A businessman who hired a car from rental company Green Motion has hit out at how it retained his deposit, as photographs appear to show no damage was done to the vehicle. Stuart Summerfield, from Co Sligo, photographed the car as it was inspected by a Green Motion staff member at Luton Airport in May. […]
GENEVA — Independent experts investigating allegations of sexual abuse at the United Nations agency fighting AIDS have called for the appointment of new leadership, saying in a damning report that its executive director tolerated harassment and bullying in a toxic organizational culture. The agency, U.N.AIDS, was “in a state of crisis that threatens its vital […]
Aidan Knight, 29, served in Iraq with the elite 2 Para but left after five years, telling his mother he had seen “too much death”. He also struggled to cope with the loss of his brother, George, in 2012. Lawyers representing his family said the father-of-three killed himself after trying to get help from mental […]
Prisoners to be released for a few days this Christmas will be freed mainly from the State’s two open prisons. Any prisoner serving a life sentence will have already served most of their sentence before being transferred to join other inmates in an open prison. “The vast majority of prisoners who would get Christmas temporary […]
LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to delay Tuesday’s (Dec 11) key parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal and head to Brussels next week to demand better terms from the European Union, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. The newspaper cited “ministers and aides” who said they expected her to announce on […]
Aer Lingus has apologised to staff following claims they stole millions of euro worth of goods from the airline, customers and colleagues. The airline has agreed to make a donation of €25,000 to charity on behalf of staff after a meeting with its group of unions. Chief executive Stephen Kavanagh and his senior executive team […]
VETSCHAU, GERMANY (AFP) – Dismayed by the German government’s failure to meet climate protection targets, dairy farmer Heiner Luetke Schwienhorst has filed a lawsuit against Berlin to force it into action. “Some describe this as a fight between David and Goliath. To me, that’s besides the point,” said Mr Schwienhorst, who suffered his poorest harvest […]
Prominent Russian human rights campaigner and ex-Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva has died aged 91. She passed away in a Moscow hospital at 16:30 GMT on Saturday, Russia’s human rights council said. “This is a huge loss for the entire human rights movement in Russia,” the council’s head Mikhail Fedotov said. Ms Alexeyeva became a fierce […]
A landlocked country with Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, and Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia boasts a history longer than most European countries. After independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia quickly became drawn into a bloody conflict with Azerbaijan over the mainly Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region. One of the earliest Christian […]
Germany’s ruling Christian Democrat Union has chosen Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as its new party leader, ending Angela Merkel’s 18-year reign. The CDU general secretary narrowly beat Friedrich Merz, a millionaire lawyer, in a run-off vote in Hamburg. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer, or AKK as she is also known, received 517 of 999 votes. Ms Merkel, who plans to […]