North Korea fires more missiles into Sea of Japan amid global occupation with coronavirus
North Korea yet to officially report a case of Covid-19 but it is speculated that the virus has reached the country.
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North Korea yet to officially report a case of Covid-19 but it is speculated that the virus has reached the country.
Recognition of the killings as ‘genocide’ is the subject of a dispute between Turkey and Armenia.
Despite government opposition, the Bill has cross-party support from Labour, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil as well as independent senators.
Rarely a year went by in the late 1970s without Turkey or Greece sitting out the event.
“I always knew he was very smart,” Trump tweeted.
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Under the Obama administration the NSA has continued to grow and Libya has slipped into chaos, meanwhile relations with Russia are reaching crisis point.
The resolution will seek to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.
Emma Madigan will be in charge of Ireland’s slimmed down presence in the Holy See.
South Korea says that it will make a “resolute retaliation” to the firing of over 200 rounds into their waters.
An agreement is still to be signed but the UK has already said Russia has taken is ‘paving the way for the annexation of part of Ukraine’.
Eamon Gilmore is spending three days in France ahead of St Patrick’s Day.
The new measures will ‘noticeably affect relations between the international community and Russia’.
Labour TD Eric Byrne told Scottish counterparts that “it wasn’t Europe who sabotaged” the Irish economy.
The hunt in the fishing village of Taiji in western Japan has come under international criticism and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film “The Cove”.
Syria agreed last year to a US-Russian deal to hand over its chemical weapons.
Before and during World War II Japanese forces swept through much of east Asia, and their treatment of both civilians and prisoners of war was often appalling.
The weapons were shipped on the back of increased Al-Qaeda violence.
The US B-52s that flew through a Chinese air defence zone are believed to have been unarmed.
It was the first time in over a ten years that a British PM has called his counterpart in Tehran.
The coup toppled Iran’s prime minister after he tried to nationalise his country’s oil wealth from Britain.
The genocide expert and human rights champion sailed through on a 87-10 vote.
While a functioning nuclear weapon remains years away for North Korea, recent activities and statements will nevertheless have a worrying effect in Seoul, Washington and the wider world, writes Jason Douglas.
The Russian president said today he will sign a controversial bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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Enda Kenny is due to meet with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing during the four-day visit to promote trade and investment in Ireland.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is in Tunisia for discussions on how to help the Syrian people.
The Chinese vice president will visit Áras an Uachtaráin this morning on the final day of his three day visit to Ireland.
Iran’s government has called the US Navy’s rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held by pirates “a positive humanitarian gesture” – but some of the country’s media outlets see things differently.
Eamon Gilmore discussed a range of issues with Nickolay Mladenov, who is making his first official visit to Ireland.