As foreign governments airlifted hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens to safety, Sudanese on Monday desperately sought ways to escape the chaos, fearing that the country’s two rival generals will escalate their all-out battle for power once evacuations are completed.
A 28-year-old football player from Agrinio in Central Greece, who was arrested seven months ago and accused of repeated indecent assaults of a 4-year-old boy, was unanimously sentenced to seven years in prison without suspension on Monday by a court in the city of Ioannina.
The widely anticipated upgrading of Greece’s outlook to “Positive” by Standard & Poor’s on Friday was taken in the traders’ stride in Monday’s bourse session, with many of them engaging in some profit taking that focused on banks and construction companies.
US foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw.
A Greek C-27 military transport aircraft took off from Aswan airport in Egypt on Monday evening to pick up a group of Greeks from Djibouti, following their extraction from Sudan, government sources said.
The Athens Concert Hall has invited one of the world’s most respected organists to perform a special concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of the installation of the instrument.
Chevron is preparing to issue a tender to lease a drilling ship to explore for natural gas off Cyprus, Egypt and Israel, it said on Monday.
The three major parties competing in the May 21 general election have experience in both the responsibility that comes from being in government and in the looser discourse exhibited when in opposition.
American business magnate Warren Buffett predicts new bankruptcies of American banks.
In the 2015 movie “The Big Short,” a disenchanted Wall Street banker portrayed by Steve Carell discovers that the until then roaring US housing market rests on flimsy foundations, years of precarious loan-giving, creating a bubble.