Significant drop in fraud in credit transfers
Fraud in credit transfers dropped by 55% in terms of numbers and 51% in terms of value, according to data contained in the Bank of Greece’s (BoG) Financial Stability Review released last week.
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HISTORY 
October 28, 2025 28 October 2025: This day in history
1492: Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name “Juana” 1538: The first university in the Americas, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established in Santo Domingo 1746: The Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao are demolished by an earthquake, killing 18,000 1831: Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an […]
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WORLD
October 27, 2025 International troops won’t want to enforce Gaza peace, says King of Jordan
Countries would reject being asked to “enforce” peace in Gaza if deployed under the Trump ceasefire plan, King Abdullah of Jordan has told the BBC. “What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it’s peace enforcing, nobody will want to touch that,” said King […]
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EUROPE
October 27, 2025 Thirty-five MEPs urge European Commission president to push for Várhelyi’s resignation
MEPs from four political groups asked von der Leyen to force Hungarian Commissioner Várhelyi to resign, following allegations of spying by Hungary’s foreign intelligence service.
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GEOPOLITICS
October 27, 2025 East Med negotiations no easy thing
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ proposal for five-nation talks on Eastern Mediterranean issues, with the ultimate goal of reaching an agreement on the delimitation of maritime zones and ending conflicting bilateral arrangements, has not yet been accepted by any of the intended parties (Cyprus, Egypt, Libya, Turkey). But neither has it been rejected yet.
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HISTORY
October 27, 2025 27 October 2025: This day in history
312: Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross 1795: Pinckney’s Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] is signed by Spain and the US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans the right to navigate the Mississippi River 1962: Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile […]
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EUROPE
October 26, 2025 Suspects arrested over theft of jewels at Louvre museum in Paris
Two suspects have been arrested over the theft of precious crown jewels from Paris’s Louvre museum, French media say. The Paris prosecutor’s office said one of the men had been taken into custody as he was preparing to take a flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Items worth €88m (£76m; $102m) were taken from the […]
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GREECE
October 26, 2025 Church of Greece enters age of artificial intelligence
The Church of Greece has entered the age of artificial intelligence with LOGOS, its own AI tool developed by the Metropolis of Nea Ionia, Filadelfia, Iraklio and Halkidona in collaboration with the University of the Aegean.
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EUROPE
October 26, 2025 Brussels Airlines faces labour unrest after firing three cabin crew over pest scare flight refusal
Tensions are rising at Brussels Airlines after the dismissal of three senior flight attendants who refused to operate a flight from Brussels to Accra, Ghana, last Friday due to reports of possible bedbugs or fleas onboard. Both French- and Dutch-speaking unions (BBTK/SETCA and ACV Puls/CNE) have condemned the move as abusive and dangerous, warning of […]
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HISTORY
October 26, 2025 26 October 2025: This day in history
1850: Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time, from Banks Island towards Melville Island 1861: The Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months 1863: International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields, leads to the formation of the Red Cross 1977: Last natural case of […]
