Liam Nolan

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Managing Editor at @EscapistMag. Bylines: @Marvel, @CBR, @JapanTimes, & more. He/Him. Profile pic: @spenserdraws. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

How Russia's Victory Day reflects a divided world order

5 days ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

Twenty years ago in Moscow's Red Square, former US President George W Bush sat alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany. The leaders of France, Germany and other European countries also attended Russia's Victory Day celebrations in 2005. Back then, it looked like the divisions of the Cold War had been plastered over.
Israeli blockade 'unacceptable' for most of EU

6 days ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

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Woman killed in axe attack in Warsaw

1 week ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

A woman was killed yesterday evening in an axe attack on the campus of the University of Warsaw in the Polish capital. Local media reported that a 53-year-old woman was attacked by a 22-year-old male law student. The woman died immediately at the scene. The University of Warsaw has confirmed that she was a member of staff at the university.
Is Romania's far-right party leader set to be president?

1 week ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

It was not surprising that George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), topped the first-round vote of Romania's rerun presidential election yesterday. The 38-year-old had been polling at around 30% for the past couple of weeks and last night, two exit polls reflected those predictions. But with almost all votes counted, he has performed much better than polls had indicated, winning 41% of votes.
Was it fair to rerun Romania's presidential election?

1 week ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

On Sunday, Romanians will go to the polls for a second time in six months to elect a new president. This second election takes place amid political turmoil over a decision by Romania's constitutional court last December to annul the previous vote on the grounds of suspected campaign irregularities. But was it democratically fair to rerun the entire process? Central to the discussion is Călin Georgescu, the candidate who topped the first round of the previous election in November.
Can a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire deal be agreed this week?

3 weeks ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

For weeks, Russia has toyed with US-led efforts to broker a ceasefire agreement to halt the war in Ukraine. Russian officials have talked with their US counterparts for hours on end, agreed temporary ceasefires in March, which its forces then broke, only to make new demands as the price for stopping their country's invasion of Ukraine.
Why Germany robustly polices pro-Palestinian protests

3 weeks ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, pro-Palestinian demonstrations in German cities and universities have become flashpoints between protestors and police. Modern, multicultural Germany includes large Muslim and Arabic communities but the country's World War II history and sense of responsibility to atone for its Nazi past and crimes against the Jewish people, has meant that Germany's support for Israel has been sacrosanct for successive governments.
Is Russia mocking US peace efforts in Ukraine?

1 month ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

Dead civilians covered in sheets of foil, burnt out cars and destroyed buildings. That was the scene that news crews filmed on Sunday in Sumy, a city in northeastern Ukraine. Russia had fired two ballistic missiles at the city's central district, killing 35 civilians, including two children. More than 115 people were injured. A week previously, another Russian ballistic missile killed 19 civilians, among them nine children, in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.
Defence plan priority for Poland's EU Council presidency

1 month ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

Poland's finance minister has said that the European Commission's ReArm Europe defence plan is now a top priority for his country's presidency of the Council of the European Union. Andrzej Domański said the aim of the Polish presidency is now to "finalise work on the package urgently". EU finance ministers were meeting for a second day in Warsaw and spent the morning discussing how member states can put the commission's defence spending proposals into action.
Govt would not support DSTs on US big tech, says Donohoe

1 month ago | rte.ie | Liam Nolan

The Minister for Finance has said that the Government would not support the use of Digital Sales Taxes (DSTs) on US big tech as a countermeasure to resolve the current impasse between the European Union and the United States over trade tariffs. Paschal Donohoe was speaking in Warsaw on the second day of EU finance ministers meeting.