Summary: Wizz Air’s shares climbed as much as 16% on Thursday after the budget airline posted a near 26% rise in first-half operating profit. Despite the strong performance, the carrier warned of a slight decline in full-year revenue and flagged winter capacity as a short-term challenge. Wizz Air Holdings PLC reported a first-half operating profit […]
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Summary: Human rights organizations have accused El Salvador of torturing Venezuelan nationals deported from the United States earlier this year. A new report details systematic abuse inside the country’s maximum-security prison, raising questions about U.S. complicity and international accountability. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and regional advocacy group Cristosal released an 81-page report this week alleging […]
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Summary: Maynooth University has officially opened the National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education (NCIHE), Ireland’s first national hub dedicated to advancing equity, inclusion, and access across the higher education system. The centre aims to reduce inequality, expand opportunity, and strengthen pathways for underrepresented students and staff. Maynooth University in County Kildare has formally inaugurated the […]
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EU Adopts New Regulation to Modernise Air Traffic Controller Training with Competency-Based and Virtual Methods On 23 October 2025, Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2025/2143 introducing competency-based training and assessment and virtual training of air traffic controllers was adopted by the European Commission. This Regulation completes the package stemming from the regulatory proposal in the EASA […]
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From there, she and her husband fished, planted crops and raised animals. “I was a very happy person in that little piece of land – that was my paradise,” she says. Then came the night that changed everything. The rain arrived with thunder and lightning that tore through the darkness, shaking the small houses along […]
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Summary: The Irish government has launched a sweeping new housing strategy aimed at tackling vacancy, expanding social housing, and delivering 90,000 starter homes. The plan comes after a year marked by missed construction targets and record levels of homelessness, intensifying pressure on ministers to act decisively. The government will today unveiled its long-awaited National Housing […]
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Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations concluded two days of talks in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, reaffirming their commitment to Ukraine and condemning escalating violence in Sudan. The meeting, chaired by Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand, highlighted unity on urgent global crises while sidestepping disputes that risked dividing the bloc. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy […]
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Summary: President Donald Trump has signed into law the senate funding bill ending the nation’s longest government shutdown, a 43-day standoff that left federal employees unpaid, stranded travelers, and families dependent on food banks. The move reopens agencies and marks the close of a bitter political stalemate. President Donald Trump signed a funding bill late […]
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Thirteen survivors have been rescued by Malaysian authorities, but dozens remain missing. Another vessel with about 230 people on board is reportedly still at sea, raising fears of further tragedy. Thousands of Rohingya refugees continue to attempt perilous journeys across the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea in search of safety, as conditions worsen in […]
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Tanzanians took to the streets on 29 October against the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, in a protest that quickly escalated into violence and death. Harrowing reports have emerged of “families desperately searching everywhere for their loved ones, visiting one police station after another and one hospital after another,” the UN human rights chief Volker Türk […]
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