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A woman photographs a mural of Savita Halappanavar in Dublin. Picture by Niall Carson/PA THE Republic’s historic abortion referendum looks to have delivered a landslide win for those advocating liberalisation, after two major exit polls recorded huge victory margins. One poll by RTÉ suggested almost 70% of the electorate have voted to end the constitution’s […]

FILE PHOTO: A site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash © Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters Moscow has rejected any involvement in the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine after the Netherlands and Australia declared Russia “responsible” for the deployment of a BUK missile system that downed the jet in 2014. Moscow neither accepts […]

  Russian S-500 missile being prepared for testing. (Screen capture: YouTube) Russia has successfully conducted the world’s longest surface-to-air missile test, according to a report in US media on Thursday. The S-500 missile, which Russia said will be able to down F-35 fighter jets — the most advanced in America’s (and Israel’s) fleets, as well as […]

GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) – Fighting between Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region and breakaway Somaliland has killed dozens of soldiers, according to a witness and a military commander who spoke of a “hellish” outbreak of violence. The clashes on Thursday morning appeared to be a resumption of more than 10 years of periodic conflict between Puntland and […]

  Police stand outside the Bombay Bhel restaurant in Mississauga, Ont. on Friday May 25, 2018. Fifteen people were injured Thursday night when an explosion police say was caused by an “improvised explosive device” ripped through a restaurant in Mississauga, Ontario.  (DOUG IVES / THE CANADIAN PRESS Police stand outside the Bombay Bhel restaurant in Mississauga, Ont. on […]

Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix Fewer births and more deaths have resulted in the lowest birth rate in 33 years being registered in Norway for the first three months of 2018. But the population of the country is growing overall as a result of immigration, news agency NTB reports. Net migration to Norway during […]

Summit could be rearranged Despite U.S. President Donald Trump cancelling the June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the regime’s denuclearization, it appears a meeting could take place not too far in the future, as both sides seem willing to engage in dialogue. North Korea, unlike its usual hard-line stance, expressed […]

A man walks past a TV broadcasti Vladimir Putin expressed regret that Donald Trump cancelled his summit with Kim Jong-un despite Pyongyang doing everything it was asked for and expressing hope that the US-North Korea nuclear talks will take place eventually. “Here, in Russia, we took this news with regret because we very much anticipating […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Beijing, capital of China, May 24, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)  May 24 (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping Thursday told visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel that China will work with Germany to push bilateral ties to a higher level. Xi welcomed Merkel on her 11th visit […]

© AFP Archives | Donald Trump, Kim Jong-Un U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called off a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site. Referring to a scheduled June 12 meeting with Kim in Singapore, Trump said in a […]