Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, met on Wednesday evening in the framework of an end of year reception which the UN in Cyprus hosted at Ledra Palace, in the Nicosia buffer zone.
Croatia will join the EU’s passport-free Schengen area in January after EU home affairs ministers approved their application on Thursday (8 December) but again blocked applications by Bulgaria and Romania.
1863: Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South 1941: US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II 1941: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers “Day of Infamy” speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor 1965: Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council 1966: US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit […]
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress removed President Pedro Castillo from office Wednesday, voting to replace him with the vice president, shortly after Castillo decreed the dissolution of the legislature ahead of a scheduled vote to oust him.
Pharmacists are reporting UK-wide shortages of the antibiotics used to treat strep A, despite the health secretary insisting that the government is “not aware” of a problem.
Greek Atlas League presented a tribute concert to celebrate the life of one of Greece’s most influential singers, Mikis Theodorakis.
The creation of the Euromed Tech Hub in Cyprus was unanimously decided last week by the Board of Directors of ANIMA Investment Network, a press release by Invest Cyprus says.
The decision to exclude the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is part of a broader spat between the EU executive and the standardisation organisation, considered to be too driven by the private sector.
43 BC: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae 1909: Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry 1941: Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people 1965: Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led […]
Morocco spectacularly dumped Spain out of the World Cup on penalties on Tuesday afternoon to set up a mouth-watering quarter-final against Portugal or Switzerland.
