Articles by Niamh Harris

‘EU foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday to discuss plans to arm Iraq’s Kurds against an extremist insurgency. France and the US have already begun to supply weapons to the […]

‘In the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyeh, there is a building known as “Red Security”. Once it was the headquarters of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence services. Now it is a museum. Prison cells have been left as […]

‘More than £20,000 has been stolen from four passengers aboard the doomed MH370 flight. Five months after the Malaysia Airlines flight went missing, mysterious withdrawals totaling 111,000 RM (£20,916) have been recorded, reports claim. A […]

‘Satellites run by Google and other private companies may soon have the ability to capture images of a person’s face and other sensitive information if federal restrictions continue to loosen from lobbying. According to Motherboard, […]

‘President Vladimir Putin described on Thursday the current situation in Ukraine as “bloody chaos”, pledging that Moscow will make every effort to stop the conflict. “The country has fallen in bloody chaos, fratricidal conflict,” Putin […]

‘Yasmina Haifi, who works for the Dutch Justice Ministry’s National Cyber Security Centre, made the controversial statement on Twitter yesterday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported. Referring to IS by their former name, the Islamic State […]

‘A Liberal Democrat minister called last night for cannabis to be legalised for medical use. Norman Baker said the drug could help relieve symptoms for sufferers of conditions such as multiple sclerosis and help those […]

A new report says the US government under George W. Bush had urged Tony Blair’s government in UK to construct facilities in Diego Garcia like the US has at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The report which […]

‘Libya’s parliament has called for foreign intervention to protect civilians from deadly clashes between rival militia groups. MPs were meeting in Tobruk in the east because of violence in the capital Tripoli and the second […]

‘After decades of rearing hogs, Danish farmer IbBorup Pedersen was alarmed at the growing incidence of malformations and biological defects among his newborn piglets. Deformities included gaps in piglets’ skulls, deformed bones, missing limbs and […]