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A cry for help

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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…

Better late than never…

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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…

Spain to enforce Direct Control over Catalonia

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The Spanish Government has moved to hold a cabinet meeting on Saturday, October 21 to process the enforcement of direct control over Catalonia after the region’s president refused to abandon the push for independence. The announcement from Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy…

Hurricane Ophelia in Ireland

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Hurricane Ophelia has hit Ireland. It is one of the worst storms in more than 50 years that Ireland has faced. It is the most powerful storm this far east of the US on record. Only 15 hurricanes have passed…

Nobel Prizes 2017

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Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson win the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry. They developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy, which simplifies the process for looking at the machinery of life. Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017:…

Body of missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall found

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Today Copenhagen police declared that a torso found this week in local waters was that of Kim Wall, a Swedish freelance journalist whose disappearance after boarding a Danish inventor’s submarine has shocked many Scandinavians and drawn interest from around the…