Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he discussed the conflict in Libya with US President Donald Trump in a phone call and that the two leaders agreed on “some...
June 9, 2020
The Education Ministry has urged Chinese students going overseas to study to think carefully before choosing Australia, due to a spate of reported racial incidents targeting Asians. Tuesday's warning comes...
June 9, 2020
France's government has announced 15 billion euros (£13.3 billion) in aid for the virus-battered aerospace industry, including plane-maker Airbus and national airline Air France.
June 9, 2020
The government in Copenhagen plans to lift the limit on public gatherings in Denmark from 50 to 100 people in July and to 200 in August. On Monday, the government...
June 9, 2020
Software company Aveva has said it has no plans to furlough or fire staff even as it tries to slash costs by millions to deal with the effect of the...
June 9, 2020
Housebuilder Bellway has cautioned that sales activity will be “severely constrained” until lockdown restrictions are lifted further after seeing home reservations plunge nearly 70%.
June 9, 2020
A year on from the start of Hong Kong's anti-government protests, the leader of the semi-autonomous Chinese city said all sides should learn from the difficulties and challenging times of...
June 9, 2020
Cigarette giant British American Tobacco has warned that it could take two years longer than expected to reach a major milestone in the business unit which includes its vape pens.
June 9, 2020
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June 9, 2020
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is focused on ensuring his political survival and is mobilising far-right supporters to help him do so as the coronavirus claims tens of thousands of lives...
June 9, 2020
Social media is full of jokes and videos about couples in quarantine. Take the spoof chat between the two male neighbours pleading with one another to end their torment at...
June 9, 2020
The FAI are hoping that a commitment from FIFA president Gianni Infantino to help "lower tier" domestic leagues will convince all League of Ireland clubs to return to football.
June 9, 2020
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, schools across the US have cancelled their in-person commencement exercises. To celebrate the graduates whose final years of school have been upended, former first lady...
June 9, 2020
So, as we emerge, blinking and unsure, into the daylight of phase two, are we witnessing the beginning of the end?
June 9, 2020
Sweden's opposition MPs have said the country's Covid-19 herd immunity strategy has "failed miserably" and demanded the resignation of the chief epidemiologist.
June 9, 2020
It has been almost three months since Ireland entered a state of national shutdown. When I first began writing this diary, I never envisaged the catastrophic social impact of Covid-19....
June 9, 2020
Anti-racism protesters who tore down a statue honouring a slave trader in a British port city have fuelled a global debate over how to deal with monuments to historic figures...
June 9, 2020
Staring down the barrel of election defeat, US President Donald Trump's team is being forced to regroup and recalibrate with only five months to go to the polls.
June 9, 2020
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government said it's received no official word from Washington on plans to withdraw US troops from Germany, the latest sign of the deteriorating relations between the two...
June 9, 2020
The State's health watchdog warned the Department of Health that 124 nursing homes would need extra support to manage a Covid-19 outbreak, documents reveal.
June 9, 2020
Social media is full of jokes and videos about couples in quarantine. Take the spoof chat between the two male neighbours pleading with one another to end their torment at...
June 9, 2020
After three bleak months, New York, the corner of the US hit hardest by the coronavirus, gradually began reopening yesterday in what was seen as a landmark moment in the...
June 9, 2020
An 85-year-old man who defied the odds and survived Covid-19 despite battling other life-threatening issues for almost a year was given a hero's welcome when he returned to his home...
June 9, 2020
Britain's Prince Andrew has offered on "three occasions" to be a witness in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, according to a statement from Andrew's lawyers.
June 9, 2020
A senior Government minister has offered hope to the hospitality industry that the two-metre social distancing rule can be relaxed to allow the sector to recover from the massive hit...
June 9, 2020
A new test has confirmed that Covid-19 could be the trigger for a rare mysterious "inflammatory syndrome" which left three children hospitalised in Dublin.
June 9, 2020
George Perry Floyd left his hometown of Houston in Texas for Minneapolis hoping to turn his life around. He would return, he told family, when he had "made them proud".
June 9, 2020
Q. What has the country been doing under lockdown to affect water supplies?
June 8, 2020
North Korea says it will cut off all communication channels with South Korea as it escalates pressure on Seoul for failing to stop activists floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.
June 8, 2020
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he does not plan to get tested for coronavirus one day after it was announced a member of his administration he had recently...
June 8, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the coronovirus, saying the pandemic was worsening globally and has not peaked in Central...
June 8, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Cairo's diplomatic efforts towards Libya's settlement in a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday, the Kremlin press service said. The...
June 8, 2020
A farmer has helped firefighters to rescue a horse after it got stuck on a riverbank on Monday.
June 8, 2020
Tunisia on Monday ordered an end to a curfew imposed in March to help slow the spread of coronavirus. Announcing President Kais Saied's decision, his office cited success in controlling...
June 8, 2020
Schools can start sending the grades they have awarded to their Leaving Cert students to the Department of Education from today.
June 8, 2020
China has urged the United States to abide by its international obligations and abandon plans to carry out nuclear tests, foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in Beijing on Monday....
June 8, 2020
An extra £37.8 million is being made available to debt advice providers this financial year to help people in England who are struggling with their finances because of coronavirus.
June 8, 2020
Dog groomers in Northern Ireland have been inundated with bookings from owners eager to get their pets' lockdown locks trimmed.
June 8, 2020
The FTSE 100 slipped into the red after slumping in the afternoon session on the back of cooling sentiment from traders.
June 8, 2020
Co Dublin woman Breda Kenny had planned an adventurous trip to Italy with a group of friends to mark her 70th birthday, however Covid-19 restrictions forced the pensioners into 12...
