A female member of the Isil jihadist group let a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun, according to German prosecutors. While living in then Isil-occupied Mosul, Iraq, the 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W and her husband had allegedly bought the child as a household “slave” in 2015. “After the […]
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports rose by 22 percent in 2018, Ireland’s foreign office said on Monday, more than doubling the total of annual applications since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Almost 100,000 eligible Britons sought to hang onto their EU citizenship via a passport from […]
Gardaí at Dundrum have arrested three man and recovered a sum of cash following a robbery at a shop in Stillorgan. At around 6.15pm yesterday gardaí responded to reports of a robbery in progress at a grocery store in Stillorgan. The alarm was raised when two men entered the store and threated staff with a […]
LONDON — The British Foreign Office is used to tackling matters of import on a global scale. This year, for example, it was involved when Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats as retaliation after a former Russian spy was poisoned with a nerve agent on British soil. It helped shepherd President Trump’s contentious visit to Britain […]
Ross Jones Barker was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on Saturday, which happened on the A6089 between Carfraemill and Gordon at about 10.50am. Mr Barker, 59, of Port Seton in East Lothian, was travelling on the private vehicle from Newtongrange to Kelso with 22 other passengers and the driver – all of […]
TEMPERATURES almost double the average for this time of year will continue across the country into early this week – but a colder spell is expected early in the New Year. A white Christmas was never on the cards this year as Ireland enperienced extremely mild conditions with temperatures reaching the teens, double the 5C […]
MOSCOW (REUTERS) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a New Year letter to his US counterpart Donald Trump, said on Sunday (Dec 30) that Moscow was ready for dialogue on a “wide-ranging agenda”, the Kremlin said. At the end of November, Trump abruptly cancelled a planned meeting with Putin on the sidelines of a G20 […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Trade minister Liam Fox said there is a “50-50” chance that Brexit may be stopped if parliament rejects the government’s divorce deal with the European Union next month. “If we were not to vote for that, I’m not sure I would give it (Brexit) much more than 50-50,” Fox, a leading supporter […]
However, Chris Hogben, the head of an NCA-led organised immigration crime task force, said more crossing attempts are likely. Mr Hogben said French colleagues had “disrupted numerous attempts, recovering at least 95 migrants including nine children, and arrested seven people caught attempting to facilitate these crossings”. “Dozens of attempted crossings have already been prevented,” he […]
THE HAGUE (REUTERS) – Dutch police on horseback broke up a protest on Saturday (Dec 29) by “yellow vest” demonstrators who threw rocks and fireworks at them, a statement said. The police statement said the mounted officers “carried out several charges” to end the demonstration in The Hague, which had not been approved by authorities […]