Cyprus ranks first in the European Union for housing conditions, recording the lowest rate of household overcrowding, according to latest Eurostat data for 2024. Just 2.4% of the population in Cyprus lived in overcrowded households, the lowest share among all EU member states.
A Greek woman is among the eight dead passengers of the private Dassault Falcon 50 jet carrying the Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, that crashed Tuesday shortly after take off in Turkey.
1: The first Christmas according to calendar-maker and Eastern Roman monk Dionysius Exiguus 800 Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne) Holy Roman Emperor 1066: William the Conqueror is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, completing the Norman Conquest of England 1741: Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces the Celsius temperature scale, which now bears […]
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been permitted to leave prison to undergo surgery on Christmas Day following approval from Brazil’s Supreme Court, court documents show. Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after he lost the last election in 2022. Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday granted permission for Bolsonaro to […]
Brussels has put forward numerous veto-proof legislative proposals to overcome repeated opposition from Hungary and Slovakia. Experts say the strategy is politically and legally risky. But has it become inevitable?
The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey’s capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognized government said, adding that four others were on the jet as well.
1565: Compromise of the Nobles in Habsburg Netherlands closes against the Inquisition 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States, the United Kingdom and their allies 1851: Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington and destroys 35,000 volumes 1936: First radioactive isotope medicine is administered in Berkeley, California […]
Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region’s maritime infrastructure. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out “systematic” attacks on the region. Last week, he warned that the focus of the war “may have shifted towards Odesa”. President Volodymyr […]
On Monday, December 22, the Great Hall of Saint Andrew’s Theological College in Sydney was filled with festive music as members of the Greek Orthodox Christian Society of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia paid their customary Christmas and New Year visit.
Alternate Finance Minister Nikos Papathanasis, responsible for the Recovery and Resilience Facility, submitted two requests to the European Commission on Monday for the disbursement of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), totaling €1.17 billion.
