WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Turkey in 2019, a White House spokesman said on Monday (Dec 24). “While nothing definite is being planned, the President is open to a potential meeting in the future,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement. The conflict […]
A new algorithm allowed organisers’ Facebook posts to generate lots of attention while traditional media was ignored. France will have 89,000 police officers on duty across the country on Saturday as part of exceptional security measures ahead of more anti-government protests that have swelled in size, spurred by the attention organisers got on social media. […]
Rescue organisation SOS Mediterranee and MSF say they will end operation after relentless pressure from EU states. Rescue and relief organisations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have announced they are ending the Aquarius refugee rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea after what they call “a relentless ongoing political, judicial and administrative campaign backed by several […]
Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s highest and most active volcano, erupted on Monday, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the closure of Catania airport on Sicily’s eastern coast. A chain of around 130 earth tremors have rocked the volcano since around 0800 GMT on Monday, Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and […]
CCTV footage shows the Staffordshire bull terrier being taken out of a car and dumped with his bed on a pavement, only to desperately run after the man who left him there. The dog can be seen wagging his tail and jumping at the car as his former owners try to drive away. He then […]
Accounts filed over the weekend show that former England captain David and ex-Spice Girl Victoria, along with former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, took £29.9m out of Beckham Brand Holdings. The total comprises an £18.8m dividend paid out in 2017 and another £11.1m after the year end. Beckham Brand Holdings looks after Victoria’s fashion sales […]
Gardaí are appealing for help in tracing a missing man in Co Roscommon. Gardaí are hoping to trace Tomas Martinkus (29) who is missing from his home in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon. He was last seen on December 19, 2018 at approximately 5am. His family and friends are concerned for his safety. Tomas is described as […]
Gardai are preparing a file for the DPP in the hope of bringing charges against a gangland criminal over an arson attack on a KBC Bank. A 26-year-old man, who has previously been quizzed over crimes linked to the Hutch/Kinahan feud, was arrested over last week’s malicious fire at the Dublin city centre branch. A […]
‘I met your missus at Kylie.” It would be difficult to imagine any Taoiseach other than Leo Varadkar addressing you with such words – delivered from behind his desk in his office in Merrion Sreet. His detractors will use this as a stick to beat him. This is of little consequence to him. He can […]
KAUNIAINEN, Finland — Jan Mattlin was having what counts as a bad day in Kauniainen. He had driven to the town’s train station and found nowhere to park. Mildly piqued, he called the local newspaper to suggest a small article about the lack of parking spots. To Mr. Mattlin’s surprise, the editor put the story […]