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North Macedonia’s government has announced a project with renewables investor Alcazar Energy Partners for the construction of the landlocked country’s biggest wind farm

Amazon's Metis aims to revolutionize user interaction through advanced AI capabilities. Named after the Greek goddess of wisdom, the chatbot is slated to debut at Amazon's annual Devices and Services event in September 2024.The report suggests that sources familiar with the project divulged that Metis will harness Amazon's proprietary AI model, Olympus, which promises enhanced functionality beyond current industry standards.

₹700-800. The price of one litre of extra virgin olive oil from Spain is now ₹1,300-1,800. I make pure olive oil soaps around this time each year, so they cure for five-six months and are ready by peak winter in December.

LISBON—The Americans are here, and this sun-bleached coastal city is booming. At bars, hotels and restaurants that line winding cobblestone streets, business is so good that Mayor Carlos Moedas recently slashed local income tax for residents. With economic growth of 8.2% last year and a 20% rise in tax revenue from prepandemic times, he’s also made public transportation free for young people and the elderly.

₹65 to ₹68 per equity share, having a face value of ₹10.The firm manufactures solid surface materials, which are distributed throughout India via a large distribution network of distributors and direct clients, as well as exported to countries such as Dubai, Bahrain, Greece, and Nepal. The firm operates under two names, LUXOR and ASPIRON, which provide a wide variety of solid surfaces.

Industrial real-estate companies have been showing more interest lately in the roofs of their structures, where warehouse operators are looking to cut energy costs, reduce emissions and even make money from the sprawling and mostly unused space by installing solar panels. Matt Schlindwein is taking his time adopting the technology, however. The managing partner of East Brunswick, N.J.-based industrial real-estate firm Greek Real Estate Partners said a fraction of the more than 300 warehouses he manages in the Northeast have solar panels on their roofs.

Greece is grappling with the repercussions of an unprecedented early heatwave that has claimed the lives of several tourists and left many missing amid record-breaking temperatures. The heatwave, defined by temperatures exceeding 38°C for at least three days, has prompted urgent warnings to travelers. The heatwave has hit Greece earlier than ever before, with tourist hotspots in Athens and beyond forced to close. The Acropolis, Greece's most visited tourist attraction, shut its doors on Wednesday and Thursday as temperatures soared, causing visitors to faint while waiting in line. Greek authorities issued a level three heat alert, urging people to work from home and avoid strenuous outdoor activities. Chania, a city on the northwest coast of Crete, recorded the highest temperature, reaching 44.5°C on Thursday. The area also experienced a 3.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning. Central Athens saw temperatures climb to 42°C, prompting health warnings and school closures.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is tweaking his Cabinet with a focus on cost-of-living and labor policies after his center-right party’s victory in last week’s European parliamentary elections

Meta Platforms will not launch its artificial intelligence assistant Meta AI in Europe for now following a request from the Irish privacy regulator on user data harnessed from Facebook and Instagram, the U.S. social media company said on Friday. The move by Meta came after complaints and a call by advocacy group NOYB to data protection authorities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain to act against the company.

Greek authorities have closed down the Acropolis for much of the afternoon for a second day as the country swelters under unseasonably high temperatures

manuscript, over 1,600 years old, has been identified as the earliest known account of Jesus Christ’s childhood. The document had been stored in a library in Hamburg, Germany, for decades and was long believed to be insignificant. However, as per the reports of 'New York Post', two experts have now decoded the text and revealed that it is the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas.

Inspired by an 18th century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new “The Hunger Games” novel

Craft beer pioneer Anchor Brewing Co. has been purchased by Chobani yogurt founder and billionaire Hamdi Ulukaya

The top European Union cybersecurity official says that disruptive digital attacks have doubled in the 27-member bloc in recent months and election-related services are also being targeted

A missile attack has damaged a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen

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.» «He was a fascinating man who lived a lot of life around the world,» she wrote.

Indian cinema has emerged a winner at the 77th Cannes Film Festival! Two Indian films — Chidananda S Naik’s ‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know’ and Mansi Maheshwari’s animated movie ‘Bunnyhood’ bagged first and third prizes in the La Cinef category. ‘Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know’ is the maiden directorial venture of Naik. Naik is a doctor-turned-director and an alumnus of the Film & Television Institute Of India. The heart wrenching movie is based on a local folklore of Karnataka which narrates a tale of an aging woman who steals a rooster. Mansi Maheshwari's animation film ‘Bunnyhood’ clinched the third prize in the La Cinef competition. Hailing from Meerut and an alumna of NIFT Delhi, Maheshwari crafted the film during her tenure at the UK's National Film and Television School.

Generations—The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069. Social analyst and demographer Mark McCrindle came up with the term Generation Alpha, after the first letter in the Greek alphabet, to indicate they were all born in the 21st century, from 2010 to 2024.) There has been a shift from “collectivism to individualism as society is going through major changes," said Kavil Ramachandran, senior advisor at the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise in the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. “As an economy develops, business is no longer about survival and children have been insulated from their parents’ struggles.

₹8,200) It is important to know that the Schengen area covers 29 countries, including 25 European countries. The countries that are part of the Schengen area are Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Luxembourg, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and Liechtenstein.

European Commission is set to increase Schengen visa fees from June 11, 2024. Slovenia’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs confirmed that while visa fees for adults will increase from €80 to €90 for adult applicants beginning, visas for children aged six to twelve will also increase, from €40 to €45. Furthermore, countries not cooperating with the readmission of their irregularly staying citizens in the EU may face visa fees rising to €135 or €180. «The European Commission adopted a decision to increase short stay Schengen visa (visa type C) fees worldwide by 12 per cent. The increase will apply worldwide as of 11 June 2024,» the Slovenian government said in a statement. The fee increase follows a review of EU visa fees in December 2023, which occurs every three years as mandated by the Schengen Visa Code. The EU cites inflation and civil servants' salaries as reasons for the hike. The last increase was in February 2020 when fees rose from €60 to €80.

politician has thrown up yet another bogeyman: the 'desi Angrez'. Like the ABCD — American-Born Confused Desi — and other archetypal stereotypes (or are they 'stereotypical archetypes'?), the desi Angrez is a figure of both derision and envy, the former emotion covering the latter.