€25m aid package announced for British horse racing
The funds will be made available for jockeys, training yards, stable staff and horse welfare.
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The funds will be made available for jockeys, training yards, stable staff and horse welfare.
The scheme will be provided by the Irish Red Cross on behalf of the government.
More than 2,000 people have been forced to leave their flooded homes.
The concert will be held on the Simon Bolivar bridge which links San Antonio, Venezuela with Cucuta, in Colombia, where aid sent by the US is being held up and stored.
The powerful tsunami struck without any warning on Saturday night,
Mark Mullan is a finalist for the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards.
An Amnesty International report has expressed concern about how women and children are sexually exploited.
A spokesperson has confirmed that no staff employed by Oxfam Ireland were involved in the case.
The country is facing a serious famine due to an ongoing civil war.
Women’s Aid is calling for tougher punishments for abusers.
Donald Trump’s presidency is a tumultuous soap opera, but it’s making us ignore real humanitarian disasters, writes Dominic MacSorley.
John Reilly talks to TheJournal.ie after his trip to Mosul directly after the siege.
In a new deal, USAID has laid out conditions under which Goal must operate.
Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron won the support of a key centrist.
Three million people have been displaced from their homes by the ongoing conflict in the gulf state.
The US is now bracing itself for Hurricane Matthew, with states of emergencies declared in a number of places.
“Ireland remains committed to the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”
The week-long ceasefire in the war-ravaged country has collapsed.
The U2 frontman said he understands the financial stress countries are under as they debate how much aid to give.
A meeting on in Brussels also saw Turkey trying to strongarm the EU.
Almost half a million people in Syria are in areas under siege.
Kieran McCarthy chats to The42 about his impressive achievement on Monday.
The EU wants €10 million in state aid recovered.
The death toll has topped 6,000.
More than 220,000 people lost their lives in the disaster.
“These crises are not well-known situations, but the needs are very real”.
The money is going to South Sudan and Syria.
Seriously. According to the OECD, anyway.
Proper burials of the dead is preserving the dignity of the deceased.
The device creates a 3D soundscape to aid its wearer, providing them with context to their surroundings.
Ireland has now given €10 million to Palestine since 2010,
Ireland is the only donor country to allocate half of its total aid to the world’s least developed countries.
Meanwhile in Ukraine, the UN has launched a food aid operation in the war-torn east of the country.
Angela Merkel and Barack Obama warned that Moscow’s military presence and shelling were triggering a “dangerous escalation” of the conflict.
Today is World Humanitarian Day and Oxfam Ireland are calling for help.
World Humanitarian Day takes place on 19 August.
Ukraine claims it destroyed a Russian military convoy.
A convoy of armoured vehicles is said to be moving towards the Ukrainian border.