Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been permitted to leave prison to undergo surgery on Christmas Day following approval from Brazil’s Supreme Court, court documents show. Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup after he lost the last election in 2022. Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday granted permission for Bolsonaro to […]
Brussels has put forward numerous veto-proof legislative proposals to overcome repeated opposition from Hungary and Slovakia. Experts say the strategy is politically and legally risky. But has it become inevitable?
The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey’s capital Ankara, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally recognized government said, adding that four others were on the jet as well.
1565: Compromise of the Nobles in Habsburg Netherlands closes against the Inquisition 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States, the United Kingdom and their allies 1851: Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington and destroys 35,000 volumes 1936: First radioactive isotope medicine is administered in Berkeley, California […]
By Vassilios Nicolaos Vitsilogiannis In the Peloponnese, where sparks carve fleeting arcs of light inside the silence of a workshop, one creator is redefining what contemporary sculpture can be. Spyros Lemonias, Mechanical Engineer and founder of Crazy Metal Sculptures, takes a material known for its hardness and rigidity and reshapes it into art infused with […]
Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region’s maritime infrastructure. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out “systematic” attacks on the region. Last week, he warned that the focus of the war “may have shifted towards Odesa”. President Volodymyr […]
On Monday, December 22, the Great Hall of Saint Andrew’s Theological College in Sydney was filled with festive music as members of the Greek Orthodox Christian Society of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia paid their customary Christmas and New Year visit.
Alternate Finance Minister Nikos Papathanasis, responsible for the Recovery and Resilience Facility, submitted two requests to the European Commission on Monday for the disbursement of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), totaling €1.17 billion.
962: Under future Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo and recover the tattered tunic of John the Baptist during the Arab–Byzantine wars 1688: King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, flees to France from William of Orange 1783: US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief […]
A pair of US lawmakers have threatened legal action against US Attorney General Pam Bondi, after her deadline to release all government files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was met only in part. The release of the Department of Justice (DoJ) documents was highly anticipated but in the end, only a […]
