Category: World

Dublin, 4 October 2025 — The Irish Government has announced a new Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for Early Years Educators and School-Age Childcare Practitioners, delivering a 10% average increase in minimum hourly pay for approximately 35,000 workers in the sector. The new rates will take effect from 13 October 2025, replacing the 2024 ERO. New […]

Washington, 4 October 2025 — Apple has removed the controversial ICEBlock app from its App Store after the U.S. Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, demanded its removal, citing serious safety risks to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. App Function and Controversy ICEBlock was a crowdsourced platform that allowed users to […]

Istanbul, 4 October 2025 — A special flight carrying 137 international activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla landed at Istanbul Airport on Saturday, following their forcible detention and deportation by Israeli authorities. The group had been intercepted in international waters while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Multinational Group of Deportees The deported […]

Dublin, 4 October 2025 — Ireland’s top political leaders have welcomed Hamas’s announcement that it will release all remaining Israeli hostages — both living and deceased — under the terms of the proposed U.S.-brokered Middle East peace plan. The statements from Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris reflect Ireland’s […]

The inaugural meeting of the bilateral U.S.-Republic of Korea Business Travel and Visa Working Group convened in Washington on September 30. Co-chaired by Senior Bureau Official for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kevin Kim and Ambassador and Government Representative for Korean Nationals Overseas Protection and Consular Affairs Jung Kihong, the session underscored the importance of […]

All this, while aid convoys remain blocked from reaching hundreds of thousands trapped close to the frontlines and as the military government and their rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia battle for control of Sudan. Speaking from Tawila, 50 kilometres (about 31 miles) from El Fasher in North Darfur, Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown described the […]

Tunis, 4 October 2025 — A Tunisian court has handed down a death sentence to a man accused of insulting President Kais Saied and undermining state security through posts on social media, according to his lawyer and the Tunisian League for Human Rights. Unprecedented Ruling The defendant, identified as Saber Chouchane, a 56‑year‑old day labourer, […]

Washington, 3 October 2025 — U.S. President Donald J. Trump has called on Israel to immediately stop its bombing campaign in Gaza, following a statement from Hamas indicating readiness to release all Israeli hostages under the terms of his proposed peace plan. Trump’s Call for Restraint In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “Based […]

A man believed to be Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, has been shot dead by police after launching an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 55, died in the attack – one having been accidentally […]

The UK fully supports the 2016 Peace Agreement, which remains one of the most successful peace processes of the past 50 years.  It has delivered tangible improvements in security and prosperity for Colombia and remains a roadmap for further progress. Approaching the ninth anniversary of the Agreement, we remain concerned at the speed of implementation […]