660 BC: Traditional date for the founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu 1858: First vision of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France 1929: Vatican City, the world’s smallest country, becomes an enclave of Rome 1945: Declaration of Liberated Europe is signed at the Yalta Conference by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and […]
By Mensur Haliti, Vice President for Democracy and Governance at the Roma Foundation for Europe
Sydney will host the 12th International Summer University “Greek Language, Culture and Media” from 6 to 11 September 2026, bringing together academics, educators, students and community leaders to explore the past, present and future of the Greek language in Australia and the diaspora.
With four new, powerful digital instruments financed by the Recovery and Resilience Fund, the tax administration is entering a new era of tax audits, where data is cross-checked in real time and transactions are monitored at the moment they are made.
60: St. Paul is thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 1720: Edmond Halley is appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory 1763: Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War, France agrees to surrender Canada to Great Britain 1824: Simón Bolívar is named dictator by the Congress of Peru 1906: British battleship […]
Japanese stocks surged to a record high as markets opened on Monday morning, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) basked in a historic election victory.
The Cypriot Military Delegation to the European Union organized today a workshop titled “The EU’s Role in Supporting Civilian Evacuation Efforts Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.”
It’s true: Kimolos has been generating a fair amount of buzz of late, attracting praise across international media outlets and travel sites. Last summer, Dutch travel platform griekenland.net highlighted the island’s unspoiled beauty and “wonderfully quiet beaches” as a soothing alternative to the more headline-grabbing Cycladic hotspots nearby (yes, we’re looking at you, Mykonos). The […]
1775: British Parliament declares Massachusetts Colony in rebellio 1897: Invasion of Benin City by British Expeditionary Force; the city is burned and looted, ending the Nigerian Kingdom of Benin formed in the 11th century 1904: Japanese torpedo boats launch a surprise attack on Russian ships at the Port Arthur naval base in Manchuria, beginning the […]
By Martin Banks It is a story about how two young men, back in the 1980s England, realised they had cracked a potential mine goldmine… beating the fruit machines.
