1500: Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first European to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal and claiming it for Portugal 1915: First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies along the Western Front at Ypres, France in World War I [1] 1993: Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, […]
ATHENS – Laura Kövesi, the European chief public prosecutor, arrives in the Greek capital on Wednesday as the government clashes with her office over a fraud probe targeting ruling party MPs.
At a time that is both crucial and fluid in geopolitical terms, French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet on Friday, April 24, at 19:30 at the archaeological site of the Roman Agora in Athens to discuss challenges currently facing Europe and the way ahead.
753 BC: Romulus and Remus found Rome, according to Roman foundation mythology 1526: First Battle of Panipat: Central Asian conqueror Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, establishing the Mughal Empire in India 1792: Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes is hanged, drawn, and quartered in Rio de Janeiro 1863: Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, enters the Garden of […]
Throughout US President Donald Trump’s second term in office, traders have been betting millions of dollars just before he makes major announcements. The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets and matched them to some of the president’s most significant market-moving statements. It found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or […]
Cyprus has pledged to provide at least €850,000 as humanitarian assistance in Sudan and the neighbouring countries in 2026, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Lefkada MP Athanasios Kavvadas has been appointed deputy agriculture minister following the resignation of Makarios Lazaridis, the government said Monday.
1290: Round Table tournament held near Winchester, England, in imitation of King Arthur, to commemorate betrothal of daughter of Edward I, and attended by the king 1862: First pasteurization test is completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride 1968: British politician Enoch Powell […]
The UK and France will lead a multinational mission to protect commercial shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking after a meeting of 51 countries, the prime minister underlined the work would be “strictly peaceful and defensive” and would only be put in place once fighting in the region […]
St Spyridon Greek Orthodox Parish in Sydney, a designated war memorial church, will host a special ANZAC Day service this Sunday, April 19, bringing together the community to honour Australians and Greeks who served and died in war.
