• WORLD
    Iran faces ‘greatest financial offensive ever’, says US treasury secretary

    The US announced a host of sanctions against Iran and threatened its supporters in what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said was “the single greatest financial offensive ever”. Labelling it an “economic D-Day” for Iran, Bessent said the US would sever all economic ties with the country and added that any nation financially partnering with Iran […]

  • GREEKS ABROAD
    Greece weighs response to Turkish moves

    Greece is preparing a range of responses to growing escalation by Turkey following Ankara’s designation of two maritime parks in the northeastern Aegean and near Kastellorizo, as well as the revival of the long-disputed theory of “gray zones” in the Aegean.

  • HISTORY
    24 August 2026: This day in history

    79: Believed until 2018 to be the date of the massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing untold thousands, latest evidence suggests the eruption occurred after 17 October [1] [2] 410: Rome is overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 […]

  • HISTORY
    23 August 2026: This day in history

    1305: Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London 1542: Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his major work, the “Beit Yosef,” a voluminous commentary on the “Arba’ah Turim” code 1942: Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad, killing 40,000 people 1943: Battle of Kursk, the largest […]

  • SPORTS
    Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

    One week out from the world-renowned Sydney Marathon, organisers face questions about whether designers etched the wrong city’s stadium on the participation medal. The medal appears to feature a stadium carved in the likeness of Allianz Arena in the German city of Munich, rather than Allianz Stadium in Sydney – which the 42.2km (26.2 mile) […]

  • CYPRUS
    Two cases of dengue fever in July in Cyprus, according to SHSO

    Two cases of dengue fever were recorded in July, in Cyprus, according to State Health Services Organisation. In a statement, the Organisation’s press spokesperson, Charalambos Charilaou, clarified that last month “two cases of Dengue fever were recorded, and not of West Nile virus, as has been reported.”

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