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An EgyptAir flight carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew members on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean minutes before it was expected to land. A search is underway but […]

A UN panel that ruled this week that the herbicide glyphosate was probably ‘not carcinogenic to humans’ has become embroiled in a bitter row about potential conflicts of interests. It has emerged that two people […]

Russia are to restore a missile attack warning station located near Sevastopol in Crimea, in response to increasing NATO activity in the Black Sea. The early warning radar station will be modernized to detect possible […]

The death toll from devastating landslides triggered by massive torrential rains has risen to thirty five according to Sri Lanka officials. The army have said that scores of people remained unaccounted for after mudslides hit […]

Medical professionals led by a former president of the Irish Medical Organisation are to call for a permanent ban of fracking in Ireland. Concerned Health Professionals Ireland (CHPI)  involves more than a dozen health practitioners […]

One of the alliance’s most senior retired generals has warned that Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia within a year if it does not increase its defence capabilities in the Baltic states. Banging the war-drum, […]

Artists in Germany have projected images onto the Turkish and Saudi Arabian embassies in Berlin comparing Turkey’s Erdogan to Hitler and implicating the Saudis as supporting terrorism. The artists projected a large picture of Turkish […]

Belgian riot police clashed with prison guards who were on strike and demonstrating at the Justice Ministry. The prison warders had burst into the Belgian Justice Ministry building on Tuesday, breaking windows and trashing fittings […]