1498: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India becoming the first European to reach India by sea 1609: William Shakespeare’s Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher Thomas Thorpe 1862: US President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act to provide cheap land for the settlement of the American […]
By Lord Richard Balfe, a former British MEP* There is something fundamentally depressing about the forthcoming Euro elections. The first that the UK will not be involved with. Yet in a way we will be involved because the outcome will shape our relations with each other. The EU Commission has recently outlined a youth mobility […]
By Martin Banks The European Green Party has demanded that the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE),”take measures” towards the liberal party VVD, following the Dutch government coalition deal the VVD concluded with Geert Wilders’ “far-right” PVV.
The anniversary of the 105 years since the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor and Pontus.
Taiwan will feature as the first-ever guest of honor country at the 58th Festival Off Avignon taking place July 3-21 in southeastern France, the Ministry of Culture said May 16. According to the MOC, the country will showcase its cultural diversity and vitality through activities spanning film screenings, local food tastings, promotions of Taiwan’s publishing […]
According to the Sunday Times rich List 2024
Pretty soon, all Special Forces operators will have so-called “loitering munitions” in their backpacks. Ministry of Defense officials are at an advanced stage of talks with their US counterparts to procure Switchblade systems.
Croatia’s parliament on Friday (17 May) approved a new coalition government allying the ruling conservatives with a right-wing nationalist party.
1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason 1643: Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England 1649: England is declared a Commonwealth by an act of the Rump Parliament making England a […]
AKEL will continue to assert for the workers 17 May 2024, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia
