Restoration works at the church of Panayia in Turkish-occupied Lysi have been completed, the Greek Cypriot Co-Chair of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, Sotos Ktoris has said, while referring to “one of the most emblematic monuments of Cyprus’ modern cultural heritage.”
The Hellenic Air Force is holding a three-day exhibition, which ends on Sunday, at the Syntagma Metro station’s multipurpose hall to mark its patron’s feast day. The event features F-16 and F-35 simulators, VR devices and training school displays.
1875: Verney Cameron reaches Benguela in Angola from Africa’s east coast, the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea 1917: British government proclaims support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration 1930: Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, the 225th Emperor of the Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty […]
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will not have to leave Royal Lodge immediately and could move to Sandringham as late as the new year, the BBC understands. On Thursday, King Charles stripped his younger brother of his titles and honours, and moved to force him out of his Windsor mansion. He will be moving to a property […]
The Cretan Association of Sydney and NSW will mark the 159th anniversary of the Holocaust of the Arkadi Monastery with a series of commemorative and cultural events from 8 to 10 November 2025. The program will begin with the annual Arkadi Dinner Dance on Saturday, 8 November, at the Clairemont Reception Centre in Bankstown. Guests […]
Greece’s European Union-harmonized inflation fell to 1.7% year-on-year in October from 1.8% in September, according to Eurostat preliminary data released on Friday.
1755: Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal 1814: Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars 1894: Vaccine for diphtheria is announced by Dr. Émile Roux of Paris 1916: Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, […]
By Martin Banks With wars still waging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the two-year-old conflict in Sudan has struggled at times to make the international news headlines. But the UN calls it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Andrew is to lose his prince title and will be leaving his Royal Lodge home in Windsor. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor – as he is now to be known – gave up his other royal titles earlier this month, including the Duke of York, after more questions and allegations about his […]
Cyprus marked with a parade the October 28 National Day, when in 1940, the Prime Minister of Greece, Ioannis Metaxas denied Benito Mussolini’s request to allow Italian troops to cross the border into Greece.
