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Deliveroo delivery workers protest over attacks in Dublin
- Irish News
- February 22, 2019, 15:10
Up to 100 delivery workers gathered outside the Deliveroo food service’s offices in Dublin on Friday to protest at the number of violent attacks again(...)

After ‘El Chapo’, Mexico faces a new phase in its neverending war on drugs
- World
- February 21, 2019, 01:00
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received a blunt warning earlier this month: a crude hand-painted sign strung up on a bridge in the border city (...)

Venezuela pledges to keep troops on border to stop ‘violations’
- World
- February 19, 2019, 07:27
Venezuelan troops will remain stationed along the country’s borders to prevent territorial violations, the defence minister said on Tuesday, ahead of(...)

Vogue Brazil director resigns over ‘slavemaster’ photos
- World
- February 15, 2019, 18:28
The fashion director of the Brazilian edition of Vogue has resigned after photos from her 50th birthday party drew criticism for evoking colonial depi(...)

Rise of the unicorns: The boom in billion-dollar startups
- Innovation
- February 14, 2019, 04:09
Technology startups worth $1 billion, once as rare as unicorns, are now plentiful enough and old enough that there is a new generation behind them – o(...)

Pope Francis rejects Maduro’s mediation request, say reports
- World
- February 13, 2019, 10:20
Pope Francis has reportedly rejected a request from Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro to mediate in the stand-off with his political opponents, say(...)

‘Cork is a very rebellious city. Going there was the best thing I ever did’
- People
- February 13, 2019, 05:59
Growing up in Brazil, Alexandra Soares never felt like she identified with the culture of her home country. In Rio de Janeiro, she found that young wo(...)

Gordon Banks, World Cup winner with England, dies aged 81
- International
- February 12, 2019, 10:11
Gordon Banks, a World Cup winner with England in 1966 whose diving, twisting save to thwart Pelé in 1970 is lauded as one of the greatest feats of goa(...)

It is not just about quantity of sleep we get – quality matters too
- Health & Family
- February 11, 2019, 08:58
Sleep deprivation can be torture, quite literally. After a week of being kept awake, a 19th-century Chinese merchant who had been sentenced to death b(...)

Venezuelan opposition set for showdown with Maduro over aid
- World
- February 11, 2019, 06:00
Venezuela’s opposition will attempt to bring international aid into the crisis-stricken country in the “coming days” setting up a showdown with the em(...)