A powerful explosion at Motor Oil Refinery on Friday morning injured two workers very seriously and another three lighter. The explosion occurred in the premises of the refinery in Agioi Theodoroi in western Attica. According to reports, two men aged 43 and 50, were initially transported to the Corinth General Hospital where they were intubated […]

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Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz asked Fox News’ Mark Levin to weigh in on an Israeli news report that Netanyahu planned to use Levin to influence Trump on the Iran deal

Durante siglos, la historia de las matemáticas griegas ha estado dominada por figuras como Euclides, Arquímedes o Apolonio de Perga. Sin embargo, junto a esa tradición teórica y deductiva, existió otra mucho más terrenal y pragmática que rara vez aparece en los manuales: la matemática práctica. Un nuevo estudio de Thomas Kelly, investigador de la […]

TOTE Services has finalized its contract with the U.S. Maritime Administration to oversee construction of a new generation of missile-tracking ships, clearing the way for Hanwha Philly Shipyard to begin...

Italia e Francia devono finanziare difesa e investimenti. Ma hanno un enorme debito pubblico. Una proposta del 2014, aggiornata, consente di ridurne lo stock senza trasferimenti tra paesi e senza perdite per i creditori. E può convenire anche ai “frugali”.

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Cuando hablamos de colonización griega solemos pensar en Atenas, en Corinto o en las ciudades de Eubea, que salpicaron de colonias el Mediterráneo y el mar Negro. Esparta, en cambio, apenas miró al exterior. Fundó una sola colonia, a unos 700 kilómetros en línea recta de casa, al otro lado del mar Jónico, y lo […]

Hace unos veintidós siglos, el sitio donde hoy se excava en el Valle de los Templos era el lugar donde los ciudadanos libres de Akragas, el nombre griego de Agrigento, se reunían para decidir los asuntos de su ciudad. Ese edificio, un graderío semicircular que los arqueólogos llaman ekklesiasterion (de ekklesía, «asamblea» en griego), es […]

El Faro de Alejandría lleva más de siete siglos derrumbado. Una serie de terremotos, entre ellos los de 1303 y 1323, acabaron con la torre que durante unos dieciséis siglos había guiado a los barcos hacia la ciudad. Pero su silueta acaba de reaparecer en el fondo del mar, reducida al tamaño de un anillo. […]

The withdrawal of the remaining US troops from Iraq is a victory for the Iraqi nation and the resistance force in the region, Iran claimed on Thursday, October 1, also calling for greater cooperation between both the countries to achieve complete sovereignty for Iraq.

“The US, despite possessing vast resources and equipment, has been expelled from Iraq, and the Iraqi people are celebrating this victory,” head of Iran’s Quds’ forces Esmail Qaani said during a program held in Tehran to mark the second anniversary of the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah.

He thanked the “resistance of the Iraqi nation and the heroes of the Resistance Front” for making the end of the US occupation a reality.

The US withdrew all its remaining forces from Iraq on September 30, as per the 2024 understanding between both the countries marking the conclusion of over a decade-long military presence in the country.

The news of the withdrawal led to widespread celebrations in Baghdad and other parts of the country on Wednesday.

The US occupied Iraq during the 2003 war which lasted until 2011 when it publicly stated that it withdrew all its forces. They were then re-deployed in 2014 as part of the international coalition fighting against the Islamic State or ISIS.

Iraqi people, as well as the resistance groups in the country, have been demanding the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country for years now. Their presence is seen as undermining the country’s sovereignty.

Due to popular resistance, most of the foreign troops left the country by 2019 after a victory was declared over ISIS. Remaining US troops were redeployed to some bases in Baghdad and Erbil.

In 2020, the Iraqi parliament adopted a resolution demanding the withdrawal of all remaining foreign troops from the country following popular protests over the US assassination of Qassem Solemani during a visit to Baghdad. Soleimani was the head of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) and key military strategist.

Also an Iranian victory

Qaani claimed that the US withdrawal from Iraq is also a victory for Iran which has been in support of the call on the ground that the presence of foreign troops in the region undermines regional security and stability.

Qaani also linked the withdrawal to the setbacks the US faced in its war with Iran in the last seven months. Contrary to its expressed wish to force Iranians to surrender within days of the war launched on February 28, “they encountered a reality vastly different from their calculations,” he said.

The US had used its military presence and the bases in Iraq to launch attacks across the border in Iran in the past and also during the ongoing war. This has prompted Iranian retaliations causing destruction and death of some of its servicemen.

Iran has also accused that the US military’s presence in Iraq has been used by Israel for its clandestine operations inside the country.

Reacting to US withdrawal from Iraq, IRGC said on Thursday that it is the beginning of its withdrawal from the entire region.

Qaani expressed hope that in the aftermath of US troop withdrawal there will be increased coordination between the governments in Iraq and Iran for purging the remaining US influences on the country and creating a secure and sovereign Iraq.

Though the US has withdrawn militarily, the legacy of its occupation still remains in Iraq. It continues to control Iraq’s economy by controlling the payments to its oil exports which are routed through the American Central Bank.

Oil revenues made up 90% of the Iraqi government’s total budget and over 40% of its national GDP.

Qaani accused that banning the Iranian airlines to Iraq and other countries in the region is a distraction used by the US to undermine the significance of its military defeat.

Iraq and several other countries in the region complied with the US sanctions on Iranian airlines last month following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threats of secondary sanctions.

Dass die NATO Russland bei Kaliningrad immer heftiger provoziert, wird von westlichen Medien zwar verschwiegen, ist aber nicht zu bestreiten. NATO-Staaten führen bei Kaliningrad fast ununterbrochen Manöver durch, in denen sie die, Blockade, Bombardierung und Eroberung der russischen Exklave üben. Russland hat daher letzte Woche eine deutliche Warnung an die NATO ausgesprochen, über die ich […]

Hace unos cinco mil años, cuando la escritura daba sus primeros pasos y Egipto acababa de unificarse bajo un solo rey, los primeros faraones eligieron un rincón del desierto de Abidos, en el Alto Egipto, para su descanso eterno. El lugar se conoce como Umm el-Qaab, que en árabe viene a ser «la madre de […]

Un buey, un carnero y un cerdo, rodeados de guirnaldas, festones y cráneos de buey esculpidos, comparten una misma piedra que acabó sirviendo de pavimento en uno de los cruces principales de la antigua Aquinum. Es una de las dos piezas que los arqueólogos de la Universidad del Salento han sacado a la luz en […]

En agosto del año 117, un barco con el emperador de Roma a bordo tuvo que acercarse a la costa de Cilicia porque el pasajero estaba demasiado enfermo para seguir. Se llamaba Trajano, llevaba diecinueve años gobernando el mayor imperio de su tiempo y había nacido en Itálica, junto a la actual Sevilla. Lo desembarcaron […]

A pocos centímetros del suelo del bosque, en las estribaciones orientales del Taunus, queda una parte de la frontera romana que apenas se había mirado. El fuerte de la Kapersburg, cerca de Rosbach vor der Höhe (Hesse, Alemania), es uno de los mejor conservados del limes germano, pero la investigación se había centrado en la […]

Since Sunday, September 27, residents of Garvaghy Road in Portadown have prevented the Orange Order’s Drumcree march from passing through their community. Linking arms, locals and supporters warned that the parade could undo years of progress against sectarian violence in the north of Ireland.

More than 4,000 people signed petitions opposing the march, yet authorities formally allowed it to move ahead. First, the Parades Commission approved a limited procession. Then, the Court of Appeal lifted an injunction imposed by the High Court, paving the way for the march attempt on Sunday.

Read more: On anniversary of Easter Rising, calls for Irish unity are strengthened

Negotiations to end the stand-off continued Thursday evening. According to local media, an earlier proposal suggested residents would accept the Orange Order’s legal right to walk down the road in return for the Order choosing not to march. The organization rejected the deal, insisting on passing through the neighborhood.

Stand-offs at Drumcree previously used to launch loyalist attacks

Recent events carry particular weight because of Drumcree’s history. During the Troubles, loyalist stand-offs in the area became a notable flash point of violence, with effects rippling out beyond Portadown. Following the Good Friday Agreement, the march had been rerouted for almost 30 years.

“The Orange Order organized stand-offs at Drumcree (particularly in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998) were regularly used by unionist death squads as a rallying cry and pretext to launch attacks, block roads, and intimidate Catholic families,” Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition spokesperson Breandán Mac Cionnaith wrote in August. “At least ten murders were carried out in Portadown and other areas during this period by those same death squads.”

Speaking to the People Before Profit party, Mac Cionnaith emphasized that the march had been rerouted because of the devastation it unleashed. “I always make a point that people need to remember that between 1996 and 1999, 21 people lost their lives across the north because of killings and murders carried out by loyalists acting in support of Drumcree,” he said. “Several of those victims were our neighbors, they were our friends, they lived in this community.”

Read more: Ireland, Scotland, and Wales independence parties pledge cooperation toward self-determination

Past decades gave the Garvaghy Road community a chance to rebuild, yet the memory of the violence was passed on through generations. “My family moved to England to escape the viciously sectarian climate around the marches,” one resident said. “My aunt went to school with Robert Hamill, a young man kicked to death by loyalists in the midst of the marches.”

“For 28 years, the Garvaghy Road community has lived in peace,” wrote Chris Hazzard of Sinn Féin. “That peace didn’t need a solution – it needed protection. Forcing an unwanted, sectarian march through this area defies all logic.”

“Why did the Orange Order want to march down a Catholic community?”, asked Sinn Féin’s Vice President and First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill. “It’s about supremacy, it’s about domination, it’s about ‘we’re in charge,’ and this community deserve better than that.”

“There is no going back, we’re not going back to the days of the past. What I want is to build upon the progress that’s been made over the last 28 years. What I want to do is actually ensure that we continue to let this community to flourish. Right now, what this community is being told by the Orange Order and political unionism is that they’re second class citizens and that their rights can be railroaded over.”

Solidarity messages from as far as Palestine

Progressive organizations, parties, musicians and artists across Ireland have voiced support for Garvaghy Road, many joining protesters in Portadown to warn against the standoff’s possible ripple effects. “The Garvaghy Road community is still living with the legacy of traumatic street conflict and state violence stretching back decades,” the Irish Republican Socialist Party wrote. “This latest attempt by the Orange order is merely a continuation of that conflict.”

Messages of solidarity arrived from as far as Palestine, where a Gazan teenager wrote in support of Garvaghy Road residents. “I know what it feels like when basic peace and dignity are stripped away, and how painful it is to fight for safety in your own home,” she emphasized. “The residents of Garvaghy Road deserve to live in peace without fear or intimidation, just as every family in Gaza does.”

Cuando se abre una zanja para un canal de 106 kilómetros, lo normal es encontrarse con restos sueltos, un tramo de camino o una granja aislada. En Sermaize, un pueblo de la región francesa de Hauts-de-France, los arqueólogos del Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Preventivas (Inrap) se han topado con algo bastante menos habitual, un […]

A heavy rainstorm has been sweeping across the island of Crete on Thursday with tons of water flooding homes, businesses and agricultural land, damaging roads and bridges, causing the life of one person and putting at risk the lives of thousands. Most affected are the regions of Heraklion, Lasithi and Rethymnon. Thye bad weather is […]

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Entre todos los animales que aparecen en las tumbas y en el arte del Antiguo Egipto, muy pocos llevan nombre propio, y casi todos los que lo llevan son perros. También hubo caballos con nombre, aunque se conservan muchos menos. De los gatos, tan ligados hoy a la imagen de Egipto, la bibliografía solo maneja […]

Russland hat die NATO davor gewarnt, die Lage um die russische Exklave Kaliningrad weiter zu eskalieren. Für diese Warnung gibt es handfeste Gründe, das Publikum der deutschen Mainstream-Medien jedoch nicht kennt. Entsprechend leicht war es für den Spiegel, die russische Warnung in ein vollkommen falsches Licht zu stellen. Schauen wir uns daher zunächst den Grund […]

Un detector de metales ha sacado a la luz una pequeña estatuilla de plomo de Venus Púdica en un bosque de los montes de Buda, al noroeste de Budapest. Es la primera pieza de carácter religioso que se documenta en la aldea romana de Pilisszentiván–Hárs erdő, un asentamiento rural de la provincia de Panonia que […]