324: Battle of Adrianople: Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats his co-emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium 1187: Battle of Horns of Hattin: Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem’s crusader army 1863: Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War 1884: Dow Jones publishes its […]
Australia will halve the number of arrivals from overseas as its coronavirus hotel quarantine system creaks under pressure from outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.
Germany is set to ease quarantine rules for fully-vaccinated British travellers as Angela Merkel prepares to meet Boris Johnson today for crunch talks at Chequers.
There have been sensational by-election victories in the past. The first Liberal win in a safe Conservative seat in Orpington in 1962; the Scottish National Party breakthrough in Hamilton in 1967; the Liberal destruction of Labour in Bermondsey in 1983; George Galloway’s stealth win in Bradford West in 2012. But Labour’s win in Batley and Spen is one of […]
Government promises to level-up funding in education have resulted in money being shifted away from schools in the most disadvantaged areas and invested in pupils in more prosperous areas of England, according to the official parliamentary spending watchdog.
Up to five million Britons face being locked out of European holidays because their vaccines are not recognised by the EU’s passport scheme, the Telegraph has learned.
FLUSHING, NY – The Gus Cherevas Estia-Pindus AHEPA Chapter 326, which has its base at the St. Nicholas Flushing community, presented scholarships in the amount of $1,500 each to three deserving high school seniors at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church, on June 27. The scholarship recipients are the following: Marie Lolis, John Douveas, and […]
Cyprus Parliamentarian Irene Charalambidou, Head of the Cyprus Delegation in OSCE and special representative on corruption attended Thursday the 2021 remote session of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and in her intervention she noted that the fight against corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing, especially in times of crisis such as the one caused by the Covid-19 […]
A joint press conference between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Slovenian prime minister Janez Janša was dominated with questions over rule of law, media freedom and EU values.
626: Incident at Xuanwu Gate: in fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng 1776: Continental Congress resolves “these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States” 1823: Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese […]
