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Orban urges Hungary to vote against migrants and liberal foreign elite
- Europe
- March 15, 2018, 18:59
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has urged his compatriots to use April’s elections to reject immigrants and a hostile foreign liberal elite, as tens of (...)

Long-term outlook for Palestinian aid agency in doubt despite pledges
- Middle East
- March 15, 2018, 18:05
The United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees said on Thursday it had received new cash pledges to enable it to keep working for a few mor(...)

Civilians flee besieged eastern Ghouta as army advances
- Middle East
- March 15, 2018, 14:20
Thousands of Syrian civilians fled from a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing by foot to army positions in the first mass exodus from(...)

US joins Nato allies in closing ranks against Russia
- Europe
- March 15, 2018
Nato’s leading powers closed ranks against Vladimir Putin on Thursday as the US unveiled new sanctions against Moscow and joined with France and Germa(...)

Finland happiest country in the world as Ireland ranks 14th
- People
- March 15, 2018, 06:39
Happy are the people of the Nordic nations, happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identica(...)

Espionage analysis: PM’s statement notable for what is missing
- UK
- March 14, 2018, 15:01
After days of sabre-rattling, British PM Theresa May’s response to the Salisbury attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal was, on the face of it, a modest o(...)

Ratified, up to a point
- Editorial
- March 14, 2018, 00:01
The Department of Justice has, once again, found reasons for not doing the generous thing for a disadvantaged group of people. This time, it was decid(...)

China's Xi urges better communication with South Korea over nuclear crisis
- Asia-Pacific
- March 12, 2018, 17:04
President Xi Jinping has said China and South Korea should improve communication and properly resolve sensitive issues, after news of a possible summi(...)

Higher number of women soldiers ‘leads to better decisions’
- Irish News
- March 8, 2018, 18:00
The evidence is “overwhelming” that more women soldiers have led to better decision-making, the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice-Admiral Mar(...)

Close Viktor Orban ally defends Vienna anti-migrant video
- Europe
- March 8, 2018, 17:45
A chief aide to Hungary’s populist prime minister Viktor Orban has rejected criticism of a video that he made in Vienna claiming that immigrants had b(...)