THERA — Nikos Zorzos may not look it, but he’s fuming. Affable and smiley, the mayor of Santorini suddenly spreads his arms in a sign of helplessness on this Sunday in June. “I feel like a prisoner. I ...
DIE ZEIT: Frank Böttcher, Klaus Richter, the professional associations of meteorologists and physicists in Germany warn that the Earth could have warmed by 3 °C by 2050. That is only 25 years away. Do ...
MOSCOW – A recently opened exhibition in Moscow’s State Historical Museum is shedding some light on a long-guarded Russian secret: the origins of Soviet founding father Vladimir Lenin. Lenin’s ...
PARIS — For a man of my generation, construction of the European Union was above all defined by the Franco-German duo: a model of successful reconciliation that was the envy and admiration of the ...
The city of Râmnicu Vâlcea in Romania, a.k.a. "Hackerville" Facebook page RAMNICU VALCEA – To the tourist eye, Râmnicu Vâlcea is a quiet, leafy city. Located at the bottom of the Carpathian mountain ...
VATICAN CITY — As of 2024, there are precisely 764 people living in Vatican City. A small group indeed, as just a few of the employees of the Holy See have a right to live “behind the walls.” Among ...
Two men carry a painting inside the Palace of Versailles Château de Versailles/Facebook VERSAILLES — On Mondays, the Palace of Versailles is closed to the public. The usual tumult coming from the ...
One of the photographs displayed prominently in the public building in Dona Emma Agência Pública DONA EMMA — Whoever visits the entrance hall of the building of the head of education in Dona Emma, a ...
The list of participants at the swearing-in of a controversial new president is always instructive. It was no exception with Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, the man with libertarian ideas and ...
Woman carrying a castle at the 81st Nativity Scene Contest at the Main Square in Krakow, Poland Beata Zawrzel/ZUMA WARSAW — In 2020, a Polish court ruling placed a near total ban on abortions, and ...
TORNO — In January, the municipality of Torno, a town of about 1,200 inhabitants on Lake Como, in northern Italy, published on its website a note presenting a plan to build a new tourist complex. The ...
BOGOTÁ — We are living in extraordinary times, there’s no doubt about it. And a part of the exceptional nature of our times is that we are witnessing the end of democracy, or rather, its progressive ...