News archive of May 2024

The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady for a sixth straight meeting Wednesday, with a summer start to cuts looking less likely owing to stubborn inflation.

The center of Athens will be mostly closed to traffic on Wednesday (May 1) due to announced rallies related to Labor Day.

Restrictions will be implemented gradually as o 9.30 a.m. in the streets around Propylea on Panepistimiou Street, Omonia Square, Syntagma Square, and roads leading to and from Panepistimiou and Stadiou Streets.

A mammoth €2.1 billion programme is being implemented by the Civil Protection for the first time in Greece for the operational equipment and supply of airborne and ground-based means of response to natural disasters

The use of drones is not unique to Greece as it’s employed in other European networks facing similar challenges, resulting in reductions in theft

"Suyun Üstü" (Afloat), the first feature film written and directed by Aslıhan Ünaldı, won the Best Film and Best Director awards at the 2024 New York CineFest, the independent cinema festival held between April 25-28.

The awards were presented to Ünaldı at a ceremony held at LOOK Dine-In Cinemas W57th in New York on April 28.

The Amisos Mosaic, spanning 56 square meters and thought to originate from the third century A.D., is exhibited within a designated section at the Samsun Museum, along with its motifs of Achilles and Thetis.

And what can happen to your body if you stay awake way past your bedtime?

Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.

Police climbed into Hamilton Hall via a second floor window they reached from a laddered truck, before leading handcuffed students out of the building into police vans.

The commission on plants suitable for culinary use, under the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, has greenlit the incorporation of four previously untapped plants into Turkish cuisine.

The newly endorsed additions include Japanese pepper, lychee, holy basil and buckwheat sprouts.

As sea turtle spawning season has commenced along the beaches of Alanya district in the southern province of Antalya, the urgency to safeguard these delicate creatures at the brink of extinction has come to the fore.