Nearly 3,000 Range Rovers recalled in Australia over dangerous airbag defect
Canberra, July 23, 2025 — Almost 3,000 Range Rover Evoque vehicles are being urgently recalled across Australia amid safety concerns that the front passenger airbag may tear during deployment, potentially exposing occupants to hot gases
Killer flu season sees record numbers of cases and deaths – and it’s only just beginning
A killer flu season has seen almost as many people diagnosed with the virus so far this year as there were in the whole of 2018. Health bosses today issued renewed calls for people to
Election campaign: Morrison, Shorten pledge transport funds
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is promising to spend $4 billion on Melbourne’s shelved East West Link road project, even though the state Labor Government has ruled out its construction. • A Coalition government would fund a
Man charged after ‘Mother of Satan’ found in Adelaide home
A court has heard a highly volatile substance known as “Mother of Satan” was found at a home in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, where a man was arrested for allegedly manufacturing explosives. Officers made the discovery
Coles customers call for compensation after major website outage
Coles has suffered a major outage of its online shopping website, prompting customers to publicly vent their frustration. The supermarket giant has named a software issue for the site being offline. It has left customers
Australian freighter lost in World War II found off coast of Victoria
The final resting place of an Australian freighter torpedoed by a Japanese submarine more than seven decades ago has been discovered off the coast of Victoria. The SS Iron Crown was sunk on 4 June
Several hundreds attend Archbishop Stylianos’ funeral in Sydney
On Saturday the 30th of March, ordinary citizens, clerics, politicians and public figures from the wider Greek community in Australia attended the last farewell to the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia Stylianos, during the funeral
Shockwaves in PASOK: Cretan party official resigns amid OPEKEPE subsidy scandal
A political storm has erupted within PASOK following the resignation of Lampros Antonopoulos, Secretary of the Heraklion Prefectural Committee, after his alleged involvement in the controversial OPEKEPE agricultural subsidy case. Antonopoulos submitted a formal resignation letter to PASOK’s General Secretary, Andreas Spyropoulos, not only stepping down from his role but
Lies and responsibilities
From the first hours of last summer’s disastrous wilfire in Mati the weaknesses of crumbling state services, a lack of coordination, and the absence of even rudimentary emergency plans were glaring. One witnessed in amazement
Revolution! Modern art exhibition at the archaeological site of Delos
An unprecedented exhibition by British sculptor Antony Gormley at the archaeological site of Delos. 29 iron “bodyforms” have been scattered among the ancient columns and stones of what it once was the holy sanctuary for
Crafting a regional policy to contain Erdoğan
Turkey poses a long-term threat to the security of the Middle East. Containing Neo-Ottomanism requires a defensive policy that integrates Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and theKurds into a regional alliance. A new era has dawned in
Micro-brewery sector in Greece surging on back of global beer trend
A burgeoning presence but limited profits are, in general terms, the main characteristics of the micro-brewing sector in Greece so far, although forecasts continue to be very bright – as Greek consumers are following a
Five suitors in next phase of IGB pipeline tender
Five consortia have been approved for the next phase of an international tender to build the Greece – Bulgaria (IGB) gas inter-connector pipeline between the Greek and Bulgarian natural gas grids, a project worth 145
Paralysis
With less than one month to go before the European Parliament election, the difficult situation in which Prime Minister Alexis finds himself is constantly worsening. With the cards stacked against them, none of the initiatives
Iran and European powers to resume nuclear talks amid rising tensions
Iran has agreed to resume nuclear negotiations with the European trio – Germany, France, and the United Kingdom – in a diplomatic effort to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The new round of talks is scheduled to take place in Istanbul on Friday, July 25, according
The U.S. Should Recognize the Greek Genocide
I am a descendant of survivors of the Greek genocide. My great-grandmother and her parents, like their parents and grandparents before them, were Ottoman Greeks born in what is known today as the Republic of
The Istanbul Pogrom of 6–7 September 1955 in the Light of International Law
The Istanbul pogrom (sometimes referred to as Septemvriana) was a government-instigated series of riots against the Greek minority of Istanbul in September 1955. It can be characterized as a ‘‘crime against humanity,’’ comparable in scope
Armenians are facing genocide by Starvation
The thousand-year-old genocide of Armenians at the hands of Turkic peoples has reached a new level. Watchdog organizations — including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Genocide Watch, and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
Turkey threatens to kill UN troops in Cyprus, lays claim to entire Mediterranean
Mesut Hakkı Caşın, the Turkish president’s advisor on security and foreign policy, indirectly hinted at the possibility of harm to UN troops in Cyprus should they infringe upon what he termed the sovereignty of breakaway
Post 9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths
The full death toll of violence in the post-9/11 U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone of the broader global war on terrorism, remains difficult to determine. But it has long been surpassed by
Ask Your Heart, a film about a Muslim girl who falls in love with a crypto-Christian in Turkey
The Turkish film Yuregine Sor (Ask Your Heart) is a true story about a woman of Muslim faith (Esma) who falls in love with a crypto-Christian (Mustafa). Prior to 1856, Christians in the Ottoman Empire
