News archive of July 2024

The head of the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital said on Monday he had been "tortured" by Israel after being freed from more than seven months of detention.

Al-Shifa hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya was among more than 50 Palestinians released and returned to Gaza for treatment, according to an Israeli minister and a medical source in the besieged territory.

The U.S. military has raised the alert level of several bases in Europe to its second-highest level, multiple American media outlets have reported.

The American bases, located across Europe, were raised to the "Charlie" alert level, ABC News and CNN reported, both citing unnamed officials.

A pilot abandoned a Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighter jet as it was taxiing at the runway of the 114 Combat Wing in Tanagra on Monday afternoon, the Air Force said in a press release.

The incident was recorded shortly after the jet landed, as part of a training flight. 

The Air Force did not mention why the pilot had to abandon the fighter jet. 

Joe Biden's performance in the televised duel with Donald Trump was a disaster - for the president, for the United States, for the world. Whoever watched even some snippets, with the 81-year-old Biden mumbling, losing his train of thought, overwhelmed by Trump's lies and bombast, understands that his re-election in November is most unlikely.

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said a Serbia-China FTA had entered into force on July 1 and that this was big and important news for the Serbian economy.

A beauty with a hypnotic voice to warm up the world star Lenny Kravitz in Burgas on August 6
Newcomer Devon Ross comes as a special guest at the concert

PASOK lawmakers Milena Apostolaki and Michalis Katrinis on Monday added their names to the other three politicians who announced they would run for party leader in the election scheduled for October 6 this year. 

A statement purportedly endorsing support for a GERB-led cabinet, attributed to Ivelin Mihailov on his social media profile, has been denied by the prominent figure and founder of the "Greatness" party.

Prominent leftist European Parliament lawmaker Dimitris Papadimoulis announced on Monday he was retiring from politics, after serving twenty years in Brussels. 

"I will continue, far from elected office, to serve the same values ​​as an active citizen," he said in a brief statement posted on his official account on X. 

Greek factory activity expanded steadily in June although growth in output and new orders slowed amid ongoing supply chain delays, a survey showed on Monday.

S&P Global's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing, which accounts for about 10% of Greece's economy, slipped to 54.0 in June from 54.9 in May.