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President Higgins to be conferred with honorary doctorate

President Michael D Higgins is being conferred with an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester, which he attended as a postgraduate student more than 50 years ago. He will also be making an inaugural lecture in a new series that will run for the next five years. The President’s …

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UK parliment passes Rwanda asylum bill

The British government’s scheme to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda looks likely to become law by the end of the week. The Rwanda Bill finally passed both Houses of Parliament during a late night sitting and is expected to be given royal assent within days. The plan was first unveiled …

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E-car prices need to halve to win over mass market

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has said that electric car prices would need to halve to ensure they are adopted by the mass market. The court also said in a new report that the EU may have to review its decision to ban the sales of internal combustion engine …

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MEPs to vote on banning products made using forced labour

The European Parliament is expected to approve new measures to ban the sale, import and export of goods made using forced labour. Products found to be in breach of the new regulations will be withdrawn from the EU market. According to the United Nation’s International Labour Organisation, almost 28 million …

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Double-digit growth in price of farmland in 2023

The most expensive average price for farmland in the country last year was in Co Waterford, where the best quality land cost €20,000 per acre, a new report has shown. According to figures from the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland (SCSI) and Teagasc, the lowest price paid for farmland …

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Netanyahu an ‘obstacle’ to two-state solution

Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an obstacle to a two-state solution and should resign. Speaking to RTÉ’s Six One News during a visit to Ireland, Ms Pelosi described the 7 October attacks as an act of cruel …

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More bodies recovered from ‘mass graves’ at Gaza hospital

Israeli troops fought their way back into an eastern section of Khan Younis in a surprise raid, residents said, sending people who had returned to abandoned homes in the ruins of southern Gaza’s main city fleeing once more. Elsewhere in Khan Younis, scores more bodies were recovered from what Palestinian …

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Jury sworn in for NI showjumper murder trial

A jury has been sworn in ahead of trial in the case of the alleged rape and murder of 21-year-old showjumper Katie Simpson almost four years ago. Jonathan Creswell, aged 36, previously of Briar Hill Gardens, Greysteel, but now with an address which cannot be published, is charged with murdering …

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