Stock market goes back to mild gains
Following Monday’s correction, the Athens Stock Exchange went back to its recent mode of mild gains Tuesday.
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HISTORY 
August 20, 2025 20 August 2025: This day in history
1597: First Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East 1619: Slavery begins in mainland British colonies of North America when the first known African captives (approximately 20) land at Point Comfort, Virginia, before being sold or traded into servitude [1] 1741: Alaska is first sighted by a Russian expedition led by Danish […]
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EUROPE
August 19, 2025 Statement by Commissioner Lahbib on the 2025 World Humanitarian Day
By Martin Banks Humanitarian aid will remain “a beacon of hope”
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WORLD
August 19, 2025 Up, up and away for great family fun this summer
By Martin Banks Here’s an offer you may find hard to refuse, especially those travelling with families during the current summer vacation.
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WORLD
August 19, 2025 Russia Must Free The Captives of their Invasion
By Martin Bsnks Freeing all the unlawfully detained in the Ukraine war should be an absolute priority.
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HISTORY
August 19, 2025 19 August 2025: This day in history
43 BC: Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him consul 1839: Louis Daguerre’s daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published “free to the world” in Paris as a gift from the French government 1942: World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers are killed, wounded, or captured during […]
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WORLD
August 18, 2025 Alaska summit ‘a wake-up call’
By Martin Banks Denis MacShane, the former Europe Minister in the UK, says the Alaska summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin should be a “wake-up call”.
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WORLD
August 18, 2025 Whirlwind day of White House talks could reshape Ukraine’s future
It is quite possible that Monday’s meeting in the White House could prove even more crucial to the future of Ukraine – and for all of Europe’s security – than last Friday’s US-Russia summit in Alaska. On the surface, that Putin-Trump reunion seemed to live down to every expectation. There were no ceasefire, no sanctions, […]
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POLITICS
August 18, 2025 PM pressed for change of electoral law
Discussions about changing Greece’s electoral law persist behind the scenes, even as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has repeatedly denied any intention to do so, according to government sources and lawmakers.
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HISTORY
August 18, 2025 18 August 2025: This day in history
1737: First public admission to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris 1838: United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica 1919: Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois 1920: State Representative Harry T. Burn (24) casts the deciding vote in Tennessee’s and […]
