UK’s Afghanistan evacuation into ‘final hours’ – with no more people to be called forward
The UK’s evacuation mission at Kabul’s airport has “a matter of hours” left and no more people will be called forward, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.
-
UK NEWS
August 27, 2021 -
GREEKS ABROAD 
August 27, 2021 2021 New York Euripides Summer Festival Continues Tradition Digitally for 2nd Year
NEW YORK – As theater aims for a comeback after the pandemic, the New York Euripides Summer Festival was compelled to present its 2021 lineup of Phoenician Maidens and Iphigenia at Aulis remotely, using Zoom, for the second consecutive summer season, due to the strict regulations applicable for indoor rehearsing and performing.
-
CYPRUS
August 27, 2021 Anastasiades is consolidating the deadlock on the Cyprus problem
Instead of focusing on the effort to resume the negotiations, the President of the Republic is engaged in a game of issuing statements and creating impressions with the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. By doing so, the only thing N.Anastasiades achieves is consolidating the deadlock on the Cyprus problem, which facilitates Turkey’s partitionist policy. The […]
-
EUROPE
August 27, 2021 EU Parliament enters the fray in workers’ push for co-determination
The European Parliament is seeking to put a stop to a perceived decline in workers’ participation in corporate decision-making – an issue that affects 190 million employees across Europe – and bring the European Commission to heel.
-
HISTORY
August 27, 2021 27 August 2021: This day in history
479 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece 479 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Mycale won by Greek forces over Persian naval troops on Ionian coast, double victory with that at Plataea ends Persian […]
-
HEALTH
August 26, 2021 NHS bracing for perfect storm winter disaster amid ‘mass exodus’ of burnt-out staff
The NHS faces “disaster” this winter amid fears of a “mass exodus” of staff facing burnout from the Covid frontline.
-
SPORTS
August 26, 2021 Tokyo Paralympics: Aileen McGlynn wins cycling silver for Team GB
Aileen McGlynn claimed Great Britain’s opening medal on day two of the Tokyo Games, while fellow cyclist Jaco Van Gass set up an all-British final with Finn Graham by blitzing the 3000m individual pursuit world record.
-
GREEKS ABROAD
August 26, 2021 Planned cut to universal credit could push more than 2m people into debt
The government’s planned £20-a-week cut to universal credit cut could drive 2.3 million people into debt including almost half of claimants in “red wall” battleground constituencies, the charity Citizens Advice has said.
-
POLITICS
August 26, 2021 Christmas is cancelled – and the Brexiteers will tell us it’s a jolly good thing too
Is it just me or does Christmas get cancelled earlier every year? There really should be a law. No cancelling Christmas until at least the end of the British summer, which really should be starting any day now.
-
UK NEWS
August 26, 2021 Police ‘confident’ they have found suspect in double murder investigation
Police say they have found a man wanted in connection with two murders in Westminster on a canal barge in west London with serious injuries.
