Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday described the upcoming Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit, where leaders are expected to sign a US-brokered agreement aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza, as a “historic day,” expressing hope it could serve as “the cornerstone for a lasting peace in the Middle East.”
54: Agrippina the Younger murders her husband, Roman Emperor Claudius, with poison to secure the succession for her son Nero 1307: French King Philip IV has Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the Knights Templar arrested and charged with idolatry and corruption 1884: International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, establishes Greenwich in London, England, as […]
The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. Casualties are not yet clear in what the Taliban government called “retaliatory operations”, after it claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said the […]
Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Marilena Evangelou, announced on Wednesday that the Council of Ministers approved a new co-financed project, with a funding of 10 million euros, entitled “New Network of Social Integration Services for People with Disabilities”. Evangelou also announced that the Council of Ministers decided to appoint Elena Pericleous as Commissioner for the […]
Greece’s minister of development, Takis Theodorikakos, last Thursday inaugurated the “Hellenic Aluminium Exhibition 2025” at the Metropolitan Expo Center in eastern Attica.
539 BC: Army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon 1279: Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon 1492: Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall on a Caribbean island he names San Salvador (likely Watling Island, Bahamas). The explorer believes he has reached East Asia (OS 21 Oct) 1864: Brazilian […]
By Martin Banks This Saturday, 11 October, the weekly Stockel Market will host the launch of a heart-warming initiative called “Solo & Saveurs / Solo & Smaak”.
For the first time in Australia, a specialized online summer school will be held for teachers of the Greek language in the diaspora. Running from 12 to 22 January 2026 during the afternoon (AEST), the intensive professional development program will provide teachers with the latest tools, strategies, and resources for teaching Greek as a second […]
The European Commission appears to have been unaware of the Greek Agriculture Ministry’s decision to pull the plug on the 2024 subsidy program for organic farming. Sources in Brussels, in fact, told Kathimerini that officials learned about it from the Greek press, saying they should have been officially informed.
1138: Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000 people 1634: Burchardi flood, known as the second “Grote Mandrenke,” kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark, and Germany 1737: An earthquake is reported to have killed 300,000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India, now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane […]
