Leading airline records record profits
By Martin Banks The Emirates Group has released its 2024-5 annual report, showing record profits for the year.
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ECONOMY
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EUROPE 
May 9, 2025 EU joins in support for new Pope
By Martin Banks EU figures and MEPs have congratulated the new Pope, Leo XIV, on his election.
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EUROPE
May 9, 2025 Pope Leo XIV holds his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel: ‘We are a community’
Continuing the cycle of traditions that await a new pope, the newly elected pontiff addressed his cardinals in English and Italian.
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HISTORY
May 9, 2025 9 May 2025: This day in history
1386: Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England is ratified at Windsor, cementing and strengthening ties between the two kingdoms. The treaty guarantees the mutual security of both nations and strengthens commercial ties. It is the oldest diplomatic alliance still in force. 1865: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring that armed resistance in the […]
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GREEKS ABROAD
May 8, 2025 Archbishop Makarios welcomes Australian pilgrims to Athens
On May 6, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia welcomed Their Graces Bishop Elpidios of Perth, Bishop Silouan of Adelaide, and Bishop Kyriakos of Melbourne to Athens, Greece.
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TOURISM
May 8, 2025 Greece welcomed 40 million tourists in 2024, says Bank of Greece
Greece experienced another strong year for tourism in 2024, attracting 40.7 million foreign visitors and generating €21.6 billion in tourism revenue, according to data released by the Bank of Greece.
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EUROPE
May 8, 2025 European Parliament: Turkey’s accession on hold, no progress since 2018
Turkey’s EU accession process remains frozen due to democratic backsliding, despite the Mediterranean country’s strategic importance and cooperation on migration, MEPs said in their latest report.
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HISTORY
May 8, 2025 8 May 2025: This day in history
1660: English Parliament proclaims Charles II King of England and invites him to return 1835: First installment of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Fairy Tales” is published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark 1895: China cedes Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki 1902: Mount Pelée on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts, wiping […]
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WORLD
May 7, 2025 Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it
How old is this conflict? Kashmir is an ethnically diverse Himalayan region famed for the beauty of its lakes, meadows and snow-capped mountains. Even before India and Pakistan won their independence from Britain in August 1947, the area was hotly contested. Under the partition plan provided by the Indian Independence Act, Muslim-majority Kashmir was free […]
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CYPRUS
May 7, 2025 Leaders look forward to receiving Holguin in Cyprus the coming weeks UN says
Leaders in Cyprus look forward to receiving UNSG’s personal envoy Maria Ángela Holguín in the coming weeks, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq said Monday, during the news briefing at the UN headquarters in New York.
