Germany to stop funding sea rescue charities
The German government is planning to stop funding Mediterranean sea rescue charities after being slammed by Italy over the issue, the popular Bild daily reported on Friday (6 October).
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HISTORY 
October 7, 2023 7 October 2023: This day in history
1571: Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations formed by Pope Pius V destroy an Ottoman fleet in a significant loss off Western Greece 1737: A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India 1763: George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west […]
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HISTORY
October 6, 2023 Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot Story
The legendary cutting of the Gordian Knot by Alexander the Great became a metaphor for solving difficult problems by employing simple, drastic solutions.
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CYPRUS
October 6, 2023 Breathtaking geological phenomenon in occupied Davlos, Cyprus
On the borders of the occupied village of Davlos, at the location of Vikli (Galounia) lays an amazing geological formation consisting of a series of alternating layers of clay, marl, sandstone, limestone and other rocks. The area in the past was identified, by older researchers, with the famous “Achaean Coast”, mentioned by the ancient geographer […]
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GREECE
October 6, 2023 Popular film actress Mary Chronopoulou dies, aged 90
One of the best-loved film actresses of the heyday of Greek cinema, Mary Chronopoulou, died on Friday in Evangelismos Hospital in Athens, at the age of 90. Chronopoulou had been admitted to hospital a few days earlier with serious injuries after a fall in her home.
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POLITICS
October 6, 2023 Slovak president halts military aid to Ukraine amid coalition talks
President Zuzana Čaputová moved to prevent the technocratic interim government from sending a shipment of weapons to Ukraine at a time when Robert Fico, who promised not to send “one more bullet”, is trying to form a government.
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HISTORY
October 6, 2023 6 October 2023: This day in history
1917: Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides 1939: Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem 1948: Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic 1948: Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and […]
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WORLD
October 5, 2023 MA Degree in Magic Offered at a British University
The University of Exeter is launching a new program in September 2024 called the MA in Magic and Occult Science. This program is all about exploring ideas in a different way, according to its leader, Professor Emily Selove.
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CYPRUS
October 5, 2023 Cyprus Forestry Department to get three more firefighting aircraft
The Forestry Department will be reinforced with three more firefighting aircraft, following a decision on Tuesday by the inter-ministerial committee that met at the Presidential Palace, to discuss the handling of fires and other extreme natural phenomena, such as floods.
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GREECE
October 5, 2023 Olive oil producers call for investigation into produce heist
Twenty five olive oil producers who stored their production in an agricultural cooperative in Polygyros, northern Greece, from where it recently disappeared have filed criminal charges against unknown persons with the security police asking authorities to investigate how this happened and who is behind it.
