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…
Around 3,000 firefighters are battling more than 60 wildfires raging across Portugal. The fires have broken out amid temperatures of up to 39 degrees Celsius in parts of the country. Firefighters, supported by soldiers and other officials, have been deployed in areas…
A French farmer who helped dozens of migrants to enter France illegally has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence after prosecutors argued that an earlier suspended fine was too lenient. Cédric Herrou was sentenced by an appeal court in…
Austria has barred Turkish economy minister Nihat Zeybekci from entering the country to attend an event marking the anniversary of last year’s failed coup in Turkey, a spokesman for Austria’s foreign ministry said on Monday. “He has been barred because…
On Sunday, an Irish naval ship rescued 712 people including pregnant women and infants off the coast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli as part of an international migrant rescue effort, Ireland’s Defence Forces said on Monday. During the day…
Controversial dog meat festival begins in China The controversial Chinese dog meat festival has started in the Yulin city of China, despite earlier reports of it been cancelled or toned down this year. There were reports of dead dogs hanging…
As per the findings of a new research by UNICEF, Ireland has the fourth highest teen suicide rate in the EU/OECD region. The organisation’s latest Report – “Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries”, that…
According to the findings based on the evidence of the performance of nine-year-old students from Growing Up in Ireland survey, migrant students in Ireland fall behind in English reading as compared to Irish peers and this gap is largest for…
In order to prevent any possibility of a terrorist attack ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan passed a controversial anti-terror law on Thursday that sparked street protests and warnings from critics that it would stomp on citizens’…