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"We have been engaged with financial markets since 2007 when we were first listed in New York at the Nasdaq stock exchange. Since then we have paid more than $800 million in dividends to our investors" Evangelos Marinakis, the Founder and President of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. said today, on the occasion of the listing of CPLP's bond on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX).

Turkey's Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk has written a letter on behalf of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, one of Italy's most outstanding educational institutions, making an urgent call to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi to save Venice from rising sea levels.

The issue of investments in the tourism sector was discussed, among other things, during the meeting of the Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, with the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, Sulaiman Hamed Salem Almazroui.

Protesters were defiant on the streets of Sudan on Oct. 26 demonstrating against a military coup, as international condemnation of the country's security forces ramped up with the U.N. Security Council expected to meet later.

"Returning to the past is not an option," chanted the crowds, who remained outside despite soldiers opening fire and reportedly killing at least four people.

Police have closed the street in front of the Türkevi Center in Manhattan to all traffic after a suspicious package was discovered in front of the building on Oct. 22.

Bomb disposal teams were sent to the scene along First Avenue between 45th and 46th streets. The package with red roses was found in front of the Türkevi Center building.

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The world's biggest triceratops skeleton, known as "Big John," was sold for 6.6 million euros Oct. 21 to a private collector at a Paris auction house.

An exhibition featuring a selection of photographs from the international news photography competition, the Istanbul Photo Awards 2021, kicked off in New York on Oct. 18.

An opening ceremony was held at the newly-inaugurated Türkevi Center, or Turkish House, in New York City.

The New York City Hall yesterday approved the removal of the statue of Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, placed in the boardroom more than a century ago because of the slave-owning past of politics, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.

Conservationists and the European Union say any plan must safeguard Ulcinj Salina's importance to migratory birds, but an unresolved ownership dispute is frustrating efforts to set those protections in stone.

A rare portrait of Hürrem Sultan, a chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, has been put up for sale in New York for $206,000, according to auction house Sotheby's.