Ella-Mobbs Cup replaces the Cook Cup named after British explorer James Cook. New trophy honours Indigenous Australian great Mark Ella and World War I hero Edgar Mobbs. Trophy to be unveiled in Perth on July 1 ahead of first Australia-England Test. Australia and England said Friday they will fight for a new rugby trophy that … Read more
The UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum, Queer Britain, opened its doors in London this week, aiming to showcase the community’s history and culture to a wider audience. The museum has been four years in the making and is entirely funded by private donations. It is housed in a 19th-century building in a rebuilt area behind King’s … Read more
US President Joe Biden used Sunday’s occasion of Armenian remembrance day to describe beyond mass atrocities by using Ottomans as genocide, repeating his controversial description from a yr ago when he ended decades of American equivocation. The categorization infuriates Turkey, which refuses to realize the 1915-16 killings of greater than one million Armenians as genocide. … Read more
The ‘1915 Canakkale Bridge’ in Turkey has now become the world’s longest suspension bridge, spanning two kilometers. It runs from Gelibolu on the European side of Turkey’s northwestern province of Canakkale to Lapseki on the Asian side of the Dardanelles Strait. The bridge allows passengers to cross the Dardanelles, which connects the Aegean Sea and … Read more
ANTALYA, Turkey: Turkey and Armenia have pledged to pursue the normalisation of ties in what the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu described as a “productive and constructive” meeting on Saturday. After talks with his Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan, Cavusoglu said that Azerbaijan also “supports the process” of normalisation. Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic relations, … Read more
On Wednesday, several people got injured after an explosive device hit at a cemetery in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during a ceremony commemorating the end of World War I. A statement has been issued by France’s Foreign Ministry in which it was stated that diplomats from Europe, along with the representatives of several countries, were present … Read more
