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Zika carrying mosquito: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the figure of potential risk for the birth defect microcephaly following Zika infection at anywhere between 1 per cent and 13 per cent. Photograph: Felipe Dana, AP Photo
Three Zika virus cases confirmed in Guinea Bissau

Three cases of the Zika virus have been confirmed in Guinea Bissau in West Africa. The UN health agency said it and national authorities are investi(...)

Irish and Romanian soccer fans in Versailles ahead of Euro 2016. File photograph: ©INPHO/Donall Farmer
Euro 2016: Emergency number for Irish fans revealed

The Department of Foreign Affairs has issued an emergency number for Irish fans attending Euro 2016 in France. The number is +33144176780 and has go(...)

Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel is under growing domestic pressure to drive down asylum seeker numbers. Photoghraph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Germany urges Pakistan and others to take back asylum seekers

Germany has sent angry letters to Pakistan as well as north and west African countries, accusing them of refusing to take back failed asylum applicant(...)

An explosion during a Nato military exercise in Drawsko Pomorskie military range in Poland. A global security report said on Wednesday that the cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion last year. Photograph: Marcin Bielecki/EPA.
Cost of global violence hit $14 trillion in 2014, study claims
  • World
  • June 17, 2015, 12:42

The cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion (€12.7 trillion) in 2014, equivalent to the combined economies of Brazil, Can(...)

A Liberian woman reads an Ebola information poster on the prevention of the Ebola epidemic, during UNICEF’s sensitisation campaign. Photograph: Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA
West African nations should prepare for Ebola, Who says

West African countries neighbouring those hit by the Ebola epidemic including Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegtions neal and Guinea Bissau should prepare for (...)

Prof Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses of NUI Maynooth. Photograph: Eric Luke
A military alliance between Portugal and African states that few knew about

Portugal today marks the 40th anniversary of the revolution that freed it from dictatorship. As it does so, new information is emerging about w(...)

Denmark and New Zealand were found to be the least corrupt on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index for 2013. Image: Transparency International
Ireland ranks 21 out of 177 countries on ‘corruption’ index

Ireland is ranked number 21 out of 177 countries named on the annual ‘corruption’ index published by Transparency International, up from a ranking of (...)