A Russian strike has hit a second major bridge in Kyiv, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has said, as Moscow ramps up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital. The attack on Saturday morning injured two people, and damaged the road surface and overhead trolleybus wires on the Pivnichnyi (Northern) Bridge, Klitschko said, causing traffic jams. It […]
Greece and Bulgaria on Saturday exchanged historic religious artifacts and anthropological remains under an agreement that returns 48 sacred objects to Greece more than a century after they were removed during World War I.
By Martin Banks Europe has no shortage of projects and pilot initiatives showing how tourism can become more sustainable and climate-resilient.
By Martin Banks The European Greens has welcomed what they call the “new momentum” for Britain to rejoin the EU.
2333 BC: According to Korean tradition, the state of Gojoseon, in present-day Korea, is founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the legendary Chinese ruler Yao 52 BC: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia 1283: Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, […]
