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On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their "The End of the Road" farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden.

But as dedicated fans surely know — they were never going to call it quits. Not really.

A carriage horse driver was charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty on Nov. 15 more than a year after his frail, ill horse collapsed on the streets of Manhattan, prosecutors announced.

They are demanding a ceasefire and an end to Israel's "genocidal bombing" of civilians in Gaza.
Wearing black T-shirts with the slogans "Jews demand a cease-fire" and "Not in our name", the protesters unfurled banners at the foot of the famous New York monument that read "The whole world is watching" and "Palestinians should be free", according to Voice of America.

Robert De Niro testified on Oct. 30 in New York City at a trial resulting from a former personal assistant's lawsuit accusing the actor of being an abusive boss. De Niro, who at times appeared grouchy, restrained himself from erupting at the dissection of his interactions with her before finally blurting out: "This is all nonsense!"

A staunch advocate of Greece, US Representative Grace Meng, a Democrat representing New York City and a member of the Congressional Hellenic Caucus and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, talks to Kathimerini about an amendment she recently introduced in the defense budget aimed at bolstering US-Greek defense cooperation.

NEW YORK - Those familiar with New York City know it's a place where you will occasionally be confronted with the smell of marijuana. But when some of the world's most elite tennis players caught a whiff of weed during opening day of the US Open in Queens, an investigation was launched to find the possible source.

A forest fire in Greece is the largest recorded in the European Union, said a spokesman for the European Commission, quoted by "Guardian" and "AFP".

Eleven aircraft and a helicopter from the EU fleet have been sent to help fight the fire north of the city of Alexandroupolis along with 407 firefighters, Balazs Ujvari said on Tuesday.

The Evros fire in northeastern Greece has destroyed at least 808.7 square kilometers, an area larger than New York City, which occupies 778.2 square kilometers, making it the largest blaze in the EU since 2000, according to data from Copernicus' Emergency Management Agency.

The Evros wildfire, now in its 11th day, has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service has said.

The government has declared that all areas burned in recent wildfires will be reforested and also agreed on measures to prevent erosion and flooding, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens.