There has been much confusion among sheep farmers in relation to the new EID tagging system since it came into force on June 1.
Farmers have backed a call from the head of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) Isolde Goggin that independent retail regulator to give effect to tougher EU legislation to protect farmers.
A former nurse on trial over allegations that he killed 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany has apologised to his victims' relatives in a final statement to the court.
One-hundred people have been killed in a two-day crackdown on Sudanese protesters carried out by security forces, a doctors' committee close to the demonstrators said yesterday.
A former US marine held in Russia on suspicion of spying is being illegally isolated in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre and prevented from communicating with visitors, Russian rights activists and US diplomats said.
A lawsuit by a Nevada woman accusing soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her in 2009 at a Las Vegas Strip resort has been moved from state to federal court in Las Vegas, her lawyer said yesterday.
Mexican officials sought to persuade the White House yesterday that their government has done enough to stem immigration and avoid looming tariffs.
