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Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India broke through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s histori(...)

The big question about microplastics
- Life & Style
- January 24, 2021, 00:00
The Great Wave by the Japanese artist Hokusai is just about everywhere these days – printed on tablecloths to notebooks and even dresses, while there’(...)

Young people and activism: ‘You can’t stand by and hope everything’s going to be okay’
- People
- January 23, 2021, 06:00
Is this the age of the young female activist? Amika George led a movement at 17 that changed the lives of millions of schoolgirls. She tells Cather(...)

Covid-19: 13 die at Lusk nursing home as State deals with 160 outbreaks
- Health
- January 23, 2021, 01:00
There have been 13 deaths recorded during a Covid-19 outbreak at a north Co Dublin nursing home with a “significant number” of residents and staff inf(...)

Joe Biden signs executive order for US to rejoin Paris climate accord
- US
- January 20, 2021
US president Joe Biden has signed an executive order paving the way for the US to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, reversing one of the signature m(...)

Burberry says shop closures hit sales, warns of more disruption
- Retail & Services
- January 20, 2021, 12:28
British luxury brand Burberry said underlying sales fell 9 per cent in the three months ended December as the Covid-19 pandemic closed shops and it wa(...)

Wife unable to attend husband’s funeral because she has Covid-19
- Irish News
- January 20, 2021, 12:14
A 34-year-old man who died from Covid-19 was described at his funeral Mass on Wednesday as “a very kind and gentle nurse who was always smiling”. Sol(...)

The best independent Irish craft beers, as voted by brewers
- Drink
- January 20, 2021, 11:00
Plans were afoot in 2020 for the first Independent Craft Brewers of Ireland (ICBI) beer festival and a beer of the year competition. For obvious reaso(...)

Nurse who died while being treated for Covid-19 was ‘wonderful caring man’
- Irish News
- January 18, 2021, 23:38
A nurse who died while being treated for Covid-19 has been described by a nursing home where he once worked as someone who was “full of life and had a(...)

Bolsonaro forced to bring forward Brazil’s national vaccination campaign
- World
- January 18, 2021, 17:38
Brazil started its national vaccination campaign against coronavirus on Monday, with doubts over the country’s capacity to produce enough doses to bri(...)