Over 200 people attended the annual award ceremony of the Certificates of Attainment in the Greek Language 2024 that took place at Macquarie University’s Arts Precinct on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
Santorini is still being rocked by strong quakes. And those few left on the island are getting tired of the constant state of emergency. Tired also of the diet of constant fearmongering served by the media, of an imminent huge tremor or of the reawakening of the island’s volcano that, around 1600 BC, produced one […]
Munich, Germany – European leaders have convened a series of crisis meetings over the Ukraine peace talks, as the US sends increasingly strong signals that there will be no seat for Europe at the negotiating table.
1659: First known cheque written (£400), now on display at Westminster Abbey 1840: American Charles Wilkes discovers the Shackleton Ice Shelf in Antarctica 1923: Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb and finds the sarcophagus 1959: Fidel Castro becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista 2005: […]
“What I worry about is the threat from within: the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the USA,” JD Vance said.
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo has held extensive consultations in Turkey on a wide range of issues, including on a way forward on the Cyprus issue. DiCarlo wrote on her account on ‘X’ that Turkey’s role as one of the three guarantor powers in the Cyprus context remains critical. “Extensive consultations […]
Food is at the heart of Greek culture, and this year’s Antipodes Festival is celebrating it in style with ‘Taste of the Aegean,’ proudly supported by The Greek Herald.
Athens and Cairo have agreed that the status of the historic St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, which has operated uninterrupted since its founding in AD 546 by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, will be preserved. The Greek Orthodox monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002, holds cultural, religious and historical significance as the world’s oldest continually […]
Munich, Germany – Volodymyr Zelenskyy has advocated for “the armed forces of Europe” to be created to bolster European security amid threats of US disengagement.
399 BC: Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the city and for impiety 590: Khosrau II, the last great Sasanian king, is crowned King of Persia 1763: Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertusburg, marking the end of the French […]
