France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is holding a crisis cabinet meeting on Monday to assess a weekend of violence and looting across the country, in what were some of the worst scenes of public disorder in modern French history. On Saturday over half a million mainly peaceful protesters demonstrated against rising living costs and dwindling […]
President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman attended the sixth Bicommunal Peace Festival in Pyla on Saturday 17 October, joining Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot residents for an evening promoting peace and cooperation.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would seek a new ambassador to Greece who has the confidence of President Donald Trump, stressing that the resignation of Kimberly Guilfoyle would not signal a weakening of bilateral ties.
202 BC: Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending the Second Punic War 1781: British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 p.m., effectively ending the American Revolutionary War 1943: Streptomycin, […]
By Martin Banks Price hikes, reforms, protests, market consolidation—Belgium’s “titres-services” (subsidized domestic service voucher) system has never been the subject of such intense debate. In Brussels, nine domestic workers have now decided how to respond: they are launching “Les Perles rouges” (The Red Pearls), an agency they co-own. It offers the same services as a […]
A large fire near a Canadian military base in Alberta has killed and injured some people, the defence minister said, without confirming the number of casualties. The Canadian Armed Forces were working with local authorities to manage the fire and were looking into what caused it, David McGuinty said, describing the situation as “very, very […]
Under the dome of the Eugenides Foundation’s new digital planetarium, an audience was invited to travel to the stars on Thursday by two people who defy gravity in practice. Samantha Cristoforetti, a European Space Agency astronaut and the first European woman to command the International Space Station, and Adrianos Golemis, a Greek astronaut preparing for […]
1009: Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the church’s foundations down to the bedrock 1685: French King Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, canceling the rights of French Protestants 1867: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, after paying $7.2 million […]
US President Donald Trump has used his presidential authority to block numerous sanctions on Russia that were recently passed by the US Congress in an effort to punish the country for its war on Ukraine. In an executive order on Friday night, Trump said that it is in the US “national interests” to withhold some […]
Greek Australian artist Ross Leondiou has been named a finalist in the 2026 Brisbane Portrait Prize, with his work Roby among the portraits selected for this year’s competition.
