Cyprus celebrates on Tuesday the Dormition of Virgin Mary, a religious and bank holiday, amidst a heatwave, with many flocking to the beach or mountain resorts, and with authorities issuing warnings about increased traffic in some areas, and overcrowded picnic sites.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has attended religious services for the day of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary on the island of Tinos.
Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš announced his resignation on Monday (14 August), blaming a breakdown in relations with parts of his multi-party governing government.
1461: Empire of Trebizond surrenders to forces of Sultan Mehmet II – last Byzantine Empire remnant to fall. Emperor David exiled and later murdered. 1620: Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England, with 102 Pilgrims 1900: The Boxer Rebellion: In China, the Empress, her family and court retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to quell […]
A surprising discovery made by scientists has rekindled the intriguing idea that there might be an additional force of nature beyond the ones we already know. At the moment, scientists believe four main forces govern how things work in the natural world.
President Nikos Christodoulides will further intensify his efforts so that the initiative he has undertaken as regards the Cyprus issue has a positive outcome, a press release by the Presidency of the Republic says, on the occasion of the completion of 49 years since the second phase of the Turkish invasion against Cyprus in 1974.
It is widely expected that Greek debt will finally return to investment grade for the first time since 2010. Some minor credit rating agencies have already gone ahead with the upgrade, though none of the “big four” – DBRS, Fitch, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s – have done so yet.
A German lawmaker said on Sunday (13 August) she was detained for several hours when entering Turkey earlier this month based on social media posts she made in 2019, adding that she would still travel to Turkey and speak her mind about its government.
1281: During Kublai Khan’s second Mongol invasion of Japan his invading Chinese fleet of 3,500 vessels disappears in a typhoon near Japan 1842: Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain 1945: V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to […]
By Dawn LaValle Norman When we conjure up ancient greek philosophers the image that springs to mind might be a bald Socrates discoursing with young men in the sun, or a scholarly Aristotle lecturing among cool columns.
