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#QATAR Belgium has arrested four people including a former MEP as part of a probe into suspected corruption by “a Gulf country” at the EU parliament, the prosecutor’s office said.
#LONDON A man has denied fatally stabbing an Irish pensioner in London earlier this year. Lee Byer, 44, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran in Greenford, west London, on 16 August.
#MOSCOW One person has died in a massive blaze the size of a football pitch which broke out overnight in a sprawling shopping and entertainment centre in a northern Moscow suburb.
Today, a monument was unveiled in Athlone barracks dedicated to the families of Jadotville soldiers.
Irish soldiers from the ‘A’ Company of the 35th Infantry Battalion were on a peacekeeping mission manning a UN post in the town of Jadotville in the Congo in September 1961.
They were surrounded by a group of Katangese Gendarmarie and captured four days later, after suffering continuous attack.
The ceremony was attended by Defence Minister Simon Coveney, with surviving members of the A Company, their families and deceased members being remembered at the event.
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