Venezuela

Venezuela's best-known jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez celebrated a surprise return to his family after being granted house arrest on Saturday with a promise to fight on following three years' imprisonment for leading anti-government protests.  

Tension rose another notch in Venezuela on July 6, where the country's attorney general sharply defied President Nicolas Maduro one day after a mob stormed the National Assembly and attacked opposition legislators.

Turkey is heading for yet another deep crisis. Fears for the Turkish economy in international decision-making centers are running very high and it's only considered a matter of time now before the bubble bursts.

A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on June 27, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by "terrorists" seeking a coup.

TRACK & FIELD: Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi cleared a world-leading 4.85 meters at the women's pole vault event of the Rome Diamond League meeting on Thursday. She went on to try her luck at 5.07 m. for a new world record, but she could not make it.

The World Economic Forum recently released its Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report, which analyses the state of the travel and tourism sectors in 136 countries.

The Canadian Embassy in Athens on Wednesday expressed its support for this year's Athens Pride, which is scheduled to take place in Syntagma Square on Saturday.

Towering cranes dot the Havana skyline as communist-run Cuba races to build luxury hotels, amid indignation among some residents and concern that U.S. President Donald Trump might reverse a detente that fueled the tourist boom.

On Friday, The Washington Post published an op-ed by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in which she condemned the way in which the Human Rights Council (HRC) operates.

Haley wrote that Venezuela and Cuba having seats on the Human Rights Council is an affront to the international body, as both nations are rampant abusers of human rights:

The Festival of Spanish Language Films returns to Athens on June 8-16 this year, bringing 15 first releases to the Greek Film Archive's open-air Lais cinema.