PARIS (BLOOMBERG) – France’s Emmanuel Macron has cast blame on US President Donald Trump’s policies for hurting allies in Europe, speaking on his arrival in Argentina for a meeting of global leaders. “Truth said, some of Trump’s recent decisions have been done to the detriment of its allies,” Mr Macron told La Nacion, a newspaper […]

Analysis by the charity Leonard Cheshire found that 40% of the country’s 2,560 stations could not be used by some disabled passengers. It said that a lack of clear information about accessibility made it difficult to plan journeys and that there were issues arranging ramps to get people between a platform and a train. The […]

MADRID (REUTERS) – China will widen market access for foreign investors and step up protection of intellectual property rights, China’s President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday (Nov 28) ahead of the G-20 meeting of world leaders in Argentina. Speaking before the Spanish Upper House of Parliament during a two-day stop in Madrid, Mr Xi also […]

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged Nato to send ships to the Sea of Azov following a naval confrontation with Russia off Crimea. He told Germany’s Bild newspaper he hoped the ships could be relocated “to assist Ukraine and provide security”. On Sunday, Russia opened fire on three Ukrainian ships and seized their crews in […]

Stanley Davis died of a skull fracture and brain haemorrhage when he was just 24 days old in March 2017. His mother, Roxanne Davis, 30, and her former boyfriend Samuel Davies, 24, both from Gosport in Hampshire, were found guilty by a jury of causing or allowing the baby’s death. As well as the skull […]

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Arijan Kurbasic, the manager of the War Hostel Sarajevo in the Bosnian capital, knows that his idea of hospitality is not to everyone’s taste and is ready to relax the house rules a bit. He will, for example, turn down the volume on a sound system that, day and night, […]

A Dublin man who touched a fellow bus passenger’s shoulder with his penis claimed he had been urinating when the vehicle jerked forward and pushed him towards the woman. Thomas McMahon (35) of Aideen Avenue, Terenure, was due to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he pleaded guilty to exposure on June 28, […]

A 59-year-old woman died of asphyxia after her nightdress became entangled on a bed post in her bedroom. The mother-of-two had recently bought a new bed with decorative glass bedposts, an inquest into her death heard. Deirdre Fox (59) from Sandyford, Dublin 18 died at her home on April 13 2017. She had type two […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Leicester City’s football ground to pay tribute to the victims of the helicopter crash that killed the club’s owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The royal couple knew the Thai businessman, who died with four other people in the tragedy outside the King Power Stadium last month. William and Kate […]

LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – The UK will suffer a major economic hit if Parliament rejects Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal and the country crashes out of the European Union with no new trade arrangements in place, according to official analysis. A government report on Wednesday (Nov 28) said gross domestic product (GDP) will be as […]