News archive of July 2024

Thousands of Venezuelans gathered Tuesday in a peaceful show of opposition support a day after 11 people died and dozens were injured in protests against President Nicolas Maduro's disputed presidential election victory.

A collection of 2,764 gold, silver and copper coins minted by 14 sultans and some kings who ruled the Anatolian Seljuk State between 1116 and 1308 are on display in the central Anatolian province of Konya.

The coins bear witness to political and socio-economic history.

The seventh stop of the Turkish Cultural Road Festival, organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry in 16 cities this year to contribute to the country's international brand value, will be the central Anatolian province of Nevşehir.

Through a basement door in southeastern Türkiye lies a sprawling underground city — perhaps the country's largest — which one historian believes dates back to the ninth century B.C.

Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance" after an excavation of house cellars in Midyat, near the Syrian border, led to the discovery of a vast labyrinth of caves in 2020.

A barren landscape near the village of Petries on the island of Evia on Tuesday. At least 1,000 hectares were burnt in southern Evia by the devastating fire that started on Monday and was brought under control on Tuesday, after an extensive and exhausting effort involving numerous ground and air forces. The Fire Service said it was one of the most challenging and dangerous fires this summer.

The key elements of the new cadastre bill were presented by Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou and Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis during the cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

The main goals are to complete the cadastre by 2025, incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal review of contracts and streamline real estate transfer procedures.

The subsidy provided to household electricity bills is expected to range between €10-15 per megawatt-hour in August, the Ministry of Environment and Energy estimates.

The decision on Tuesday by the Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court to shelve the complaints about the wiretapping case related to the National Intelligence Service (EYP), or any other state agency for that matter, caused a storm of reactions and acrimony between the government and opposition parties, who denounced it as a cover-up.

The share of the elderly population surpassed 10 percent for the first time in the country's history in 2023, with projections indicating it could reach 31.7 percent by 2075, according to data released by the country's statistical institution on July 30.

Rescue operations following landslides in Mylambadi, Wayanad district, Kerala, southern India, 30 July 2024.

Relentless downpours and howling winds hampered Wednesday's search for survivors of landslides that struck Indian tea plantations and killed 122 people, most believed to be labourers and their families.