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Athinon Avenue was unable to find a clear direction on Monday, and the week's first session ended with the benchmark virtually unchanged. Shrinking turnover revealed that most traders are holding their fire to see the results of the US presidential election and the two-day meeting of the Fed, both of them this week.

Sellers returned with a vengeance on Wednesday at the Greek stock market, following Tuesday's recovery of prices. Stocks took a tumbling, led by banks, in line with most other eurozone bourses that also suffer sudden losses on the day.

Former US President Donald Trump has urged voters to turn out in record numbers for the upcoming presidential election, emphasizing the need for a strong mandate from the American people, as reported by The Hill.

The pagers used in the coordinated explosions in Lebanon yesterday were manufactured by a Hungarian company, according to a statement from the Taiwanese firm Gold Apollo. Gold Apollo revealed that it has a "long-term partnership" with the Budapest-based company BAC Consulting, which produced the specific model involved in the attacks.

Ukraine successfully tested its first domestically produced ballistic missile, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on August 27. Speaking at the Ukraine 2024 Independence forum in Kyiv, Zelensky expressed cautious optimism, noting that it might be too soon to elaborate further but wanted to share the achievement with the public.

Seen in the company of the well-known expatriate, Evangelos Bousis, his husband, famous fashion designer Peter Dundas, and their two young children, was SYRIZA PS president, Stefanos Kasselakis, along with his husband, Tyler, during the Bousis and Dundas vacation in Greece.

A major wildfire is raging out of control in northern California, which in three days has become one of the largest ever recorded in this western US state, authorities said yesterday, Saturday.

NATO’s 75th Anniversary Summit

NATO will celebrate its 75th anniversary this week with a summit in Washington at a critical geopolitical moment. The ongoing war in Ukraine is not progressing as planned, the Middle East is in turmoil, and the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House seems increasingly plausible following Biden’s poor performance in the CNN debate.

Public interest witness and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now a “free man” after a court on Saipan Island today upheld his plea deal with the US justice system, ending a 14-year legal odyssey.

“You can walk out of this courtroom a free man,” Judge Ramona Manglona said after a brief session of the U.S. federal court on Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Schuyler Jones, a globe-trotting American anthropologist and adventurer whose exploits drew comparisons to iconic movie character Indiana Jones, has died. He was 94.

Jones' stepdaughter, Cassandra Da'Luz Vieira-Manion, posted on her Facebook page that Jones died on May 17. She said she had been taking care of him for the last six years and "truly thought he might live forever."