The European Union is mulling imposing an embargo on Russian oil and coal — but not gas — as part of its next round of sanctions but the impact on Moscow may be limited.
EU foreign ministers are gathering in Brussels on Monday to discuss new (...)
British shipping company P&O Ferries has sacked 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect, but some crew are defying orders and refusing to leave their ships in protest.
Workers are understood to have been told the news on Zoom. The ferry firm said (...)
Launching Bord Bia's (the Irish Food Board) new three-year business strategy for the Middle East market which aims to significantly increase the export of Irish food products, Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie (...)
The UN Security Council will on Monday meet for the first time to discuss Russia's build-up of troops near Ukraine's border.
The meeting, called at the US' request, comes amid warnings that Moscow is planning to invade the former Soviet (...)
Yohannes and Gebremeskel knew it would be freezing cold inside the bulk cargo area of the Airbus A350 plane on the long flight from Ethiopia's capital to Belgium.
But the two ground technicians with Ethiopian Airlines, both of Tigrayan origin, said (...)
Scientists have uncovered evidence for a large-scale, prehistoric migration into Britain that may be linked to the spread of Celtic languages, BBC reported.
The mass-movement of people originated in continental Europe and occurred between 1,400 BC (...)
New measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19, especially the new Omicron variant, came into force in Ireland on Tuesday.
There are also new limits on the number of people allowed to attend indoor events. Mask-wearing is now mandatory while (...)
Cardiff's hopes of flying out of South Africa on Sunday are over after two positive Covid-19 cases were confirmed in their squad, BBC reported.
The club confirmed one of the cases is suspected to be the Omicron variant that sparked travel (...)
The UK's trade deal with the EU could collapse in a row over Northern Ireland, BBC reported quoting a senior Irish minister.
The UK is thought to be preparing to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney (...)
JUBAIL — The Jubail Industrial City has won the UNESCO International Prize for the Best Learning City in the world. The award was announced on Wednesday, the first day of the International Conference on Learning Cities in the South Korean city of (...)
The European Commission will announce a "bespoke" arrangement for Northern Ireland on Wednesday, senior EU sources have told Euronews, in a bid to end the deadlock that has been going on for almost a year.
For several months, many in the Unionist (...)
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined WhatsApp €225 million for breaking EU rules on user privacy. The authority said that WhatsApp Ireland had failed to provide the necessary data protection information to users.
It's the largest (...)
The Irish government has endorsed a plan to lift the majority of the current COVID-19 restrictions countrywide from Oct. 22, according to a government statement released on Tuesday.
Under the plan, requirement for physical distancing, mask wearing (...)
A total of 130 countries representing more than 90% of global GDP are this week celebrating a landmark technical agreement to overhaul the global tax system and increase their revenues to finance the costly post-coronavirus recovery.
Canada calls (...)
After a long-awaited report laid bare the harm done by Ireland's homes for unmarried women and their babies, Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin is set to issue an apology to survivors.
The 3,000-page report found that 9,000 children (...)
More ferries are to sail directly from Ireland to the European mainland in a move to circumvent the traditional trade route over mainland England and Wales.
The British exit from the EU means that trucks passing through Irish ports will now have to (...)
Composed of two club-ready edits of popular music from the MENA region, the duo are building even more steam from their release of the Egyptian classic "Sahrany" (Tjade Edit) (Dar Disku 003) and Sidi Mansour (Moving Still Edit) (DD002).
Played out (...)
Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has successfully priced a US$1 billion Perpetual Non-Call 5.5 years Additional Tier 1 Sukuk with a profit rate of 4.625 percent per annum.
This transaction carries the lowest ever yield achieved by any bank globally on an (...)
US President Donald Trump's former acting chief of staff has said that he expects the president to run for election again in 2024 if he is not victorious this year.
"I would absolutely put him on the shortlist of people likely to run in 2024. He (...)
Commercial Bank of Dubai, CBD, has announced the issuance of a US$600 million Additional Tier 1 (AT1) perpetual non-call 6-year bond, at a coupon of 6 percent, the lowest coupon from a Dubai bank issuer to date on a Basel III-compliant AT1 bond.
The (...)
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has urged Britain and the European Union to make faster progress in their talks on a
future trade deal, dpa reported.
"There needs to be movement in terms of getting into end-stage negotiations and we feel there's (...)
Ireland has tightened its coronavirus restrictions after a surge in cases — but has for the first time gone against advice from it experts to go into another lockdown.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said on Monday that he would be upping the country's (...)
Ireland is seeing a "significant escalation" in COVID-19 infections, the acting chief medical officer said on Saturday after reporting the highest daily death toll since May and the third-highest number of daily cases recorded to date, according to (...)
All members of the Irish Cabinet entered self-isolation on Tuesday after the health minister displayed symptoms of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Micheal Martin said.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is now being tested and "communication has gone (...)
The Irish-based ROQU Group has announced the pilot launch of Health Passport, a world-first digital platform designed to facilitate increased COVID-19 testing for businesses and the public.
Engineered in Ireland, the platform combines the latest (...)
