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Ukraine thriller continues – Trump: “In two weeks we’ll know if peace is possible”

The war in Ukraine, now over three and a half years ongoing, remains at a critical juncture. Former U.S. President Donald Trump continues diplomatic efforts to arrange a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an attempt…

22 August, 2025

GREECE·WORLD

Athens under snow – striking images of unusual cold front

IMAGES: Daily Digest Source: The Daily Digest Athens under a blanket of snow January 2022 has offered the world a beautiful image: the Parthenon in Athens covered in snow. Beautiful – yet extremely uncommon. The cold front that has hit Greece and…

27 January, 2022

GREECE·WORLD

Greece’s Island of Flames – Evia – Symbol of Europe’s Summer of Hell

ATHENS — While it seemed like all the fires were in Greece, 2021 has been hellish all across Europe where blazes destroyed huge swathes of forests but nowhere more so than Greece’s second-biggest island of Evia, 69 miles northeast of the capital…

13 August, 2021

GREECE·SPORTS·WORLD

Olympics, Return them to Greece

Holding the games in a different country every four years invites chaos, corruption, and redundant infrastructure. The great Australian journalist Murray Sayle famously said there were only two newspaper stories: “we name the guilty man” and “arrow points to defective part.” He…

30 July, 2021

COMMUNITY·TECHNOLOGY·WORLD

Microsoft President Warns Orwell’s ‘1984’ Reality ‘Could Come to Pass’ in 2024 Without AI Controls

Since its release in 1949, George Orwell’s famous “1984” novel has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian science fiction, even going so far as coining the terms “thought police” and “doublethink,” among others. The book focuses on the consequences…

28 May, 2021

GREECE·WORLD

Turkey, a global problem

Turkey has once again escaped the consequences of its actions, this time in Nagorno-Karabakh. It is probably today in the crosshairs of the Pentagon, which wishes to destroy it like all the other states in the wider Middle East. This is the…

13 May, 2021

WORLD

British holidaymakers ‘to be given free coronavirus tests to take abroad’

UK travellers will reportedly be issued free coronavirus tests to take abroad under plans to make foreign holidays safer. Fast-turnaround tests will be made available for free to cut the hassle and expense of getting a test in a foreign country, sources…

5 May, 2021

AUSTRALIA·WORLD

‘Signal to the world’: Singapore ready and waiting for Australian travel bubble

Singapore’s so-called “Cruises to Nowhere” have been a big hit since being given the green light last November, with more than 120,000 passengers. “They’ve made something that sounds tacky actually quite fun and enjoyable,” said Arv Sreedhar, a Singapore-based Australian investment banker…

29 April, 2021

AUSTRALIA·WORLD

Flights between India and Australia suspended until May 15

Flights to and from India into Australia have now been suspended, amid increasing concerns over the nation’s escalating COVID-19 situation. Flights to and from India into Australia have now been suspended, Scott Morrison has announced, amid increasing concerns over the nation’s escalating…

27 April, 2021

GREECE·TRAVEL·WORLD

Greek passport eighth most powerful in the world

Due to the enormous ramifications of the global pandemic on travel worldwide, the gap in citizens’ freedom to travel anywhere they wish is the largest in decades, and how the vaccine rollout goes will foretell how freely many can leave their countries…

23 April, 2021

WORLD

U.S. says Turkey violated international law, NATO commitments in Mediterranean

Turkey broke international law and its NATO commitments in the eastern Mediterranean during a dispute with Greece last year over territory, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Bilateral disputes should be settled peacefully and diplomatically, “not militarily and certainly not through…

15 March, 2021

GREECE·WORLD

The EastMed alliances threaten Turkey’s expansionist agenda

The discovery of huge gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and the standardization of cooperation between the countries of the region will change the geopolitical landscape in a few years The discovery of huge gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and the…

29 January, 2021

GREECE·WORLD

Donald Trump should lift the arms embargo on Cyprus now

Every day the arms embargo remains in place undermines U.S. national security, undercuts the deployed U.S. military, and signals to U.S. allies that Washington is unreliable. On July 20, 1974, Turkish forces—utilizing U.S.-made and supplied equipment—invaded Cyprus, ultimately ethnically-cleansing the northern third…

30 July, 2020

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Ukraine thriller continues – Trump: “In two weeks we’ll know if peace is possible”

Athens under snow – striking images of unusual cold front

Greece’s Island of Flames – Evia – Symbol of Europe’s Summer of Hell

Olympics, Return them to Greece

Microsoft President Warns Orwell’s ‘1984’ Reality ‘Could Come to Pass’ in 2024 Without AI Controls

Turkey, a global problem

British holidaymakers ‘to be given free coronavirus tests to take abroad’

‘Signal to the world’: Singapore ready and waiting for Australian travel bubble

Flights between India and Australia suspended until May 15

Greek passport eighth most powerful in the world

U.S. says Turkey violated international law, NATO commitments in Mediterranean

The EastMed alliances threaten Turkey’s expansionist agenda

Donald Trump should lift the arms embargo on Cyprus now

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