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5 days ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
THERE HAVE BEEN more than 70 attacks and death threats against journalists in Northern Ireland over the last six years, a report by Amnesty International has found. Northern Ireland has been described as the most dangerous place in the UK to be a reporter following the report which includes accounts from journalists under threat. Occupational Hazard?
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5 days ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump is “open” to meeting his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts in Turkey, the White House said, after the two sides failed on Monday to make headway towards an elusive ceasefire. Delegations from both sides did, however, agree another large-scale prisoner exchange in their meeting in Istanbul, which in mid-May also hosted their first round of face-to-face talks.
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5 days ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
NEW SEARCHES BY German police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are expected to begin in Portugal today. Madeleine, then aged three, disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the resort of Praia da Luz after her parents went out to dinner and left her sleeping in a room with her toddler twin siblings.
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5 days ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
EIGHT NEW MEN have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse against the disgraced former surgeon Michael Shine. The fresh claims come just weeks after Shine’s first media interview, when the unrepentant convicted paedophile told The Journal that he had no remorse for his crimes. It brings the total number of men who have accused Shine, and who are now seeking justice via the criminal courts, to 36.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
DISGRACED SURGEON MICHAEL Shine claimed during the 2019 trial that saw him jailed for abusing seven boys that he had “no memory whatsoever” of any of the victims, but in an interview with The Journal last week he recalled the medical treatment he gave one victim and shared details of the abdominal surgery that he performed on him. Furthermore, the paedophile surgeon claimed to have “cured him”.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the world is “breaking the bodies and minds” of the children of Gaza. Irishman Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme, said people are “complicit” in what is happening in Gaza if they fail to act. It comes as aid workers warn of an escalating humanitarian crisis following two months of an aid and food blockade.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
GAZA’S CIVIL DEFENCE agency said that an overnight Israeli strike on the Khan Yunis refugee camp killed at least 11 people including three babies up to a year old. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal reported 11 killed “after the bombardment of the Al-Bayram family home in the Khan Yunis camp” in southern Gaza at around 3:00 am (1AM Irish time).
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
RUSSIAN DRONE STRIKES on Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv wounded 47 people late yesterday, police said, while Russian officials reported a “massive attack” by Ukraine on the Krasnodar region. “Hostile attacks on Kharkiv resulted in 47 injured civilians,” police in the Kharkiv region wrote on Telegram. Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov previously said that around 50 people had been wounded in the strikes, including an 11-year-old girl. “Fires have broken out.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
A WOMAN INVOLVED in robberies died early today after an explosion in front of a bank in Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, the police said. The 38-year-old was rushed to the hospital after her hand was mutilated in the explosion. Police spokeswoman Konstantia Dimoglidou said investigators were trying to determine the “possible scenario” that she was carrying a device that exploded.
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1 month ago | 
thejournal.ie | Saoirse McGarrigle
THE UNITED STATES will stage a military parade on 14 June to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army, with the event also falling on President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. Trump “will honour American Veterans, active-duty servicemembers, and military history with a military parade!” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly wrote on X.
