US President Donald Trump has said Canada wants “the benefits of being a State, without being one” after trade talks between the two countries collapsed late on Friday. In his first comments since negotiations broke down, triggering new 50% US tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, Trump also said American farmers had been charged […]
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) has reaffirmed its commitment to the continuation of Classical Greek education in Victoria, launching a series of initiatives designed to strengthen the program and secure its long-term future.
Greece is moving a Patriot air defense battery from the island of Karpathos to Crete to strengthen defenses around the strategically important Souda Bay area, according to sources cited by Kathimerini.
1305: Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London 1542: Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his major work, the “Beit Yosef,” a voluminous commentary on the “Arba’ah Turim” code 1942: Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad, killing 40,000 people 1943: Battle of Kursk, the largest […]
One week out from the world-renowned Sydney Marathon, organisers face questions about whether designers etched the wrong city’s stadium on the participation medal. The medal appears to feature a stadium carved in the likeness of Allianz Arena in the German city of Munich, rather than Allianz Stadium in Sydney – which the 42.2km (26.2 mile) […]
Two cases of dengue fever were recorded in July, in Cyprus, according to State Health Services Organisation. In a statement, the Organisation’s press spokesperson, Charalambos Charilaou, clarified that last month “two cases of Dengue fever were recorded, and not of West Nile virus, as has been reported.”
Greece has entered the grip of a heatwave, with temperatures locally expected to exceed 40 degrees Celsius.
1485: Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor’s forces defeat English King Richard III during the last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, becoming the last English monarch to die in battle. 1639: Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from […]
The EU has spoken out in support of “all those who have suffered under totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.” This comes on the eve of the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance of the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes on 23 August. Ahead of the Day, senior EU political figures have issued a strongly-worded statement against […]
By Martin Banks Special events will take place this weekend to mark the anniversary of the First Battle of Mons on 23 August, the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I.
