Updated: 11.25am Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said he expects further Covid-19 recommendations from the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) due to ongoing concern over the Omicron variant. Mr Varadkar’s comments come as Nphet are due to meet on Thursday morning to consider the current Covid-19 situation. Currently, the OmicronContinue Reading
After 18 months of deliberations and three hearings of evidence from witnesses and experts – including anthropologists, political scientists and international lawyers – the London-based Uyghur Tribunal has ruled that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide, by coercive birth control. The UyghurContinue Reading
The UK government’s introduction of new restrictions to deal with the “omicron emergency” has prompted backlash from some politicians. When the changes were put to the House of Commons, more than 100 Tory MPs voted against the plans. Several expressed concern over the impact measures such as having to showContinue Reading
The news media cover humanitarian crises selectively. Events associated with clear, dramatic imagery, such as the 2020 Beirut port explosion, often receive intense global news coverage. By contrast, protracted humanitarian crises that are more difficult to access and explain to audiences, such as the civil war in Yemen that hasContinue Reading
Luke Pollard, the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has added his support to call for a national memorial day to fishermen lost at sea. In a debate in the House of Commons called by Hull MP Karl Turner, Luke said: “In Plymouth we have lost four fishers in recentContinue Reading
VGstockstudio / Shutterstock With the new year on the way, no doubt many headlines will be urging readers to set resolutions to lose the weight they may have put on over the holidays. However, the way the British press talks about weight, obesity and health has fluctuated markedly in recentContinue Reading
Cash crop: poppy cultivation and heroin trafficking vie with people smuggling as some of the most lucrative ways of making money in Afghanistan. EPA-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi In the frontier town of Zaranj on Afghanistan’s border with Iran, young men jostle one another as they cram into pickups that leave at regularContinue Reading
The UK government has launched a national review into the horrific abuse and murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Arthur was six years old when he was killed in Solihull by his stepmother, Emma Tustin. He had suffered months of physical and emotional torture by Tustin and her partner, Arthur’s birth father,Continue Reading
The UK government has promised to ban new houses being sold as leaseholds. K303 | Shutterstock Long leasehold is a prominent feature of the property market in England and in Wales. Homes owned under leasehold in each country number around 4.6m and 235,000 respectively. (Scotland has a completely different lawContinue Reading
The Government Chief Whip says that he does not foresee any additional Covid restrictions between now and Christmas. As the Irish Examiner reports, Jack Chambers told Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio that he does not see any restrictions being added to those already in place. He said that the GovernmentContinue Reading
