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Pakistan said it had carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, a day after Tehran launched attacks on Pakistan territory earlier this week. Iranian state media reported three women and four children were killed in explosions in the country’s southeast. “This morning Pakistan undertook a series of highly coordinated …

The United States conducted another round of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, US officials told Reuters. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity and did not provide details on the target or how many missiles were launched. Attacks by the Iran-allied Houthi militia on ships in the region …

Tens of thousands of workers are taking to picket lines across Northern Ireland today in one of the biggest strikes in a generation. Services across health, education, transport and the wider civil service will be severely disrupted, as up to 170,000 public sector workers take to the streets over pay. …

Primary schools in Roscrea, Co Tipperary have the capacity to take additional pupils and are not ‘full’, as some protesters at the Racket Hall Hotel site, as well as local politicians, have claimed. Earlier this week, Independent TD Mattie McGrath told a public gathering in the town that its “schools …

A conference in Dublin will examine essential workers’ job quality and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. The event is entitled ‘Working in Essential Services: Lessons from Working during Covid-19’ and will be held in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. It will explore whether essential workers possess the skills …

Ireland has once again topped a league table of European countries for issuing data fines. The 2024 edition of global law firm DLA Piper’s annual GDPR and Data Breach Survey shows that supervisory authorities across Europe have issued a total of €1.78 billion in fines since 28 January 2023, which …

The European Union’s first directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence will not include the crime of rape, after a number of countries including Ireland, could not agree on a legal definition. Under the proposed text, backed by the European Parliament and Commission, rape is based on a …

There was a slight increase in the number of homes available to rent under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme at the end of last year. The latest Simon Communities of Ireland ‘Locked Out of the Market’ quarterly report showed there were 33 properties to rent in December within the …

The prosecutor investigating a dramatic armed assault by gangsters last week on an Ecuadoran television station during a live broadcast was shot dead, the attorney general said. A prosecution source told AFP that Cesar Suarez had been in charge of finding the gang responsible for the terror-inspiring attack on state-owned …

The Health and Safety Authority is to embark on a two week farm safety inspection campaign, focusing on livestock safety during the calving season. Inspections on a sample of farms will begin next week. Last year five people lost their lives on Irish farms in incidents involving livestock and over …