Top award for leading airline
By Martin Banks Emirates has been awarded ‘Best Long-Haul Airline 2025’.
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TOURISM
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HISTORY 
December 3, 2025 3 December 2025: This day in history
1586: Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia 1854: Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences 1967: South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the world’s first […]
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EUROPE
December 2, 2025 Roma community “Oscar” winner says: “I finally belong”
By Martin Banks A Romani-Bosnian artist who seeks to empower Roma communities through both her cultural and social work has won a top cultural prize.
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CYPRUS
December 2, 2025 Cyprus’s re-election to the IMO Council a major success
The Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) elected 40 Member States to form its Council for the next two-year term, 2026–2027. The elections were completed on Friday during the proceedings of the Organization’s 34th Assembly, held at its headquarters in London. Cyprus was re-elected, ranking 7th, compared to 12th place in the previous election.
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GEOPOLITICS
December 2, 2025 Greece joins EU defense program
Greece joined 18 other European Union member-states in submitting national plans Sunday for the SAFE (Security Action for Europe) program, which offers low-interest loans to strengthen European defense capabilities.
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HISTORY
December 2, 2025 2 December 2025: This day in history
1804: General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII 1823: US President James Monroe declares the “Monroe Doctrine” opposing European colonialism in the Americas, arguing any European political intervention in the New World would be a hostile act against the […]
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WORLD
December 1, 2025 Pope Leo finds his voice on first foreign trip
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the Lebanese capital Beirut a week after Israeli air strikes hit the Lebanese capital. For a man known for being measured and careful in what he does, it seems quite the statement to land in a country so affected by conflict in what is his first foreign trip. The […]
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EUROPE
December 1, 2025 Germany readies massive defence plan to counter potential Russian threat
Until recently, the so-called Operation Plan Germany was classified. It is now clear that in the event of an armed conflict, Germany would serve as a key hub for NATO defence, in an approach reminiscent of the Cold War era.
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GREECE
December 1, 2025 Tensions rise as farmers clash with police near Larissa
Tensions flared Sunday in the village of Platykampos near Larissa, in central Greece, hours before farmers were due to assemble a major protest blockade in nearby Nikaia.
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HISTORY
December 1, 2025 1 December 2025: This day in history
1913: Ford Motor Company institutes the world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford 1934: Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38 1955: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her […]
