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Greek-Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has been included in Australia's Davis Cup squad for the first time since 2019, marking his return to the competition after a prolonged absence.

Unemployment in Bulgaria decreased to 3.9% in November 2024, down from 4.0% in October and significantly lower than the 4.4% recorded in November 2023, according to Eurostat data.

Sweden's official equality body has found Stockholm University guilty of rejecting a Turkish student due to a dispute between the two nations over Sweden's NATO admission process.

The incident dates back to 2022, when third-year psychology student Fatma Zehra S. was granted approval for an internship in Stockholm University under the EU's Erasmus+ program.

Greeks allocate a higher percentage of their income to housing than citizens of other European Union member states. The average across the EU is 19.7%.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday hailed the end of Russian gas transit across his country as a significant "defeat" for Moscow amid its near three-year invasion.

Flows of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine stopped on Wednesday morning after Zelensky refused to prolong decades of cooperation that had earned billions of dollars for both Moscow and Kiev.

In Milan, smoking will soon not be a habit: the Italian capital of fashion and finance has decided to ban cigarettesoutdoors from tomorrow, January 1.

According to the “air quality ordinance” adopted in 2020 by Milan, “as of January 1, 2025, the smoking ban extends to all public places, including streets.”

The government received an additional 1.8 billion euros from fighting tax evasion in 2024 and the money was spent on social policy, National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said in a TikTok post on Sunday. 

At noon on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia arrived in Oslo, Norway, to preside over the Divine Liturgy on the feast of Christmas.

Dear Members, Benefactors and Supporters of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia,

Bulgaria ranks at the bottom of the European Union when it comes to vacation habits, with a significantly lower percentage of people taking time off for holidays compared to other EU countries. In 2022, just over a quarter of Bulgarians took a vacation for personal reasons, placing them at the bottom of the list.