EU undertakes cyber exercise
By Martin Banks Some 5,000 experts have taken part in an EU-wide cyber exercise to test how Europe would respond to attacks on critical transport infrastructure.
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EUROPE
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GREEKS ABROAD 
June 13, 2026 13 June 2026: This day in history
1373: Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world’s oldest still in existence) is signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal [1] 1866: US House of Representatives passes the 14th Amendment (Civil Rights) 1878: Congress of Berlin begins, determines the territories of the states in the Balkan peninsula following […]
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EUROPE
June 12, 2026 Bach…. in Brussels
By Martin Banks Brussels is set to play host to a series of much-awaited concerts dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach. They start this Saturday (June 13) and continue on June 20 and 27, and July 4, at the city’s Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula. The initiative has been organised by the Ars in […]
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WORLD
June 12, 2026 Plea for calm in Belfast amid violent disorder
By Martin Banks MEPs say protests such as those seen this week in Belfast “must remain peaceful and lawful”.
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WORLD
June 12, 2026 Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha dies after more than three years in coma
Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha, who has been in a coma for more than three years, has died, the royal household has announced. She was 47. She collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs. Her doctors attributed it to a severely irregular heartbeat, caused by a mycoplasma infection in her heart. With her death, the Thai […]
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GREEKS ABROAD
June 12, 2026 Angelo Lambrinos named among Queensland’s influential property figures
CEO and Commissioner of the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC), Angelo Lambrinos, has come in at number 35 on The Courier-Mail‘s Queensland Property Power List.
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GEOPOLITICS
June 12, 2026 PM rejects criticism on Turkey policy, says ties with Ankara must be ‘functional’
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday rejected criticism from two former prime ministers from his conservative New Democracy party on the government’s foreign policy on neighboring Turkey, saying he wants relations with Ankara to be “as functional as possible.”
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HISTORY
June 12, 2026 11 June 2026: This day in history
1770: Patent for the ‘Spinning Jenny’, the first multiple spinning machine that revolutionizes cotton spinning, is granted to English weaver James Hargreaves [1] 1830: Beginning of French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers at Sidi Ferruch 1864: Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the […]
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TOURISM
June 11, 2026 JAPAN – A MISSION OF A LIFETIME TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD WITH PLUTON TRAVEL
By Clelia Charisis There are times when the world seems to grow darker. When the news of war weighs heavily on people’s souls, and travel is no longer merely an escape, but a deep need to remember that beauty still exists. In these difficult times, our journey to Japan felt almost like an act of […]
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WORLD
June 11, 2026 US and Iran exchange strikes across Middle East for second day in a row
The US and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, further straining an already shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April. US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of “self-defense strikes” targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran. The attack came hours […]
