US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced “tremendous” new sanctions against two of Russia’s largest oil companies, in a bid to pressure Moscow into ending the war on Ukraine. The sanctions, announced via Trump’s Truth Social platform, target Rosneft and Lukoil – two major oil corporations that help fund the Kremlin’s “war machine”, according to […]
At the Law Institute of Victoria’s annual awards ceremony in October 2025, Elena Pappas, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women (LACW), was recognised with the prestigious Stephen Myall Award.
The declared strategic interest of the US to make Greece a gateway for the transport of American LNG from the Revithousa and Alexandroupoli terminals via the Vertical Gas Corridor to Eastern Europe will be confirmed by the contacts that US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will have in Athens on November […]
42 BC: Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Brutus’s army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide. 1911: First aerial reconnaissance mission is flown by an Italian pilot over Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War 1942: During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt 1977: Paleontologist […]
By Martin Banks An extra two billion people could be fed every year and land around the size of Mexico would be freed up to grow food for people if we ended the feeding of grain to factory farmed animals, according to a new report by Compassion in World Farming.
By Martin Banks The EU and Volodymyr Zelensky have joined forces in a fresh attempt to being peace to war-torn Ukraine.
Popular Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, known for his allegorical and deeply poetic lyrics that commented on Greek politics, identity and society, has died. He was 80.
1633: Battle of Liaoluo Bay: Dutch East India Company is defeated by Chinese Ming naval forces in the southern Fujian Sea 1721: Tsar Peter the Great titles himself “Emperor of All Russia” 1879: Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb 1884: International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide […]
Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Not since World War Two Nazi collaborationist leader Philippe Pétain was jailed for treason in 1945 has any French ex-leader gone behind […]
A moderate won Turkish Cypriot presidential elections on Sunday, defeating a hardliner in a pivotal vote that could help revive stalled U.N. talks on reunifying divided Cyprus. Centre-left politician Tufan Erhuman sailed to victory in polls with 62.8% of the vote from just over 218,000 registered voters, defeating incumbent Ersin Tatar on a platform of […]
