Το Diamond League της γαλλικής πρωτεύουσας συγκέντρωσε τους κορυφαίους αθλητές του κόσμου και τράβηξε τα βλέμματα των φίλων του στίβου. Ο Εμμανουήλ Καραλής κατετάγη τρίτος στο άλμα επί κοντώ, με τον Μόντο Ντουπλάντις να απειλεί και πάλι το παγκόσμιο ρεκόρ, ενώ η Ελίνα Τζένγκο έμεινε στην 11η θέση του ακοντισμού. Δείτε περισσότερα στο ΕΡΤsports.gr. www.ertnews.gr

Την πρόκληση των τριών κορυφών της Βρετανίας ολοκλήρωσε η πριγκίπισσα της Ουαλίας, ανεβαίνοντας μέσα σε 24 ώρες στα υψηλότερα βουνά της Σκωτίας, της Αγγλίας και της Ουαλίας, σε μια προσπάθεια στήριξης των καρκινοπαθών και ευαισθητοποίησης για τη σημασία της ολιστικής φροντίδας. Ανταπόκριση από Λονδίνο: Αναστασία Καντζάβελου Το Παλάτι του Κένσινγκτον ανακοίνωσε ότι η Κέιτ ολοκλήρωσε την πρόκληση το βράδυ της Κυριακής, ενώ σε μια ιδιαίτερα προσωπική ανάρτηση αναφέρθηκε στη δική της εμπειρία με τον καρκίνο. Όπως έγραψε, κάθε χρόνο εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες άνθρωποι ακούν τη διάγνωση που κανείς δεν θέλει να ακούσει και έρχονται αντιμέτωποι με μια δοκιμασία που επηρεάζει κάθε πτυχή της ζωής τους – σωματικά, συναισθηματικά, ψυχολογικά αλλά και πνευματικά. Τόνισε ακόμη ότι οι συνέπειες της ασθένειας επηρεάζουν όχι μόνο τους ίδιους τους ασθενείς αλλά και τις οικογένειες, τις φιλίες, την εργασία και τις στιγμές που μένει κανείς μόνος με τις σκέψεις του. Η πριγκίπισσα σημείωσε ότι ο καρκίνος δεν επηρεάζει μόνο το σώμα, αλλά αλλάζει τον τρόπο που σκέφτεται και αισθάνεται κανείς, προσθέτοντας ότι η πορεία κατά τη διάρκεια αλλά και μετά τη θεραπεία απαιτεί περισσότερα από την ιατρική φροντίδα και μόνο. Όπως ανέφερε, στόχος της πρωτοβουλίας είναι να αναδειχθεί η σημασία της ολιστικής προσέγγισης, με θεραπείες και υπηρεσίες που λειτουργούν συμπληρωματικά προς την κλασική ιατρική αντιμετώπιση και βοηθούν τους ασθενείς να διατηρούν την ευεξία, την ψυχική ανθεκτικότητα και την ποιότητα ζωής τους κατά τη διάρκεια μιας ιδιαίτερα δύσκολης περιόδου. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people in this country hear the words no one wants to hear. What follows is a path that tests every part of who we are: physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. The challenges ripple outwards, touching families, friendships,… pic.twitter.com/aCkGZBbmWy— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) June 28, 2026 Η προσπάθεια στηρίζει το έργο του Royal Marsden Cancer Charity⁠, με στόχο τη διεύρυνση της πρόσβασης σε εξατομικευμένη και ολιστική φροντίδα για περισσότερους ασθενείς σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα. «Η θεραπεία και η ανάρρωση δεν αφορούν μόνο τη διόρθωση όσων δεν λειτουργούν σωστά, αλλά και την εύρεση ισορροπίας στη ζωή», ανέφερε η Κέιτ, προσθέτοντας ότι το θάρρος δεν είναι μόνο να συνεχίζεις να προχωράς, αλλά και να παραμένεις γειωμένος, συνδεδεμένος με τους ανθρώπους γύρω σου και παρών, ανεξάρτητα από το μονοπάτι που διανύεις. Η πριγκίπισσα ολοκλήρωσε το μήνυμά της απευθυνόμενη σε όσους δίνουν τη δική τους μάχη με τον καρκίνο: «Μαζί μπορούμε να σταθούμε δίπλα σε όλους όσοι αντιμετωπίζουν την ασθένεια, διασφαλίζοντας ότι κανείς δεν θα νιώθει αόρατος ή χωρίς υποστήριξη. Δεν είστε μόνοι». Να θυμίσουμε ότι η Κέιτ ανακοίνωσε τον Μάρτιο του 2024 ότι διαγνώστηκε με καρκίνο και υποβλήθηκε σε προληπτική χημειοθεραπεία, ενώ τον Ιανουάριο γνωστοποίησε ότι η νόσος βρίσκεται πλέον σε ύφεση. www.ertnews.gr

A three-member misdemeanor court found 57 out of 58 farmers from Crete guilty in a case concerning alleged illegal subsidy payments from OPEKEPE, based on false declarations of land in northern Greece. The case concerned farmers from Crete who, according to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, falsely declared that they owned or used thousands of […] The post OPEKEPE scandal: 57 farmers from Crete found guilty over false land declarations in N. Greece appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

The Acropolis of Athens opens again for small exclusive guided tours away from the masses of tourists who visit the “Holy Rock” during the normal visiting hours. The price of 5,000 is a bit high, however, a personalized guided tour of up to five people “under the  first light of dawn or the glow of […] The post Acropolis opens again for exclusive private tours at €5,000 appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

The current heatwave caused at least 1300 excess deaths across Europe within one week. Credit: EPA/Radek Pietruszka via AMNA 1300 excess deaths were recorded in Europe in the week starting June 21 as a result of the extreme high temperatures that hit the continent, according to data from the World Health Organisation. The current heatwave, which moved east towards the Balkans from Saturday, is expected to wear off on Monday. “Heat stress is often called the “silent killer” – and European homes, workplaces and schools were not built for these temperatures,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X.  The top level official said WHO is working with its Member States and partners to address the health threats posed by extreme heat through focusing on preparedness, prevention and stronger health system responses. “In particular, we are encouraging European countries to implement heat health action plans, as part of the broader agenda to protect health against climate change,” he noted. Fastest-warming continent on Earth Ghebreyesus observes that Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. “Right now, 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling. Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the “once-in-a-generation” heatwave is now occurring nearly annual,” he describes.  “We were warned.” The Heat-Health Action Plans Guidance published by WHO sees the interacting trends of climate change, ageing populations and urbanization creating a “perfect storm” of vulnerability to extreme heat, putting pressure on health systems and increasing costs to society. Urbanization in specific, exacerbates the impact of rising temperatures, making cities hotspots of extreme heat. Urban areas experience air temperatures that can be several degrees Celsius warmer than surrounding areas, especially during the night. Heatwave worst in urban areas across Europe The higher temperatures observed in urban environments are mainly due to the urban heat island effect, WHO explains, which results from several factors – including reduced ventilation and heat trapping due to the close proximity of tall buildings; heat generated directly from human activities; the heat-absorbing properties of asphalt, concrete and other urban building materials; and the limited amount of vegetation. In addition, as the population of the WHO European Region ages, health systems need to prepare for the growing number of heat related illnesses among older adults, the guidance warns. The number of people aged 65 years and over living in cities is expected to more than triple in the Region, reflecting the combined effects of population ageing and urbanization. When these trends are combined with intensifying heat extremes, they could increase by 10 times or more the exposure of populations at increased risk to the most dangerous heat events by 2050.

Frontispiece depicting Epictetus, a Stoic philosopher who considered the unique Greek language to be of great importance. From A selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion. Credit: impuslenine, CC BY 2.0 The unique quality of the Greek language lies in the fact that the phoneme of a word and the meaning of that word are mostly identical. The signifier and the signified are two important terms in the use of language. The signifier is the object, the word, the image or action. The signified is the concept behind the object that is being represented. The Greek language is unique in that the signifier and the signified are most often the same word. This quality appeared as early as the late 6th century BC in Greek tragedy. The word philanthropy (‘philanthropia’ in Greek), for example, is defined as love for man: “Philo ton anthropon” means “love for mankind.” Hence, the signifier (philanthropy) and the signified (love for mankind) are the same word. Alternatively, the Greek word for statue is agalma. It derives from the verb ‘agallomai,’ which means “I rejoice, I am pleased.” It describes the pleasure one gets when admiring an ancient Greek statue with the perfect lines, the beautiful physique, the expression, and the emotion it depicts. Therefore, the word agalma not only describes the physical marble creation but also the emotion it sparks in the viewer of the statue. When a Roman and a Greek see a statue (‘statuam’ in Latin), both know what it is. However, the Latin word only describes the object. The Greek word not only describes the object, however, but also the feeling that the statue may induce in the observer. In both cases, the word used (the signifier) and the description of the subject, object, concept, or idea (the signified) are one and the same. To explain the difference between languages, in English, the word “statue” describes a static sculpture but not the feelings of the person viewing the statue. From the Stoics to Ferdinand de Saussure The distinction “signified – signifier” goes back to the Stoics, who put great emphasis on language and semiotics. They studied the relationship of language—mind—world and established the distinction of the word as a sign into signifier and signified. However, this distinction between the meaning of a word (the signified) and the way of declaring the meaning (signifier) corresponds, in practice, to an old, broader, and more general distinction of language in content and form. The main Stoic sources are biographer of Greek philosophers Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD) and Greek philosopher and physician Sextus Empiricus (2nd century-early 3rd century AD). Sextus Empiricus highlighted the importance the Stoics put on the sign as an essential concept in human rationality and a threefold division consisting of the signifier, the signified, and the existent. However, the man who highlighted and established this distinction in linguistics and, consequently, in many other areas of the social sciences is Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913). The Swiss linguist, semiotician, and philosopher created a theory of the word and the sign. He is the proponent of the study of the linguistic sign and, together with the term semiology, Saussure searched into the structure of the word as a unique conventional combination of a certain signified (meaning) with a certain phthongic statement (signifier). Saussure posits that this combination is conventional, not causal. He uses the term “arbitrary,” which is not accepted today, and in relation to the very substance of the word, he shows that the signified (the meaning) is a mental entity. It is information that exists in our mind about how the meaning of a word is expressed in a certain language. Given that this relationship is conventional (established, according to Aristotle), we will not find it in other languages unless they belong to the same language family. From signifier and signified to four basic aspects According to Greek linguist Georgios Babiniotis, the signifier-signified linguistic dualism is inherent in all human language, but especially in Greek. All communication is also dualistic. It has a signifier and a signified. It has the level of the message, content, or information and the level of the form, statement, or, in other words, the expression of the content. In any case, we have the what and the how. The same happens in a text, and here we have content and form, signified and signifier. In a text, the signified is made up of a complex set of information with many functions, which lead to a correspondingly complex form of the signifier of the text. Finally, because the relationship between content and form is never 1:1, there is always the possibility of choices, which is the most creative process of language, Babiniotis argues. For Saussure, signifier and signified constitute the internal side of the linguistic sign (the word) and correspond externally—the signified to some object to which it refers (“reference object”) and the signifier to a succession of syllables that declare it sonically or to a specific representation of letters, often historically determined (“historical orthography”), in the written word. Therefore, there are four basic aspects of a word, or four pieces of information. These are the signified (meaning), the signifier (word), the object of reference (to which the signified refers), and the sound of the word (what the speaker articulates and the interlocutor hears). The terms ‘signifier’ and ‘signified’ established by Saussure resonated in the linguistic work of modern French constructivists such as Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida et al.

Professional fishermen in Crete and the South Aegean will receive 5.33 euros per kilogram of invasive silver-cheeked toadfish landed under a pilot program aimed at limiting the species' spread.

Recent inflation has taken a larger psychological toll on the continent than in the U.S.

The pilot and 10 passengers - including five first-time parachutists - died in the incident, local officials said.

An estimated 150 million people have been experiencing temperatures of over 35C across Europe.

The US president says "Numerous European countries" have been discussing bringing in such a levy.

Some analysts say the first non-stop London to Sydney flight is a major milestone - but would you buy a ticket?

The Democratic Republic of Congo takes Rwanda to the International Court of Justice.

Israeli forces bulldozed olive trees in the village of Zububa, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

A skydiving plane crashed in eastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board. The crash in the town of Tomblaine killed five instructors, five students and the pilot, according to local officials. The cause of the incident was not immediately clear, and a technical investigation has been opened, according to a French deputy public prosecutor. 

Debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at a major oil refinery in Russia on Sunday, according to local authorities. This comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country was “going through a difficult period”. In recent months, Ukraine has stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military facilities, choking Moscow's fuel supplies and military deliveries.