EU to replace passport stamps with biometric border system
The European Union is set to phase out passport stamping for non-EU travelers, replacing it with a new digital border management system known as the Entry/Exit System (EES).
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HISTORY 
October 7, 2025 7 October 2025: This day in history
1571: Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of Catholic states formed by Pope Pius V destroys an Ottoman fleet in a significant defeat off Western Greece 1737: A cyclone causes 40-foot waves that are believed to kill 300,000 in Calcutta, India 1763: George III of Great Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North […]
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EUROPE
October 6, 2025 French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month
France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has resigned, less than a day after his cabinet was unveiled. “The conditions were not fulfilled for me to carry on as prime minister,” Lecornu said on Monday morning, and criticised the unwillingness by political parties to reach compromises. The Elysée palace made the announcement after Lecornu met President Emmanuel […]
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GREEKS ABROAD
October 6, 2025 Zeibekiko Festival Australia kicks off in Sydney with music, memory and movement
The 3rd Zeibekiko Festival Australia launched in dazzling style on Friday, 3 October 2025, at the Greek Community Club in Sydney – transforming the night into a celebration of music, movement and memory.
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POLITICS
October 6, 2025 Former PM Tsipras resigns as MP, pledges continued political activism
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday resigned as a member of parliament, saying he would continue his political activism outside the formal structures of the legislature.
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HISTORY
October 6, 2025 6 October 2025: This day in history
1917: Third Battle of Ypres: Canadian troops recapture the high ground in the village of Passchendaele from the 1948: Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic 1948: Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans, on Rusinga Island, Kenya 1949: US President […]
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WORLD
October 5, 2025 Georgia protesters try to storm Tbilisi presidential palace
Police in Georgia have arrested five people after clashes with anti-government protesters trying to storm the presidential palace in the capital, Tbilisi. Security forces used water cannons and pepper spray to disperse demonstrators. The Caucasus country has been in crisis since the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in last year’s election, which the pro-European Union […]
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CYPRUS
October 5, 2025 Ukrainian President thanks Cyprus for its support
President of Urkaine Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Cyprus for its support and its participation in the Coalition of the Willing for a peace in Ukraine. Zelenskyy met Thursday with President Nikos Christodoulides in Copenhagen on the sidelines of the informal European Council and the meeting of the European Political Community. Zelenskyy posted on X that together […]
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GEOPOLITICS
October 5, 2025 Tensions rise over Great Sea Interconnector project
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called a meeting on Sunday afternoon regarding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), with the participation of the leadership of the Environment and Energy Ministry and ADMIE, Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator.
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HISTORY
October 5, 2025 5 October 2025: This day in history
1274: Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army land on the Japanese island of Tsushima in the first attack of Kublai Khan’s Mongol invasion of Japan 1789: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand […]
