The House on Thursday passed an $840 billion policy bill that would increase President Joe Biden’s requested Pentagon budget by $37 billion, reflecting a growing bipartisan appetite in Congress to raise military spending amid new threats from Russia and China.
The cost of basic consumer goods continues to rise in Cyprus, pushing the price of such modest products as the greenhouse cucumber – which was the largest increase recorded – 52.2% higher between June 8 and July 13, according to the data published on Friday by the country’s Consumer Protection Agency.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras is putting pressure on banks and servicers to intensify efforts towards finding solutions for the settlement of nonperforming loans.
The European Commission has revised, in its summer forecasts, Cyprus’ real GDP growth in 2022 to 3.2%.
Jeff Koons, the most expensive artist in the world right now, was sitting in the audience at the opening of his “Lost in America” retrospective in Doha when the president of the Art for Tomorrow conference, Achilles Tsaltas, took the microphone and asked: “Will you come a find yourself in Greece?”
Just a few days after NASA released images of the distant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, Greek researcher Polychronis Patapis, a member of the team and one of the first to see them, said in comments to Kathimerini that “an exciting road has just opened up and is expected to hold many surprises.”
In response to disruptions in the supply of Russian natural gas, fears of a more permanent cut-off and rapidly rising energy costs across Europe, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired an emergency meeting at his office in Athens on Thursday.
Who doesn’t love children? In which heart, in which culture do we not find the instinct for parents to care for their offspring with tenderness, hope and self-sacrifice?
With regional wildfires still blazing, a village in northwestern Crete was evacuated on Friday afernoon as flames approached the wider area, as strong winds which continued for a second day in the region of Rethymno hampered firefighting operations.
Italy’s relapse into a crisis of governance is an indirect warning signal. It’s practical proof that fragmented parliaments and coalition government structures are themselves a source of instability.