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Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Some water supplies have persistent issues with pesticide detections – Irish Water

Irish Water has confirmed a significant increase in pesticide exceedances detected in public water supplies so far this year.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Two more bodies recovered from sunken tour boat in Hungary

Divers have recovered two more bodies after a tour boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized last week following a collision with a river cruise ship, Hungarian officials said.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Body recovered from sunken tour boat in Hungary

Hungarian officials say divers have recovered a body from the sunken tour boat carrying South Korean tourists that capsized last week after a collision with a cruise ship.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Divers try to recover bodies from boat that sank in Danube

Hungarian officials say exploratory dives have begun in the Danube River in attempts to recover any bodies still in the sightseeing boat that sank last week carrying Korean tourists.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Business
Global recession within less than a year if Trump escalates trade war – Morgan Stanley

The worsening trade conflict between the world's two largest economies, the United States and China, could send the global economy into recession within three fiscal quarters, research by investment bank...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Politics
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)

WikiLeaks revealed US war crimes, government corruption, and corporate media's servile flattery to the power elite. If you're a member of our ruling class, you would view those as textbook...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Baseball game halted as swarm of bees sends players running for cover

A Major League Baseball game had to be halted when a swarm of bees invaded the field.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Saudi, UAE slam Qatar for rejecting outcome of Mecca talks on Iran

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Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
New Austrian chancellor sworn in with interim government

Brigitte Bierlein has been sworn in as Austria's new chancellor at the head of an interim government that will serve until after an election expected in September.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Russia requires Tinder to provide data on its users

Russia's communications regulator has said that Tinder is now required to provide user data to domestic intelligence agencies.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
In his own words: Donald Trump on Britain, Brexit and Boris

US President Donald Trump delivered a withering verdict on British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy, tipped Boris Johnson to be next prime minister, and criticised Meghan Markle ahead of...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
KCOM shares jump after Macquarie swoops in with £563m bid

Shares in East Yorkshire telecoms firm KCOM have surged after the firm's board threw its weight behind a new offer to buy the company.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Pilots spot five bodies in hunt for climbers missing in Himalayas

Indian air force pilots have spotted five bodies in the Himalayas while searching for eight mountain climbers who have been missing a week.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump’s insults are ‘beneath the President of the United States’

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says the 'childish insults' uttered by US President Donald Trump as he landed in the UK are "beneath the President of the United States'.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Product choice and timing are key when controlling docks

Docks must be the most despised and best known persistent weed problem on many intensive grassland farms.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Business
‘Cutting off oil supplies to China is equal to a declaration of war’ – analyst

As the US-China trade war continues to escalate, Beijing and its energy giants appear to be bracing for a worst-case scenario where the spat would drag on for years and...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Matalan sales and profit rise despite ‘tough retail climate’

Value fashion and home retailer Matalan saw sales and profit increase last year despite what its boss called a “tough” time for retailers.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
AstraZeneca reveals positive results for cancer drug

Drugs giant AstraZeneca has revealed positive results for a new cancer drug.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Chemicals giant Ineos invests 2bn dollars in Saudi Arabia

Chemicals and plastics giant Ineos is set to spend two billion US dollars (£1.6 billion) on building three manufacturing plants in the Middle East for the first time.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
UK museum in talks over Donald Trump baby blimp

A museum is in talks to acquire the Donald Trump Baby blimp.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Construction giant Kier warns on profits

Embattled construction firm Kier has issued a shock profit warning, with bosses revealing profits are expected to be £25 million lower than expected.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Global leader in dairy suffers from struggling Chinese expansion plan

Fonterra, the large New Zealand dairy co- operative, which has long been admired by the Irish dairy industry, has issued a second profit warning in three months.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Populations of iconic curlew once hundreds of thousands strong ‘to vanish within a decade’

Curlews could be erased from their heartlands across Ireland and the UK within a decade because of intensive farming, which is destroying their wetland habitats.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Brazil reports case of BSE: ministry

The Brazilian government reported on Friday a case of atypical mad cow disease in an animal in Mato Grosso state, according to a statement from the country's Agriculture Ministry.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Lump sum payments to older farmers to help encourage transfer of land – Hogan

Lump sum payments for older farmers who permanently transfer their holding to young farmers has been suggested by EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan as a measure to improve the age...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Lump sum payments to encourage transfer of land to young farmers – Hogan

Lump sum payments for older farmers who permanently transfer their holding to young farmers has been suggested by EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan as a measure to improve the age...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Deaths as Sudan troops clear protest camp in assault

Sudanese security forces have attacked a protest camp in the capital Khartoum, killing at least nine people, witnesses and protest leaders said.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Deaths reported as Sudan troops besiege protest camp in Khartoum

Deaths have been reported by protest organisers in Sudan who say security forces besieged a sit-in demonstration in the country's capital.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Missing Lewis Chessman bought for £5 could be worth £1 million

A medieval chess piece missing for almost 200 years could fetch £1 million at auction after a family discovered the object they kept in a drawer is one of the...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Whole flock recording improving ram quality

Brian and Catherine McNamara run a flock of 275 ewes in Achill, Co Mayo.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Farming
Donegal double as ‘love’ pays dividends for Pat

A Donegal breeder had a winning day out on the double at the Irish Charolais Cattle Society show and sale at Tullamore.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Business
‘Shipping freedom & opportunity abroad!’ Trump amplifies bizarre LNG sales pitch

Donald Trump has boasted about US shipments of “freedom and opportunity” abroad – now in liquid form – as Washington continues to persuade its allies half across the globe to...

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Tiananmen massacre was ‘right for stability’, China says

China's defence minister has defended 1989's bloody crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, which he claimed was justified in the name of stability.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Science ‘may find an answer to being gay’ – Widdecombe

Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe has come under fire after she suggested science might one day "produce an answer" to being gay.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Ring of steel to protect Trump for two days will cost €10m

The cost of protecting US President Donald Trump during his visit to Ireland will be €10m, the Irish Independent understands.

Posted by The Analyst | June 3, 2019 | Breaking News
Prostate cancer ‘gets bullet’ in new ‘search and destroy’ treatment

A game-changing "search and destroy" treatment could offer hope of a longer life to thousands of men with incurable prostate cancer.