1138: Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000 people 1634: Burchardi flood, known as the second “Grote Mandrenke,” kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark, and Germany 1737: An earthquake is reported to have killed 300,000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India, now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane […]
By Martin Baks An expert on European Union affairs says Hungary’s EU presidency programme has “little weight.”
By Martin Banks MEPs in Strasbourg have adopted three resolutions on alleged human rights violations in three countries: Türkiye, China and Iraq.
British computer scientist Professor Demis Hassabis has won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for “revolutionary” work on proteins, the building blocks of life. Prof Hassabis, 48, co-founded the artificial intelligence (AI) company that became Google DeepMind. Professor John Jumper, 39, who worked with Prof Hassabis on the breakthrough, shares the award along […]
On Wednesday, October 9, members of South Australia’s Greek community gathered for the launch of the Dimitria Festival 2024.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will give a “considerable” number of kamikaze drones of an unspecified type to Albania, the country’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has said.
Political groups in the European Parliament are divided over the future of the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) following the news that it could be up for revision, with consultations set to be launched by the end of the year.
680: Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the Atlantic’s deadliest recorded hurricane 1871: The Great Chicago […]
By Martin Banks A top economist has returned to Brussels to take up a top new post.
Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides expressed hope on Tuesday that a positive result will emerge at the informal trilateral dinner with the Turkish Cypriot leader, on October 15, in New York, in the presence of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, adding that the only positive result is the resumption of settlement talks from the point they were […]
