# tensions - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
The Minister for Justice also spoke about why he is backing a law which could see mobile phone networks shut down during the G8 summit.
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# tensions - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
A spokesperson for Bus Éireann said the company’s future is at risk if it can’t bring in major changes to pay and conditions for employees.
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# tensions - Sunday 5 May, 2013
It is Israel’s second strike on Syria in three days.
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# tensions - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
“Despite the fact that RTE is a minority player in terms of audience they hold a virtual stranglehold on public funding from the licence fee”.
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# tensions - Saturday 27 April, 2013
North Korea says the man has admitted the charges and will soon face ‘judgment’.
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# tensions - Monday 15 April, 2013
There is speculation that North Korea will try a missile test today to coincide with birthday celebrations for former leader Kim Il-Sung.
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# tensions - Friday 12 April, 2013
High-ranking officials have played down the report, however, saying there is no US consensus on North Korea’s abilities.
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# tensions - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
Tensions are growing ahead of a key anniversary in North Korea this week.
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# tensions - Friday 5 April, 2013
European countries have been told to consider withdrawing personnel from Pyongyang if the tension there escalates further.
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“The North is apparently intent on firing missiles without prior warning,” a South Korean official said.
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# tensions - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Researchers in London found that between 2,000 and 5,500 people from other countries have joined the rebel forces to fight against the Assad regime.
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# tensions - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
South Korea says it is looking at all options, including military action, to protect its citizens.
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# tensions - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
North Korea is restarting a nuclear reactor, while saying it now considers itself in a ‘state of war’. How do you feel?
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Religious tensions are running high in the country, despite police assurances that the blaze was accidental.
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North Korea shut down the reactor in July 2007 until an aid-for-disarmament deal – but now there are concerns that it will be used to produce weapons-grade uranium.
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# tensions - Monday 18 March, 2013
One officer was injured when the gang blocked a road and threw projectiles at police officers during a disturbance in Belfast.
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# tensions - Saturday 16 March, 2013
Bobby Fitzgerald said the policy being pursued by the national party is leading to “untold hardship”.
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# tensions - Saturday 9 February, 2013
It began with a vote and ended with burnt-out offices, dozens of injuries and arrests, and a sense that a fragile peace had been disrupted.
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# tensions - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Senior officers met with the Ulster People’s Forum over the protests which have been ongoing for almost two months.
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# tensions - Monday 21 January, 2013
The eleven have all been arrested on charges of obstructing roads as part of an ongoing protest over the flying of the Union flag.
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# tensions - Sunday 13 January, 2013
Dozens of protesters were evicted from the first-of-its-kind protest camp in an area slated for Jewish settlement.
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# tensions - Friday 4 January, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Fatah attended the mass rally – the first since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.
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# tensions - Friday 21 December, 2012
The man entered North Korea as a tourist and committed an unspecified crime, according to North Korean authorities.
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# tensions - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
An 11-year-old, a 12-year-old and two 13-year-olds were among those arrest after disorder broke out at loyalist protests last night.
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# tensions - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
America, China and Russia have all expressed concern about the successful launch of the rocket by North Korea – and asked all sides to avoid ‘stoking the flames’.
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# tensions - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
A gang of 15 men attacked an unmarked police car opposite the offices of an Alliance Party MP last night, as violence worsens in Belfast.
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# tensions - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Five demonstrators died overnight as supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi fought outside the presidential palace.
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# tensions - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
The unmanned drone is reported to have been captured after it entered Iranian airspace, the Revolutionary Guards have said. t
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# tensions - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this morning that Israel is “extracting a heavy price from Hamas and the terror organisations”.
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# tensions - Saturday 17 November, 2012
The former Pakistan president said the two nuclear-armed countries need to settle their differences in order to ease tensions in the region.
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# tensions - Monday 15 October, 2012
One Labour TD described the eight Fine Gael TDs as “belligerent”
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# tensions - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Turkey says that the plane’s cargo “did not comply with rules of civil aviation” as tensions between the two countries escalate.
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# tensions - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
The secretive state’s latest public comment came in response to the announcement of a new deal between South Korea and the US to triple the range of its missiles.
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# tensions - Monday 10 September, 2012
OH, IT’S ON (well, kind of. It’s all very civil).
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# tensions - Saturday 4 August, 2012
The 48 Iranians were abducted by armed terrorists who boarded their bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
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# tensions - Friday 13 July, 2012
At least 10 shots were fired at police in Ardoyne last night.
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# tensions - Thursday 12 July, 2012
Police used water cannons to push back nationalist protesters, while petrol bombs were thrown at riot police.
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# tensions - Sunday 24 June, 2012
“It is yet another reflection of the Syrian authorities’ callous disregard for international norms, human life, and peace and security,” Clinton said.
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# tensions - Tuesday 22 May, 2012
Ryanair has already said it plans to appeal the ruling at the Supreme Court.
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# tensions - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
It is the first time in 14 years that a foreign journalist has been kicked out of China.
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