Babylon current affairs articles.
We mixed you up a short glossary of terms relevant to the UK-Ireland-Brexit problem. Enjoy! The Irish terms: The Troubles – a violent thirty-year conflict regarding the status of Northern Ireland. The conflict officially started with a civil rights march…
Russia and the US K.O.ed each other during the UN Security Council meeting. This Thursday, Russia and the US ambassadors exchanged blows during the United Nations Security Council session this Thursday. The rematch is planned for today. In a span…
The recently published Daft.ie and the Economic and Social Research Institute reports have no good news for the housing situation in Ireland. According to research by the ESRI, house prices could rise by 20 per cent over the next three…
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays… Today, Irish musician and anti-poverty activist Bob Geldof returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award. This is his way of protesting against Aung San Suu Kyi’s actions, or, to…
The humanitarian situation in Yemen worsens with every passing day. “Everywhere I went, I saw roads, bridges, factories, hotels, and houses that had been destroyed by bombing or shelling. In Hudaydah, I met seven-year-old Nora. She weighs 11 kg…
The housing crisis in Ireland is in bloom, and the “anything goes” attitude of landlords is really not helping the situation. According to Threshold National Housing Charity, an Irish agency that advises people on their housing rights, each year more…
Today, Nazarin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has put a formal request to meet Boris Johnson, after the foreign secretary made some contradictory remarks about the purpose of her visit to Iran in 2016. Last April, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was charged with espionage and attempts…
Do you consider yourself a slow reader? Feeling embarrassed when you receive an overdue notice from your favourite local library? Not to worry, it can always be worse. According to Jason McElligott, the Marsh’s Library keeper in Dublin, only nine…
Photo: Andrew Kelly/REUTERS A man drove a rented pickup truck onto a busy bike path in Manhattan on Tuesday (October 31st), killing eight people and injuring 11. According to officials six of them died at the local and two others…