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Hillary Clinton had said she believed that there were attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria – something Russia denies.
Women and children have been sheltering in basements for days, according to activists.
UN envoy Kofi Annan believes the time has come for regional and international pressure on Bashar Assad.
It’s ten years to the day since Roy Keane was sent home from the Republic of Ireland’s World Cup training camp.
The FAI chief claims that Roy Keane’s jibes are self-serving and the former captain would be better off if he just ‘let it go.’
The man who led the United States to independence trumps the Corkonian rebel leader in a poll of British academics.
Online poll puts War of Independence revolutionary ahead of Rommel, Napoleon and George Washington in ‘Britain’s Greatest Foes’ list… but behind the founder of modern Turkey.
The 15 members of the UN Security Council have condemned Syria for not allowing the head of humanitarian aid for the UN visit the country.
A top UN official has said that over 7500 people have died so far in the ongoing violence.
The former president said today that possible crimes against humanity cannot simply be ignored.
Ban Ki-Moon has asked Valerie Amos to visit Syria to assess the humanitarian situation and renew the call for urgent access.
At least 14 bombs have exploded in the city this morning, marking the worst violence seen in Iraq for several months.
Major new photographic exhibition shows the bloody reality of life in Ireland from the 1913 Lockout to the tortured birth of the Republic.
At least one person has been killed and several more injured during clashes between Government troops and rival tribesmen.
However the flow of gas supplies may not resume for another month.
Armed men burst into the pub in the central African nation of Burundi, with one yelling “make sure there’s no survivors”, according to witnesses.
Children in war-ravaged Congo are mining the materials used to make our mobiles. Film-maker Frank Poulsen describes the horror inside the tunnels.
Fears of another civil war breaking out in Sudan have intensified, with gunmen shooting at UN helicopters and northern troops being given a “green light” to attack southern forces if provoked.
Northern occupation of the town of Abyei threatens to re-ignite Sudan’s civil war. The oil-rich area is strongly contested and there are fears of escalating violence.
The occupation of the border town of Abyei by Northern forces has raised fears of re-igniting the civil war between north and south just months after the South voted to secede from the North in a referendum following two decades of war.
Mr Gbagbo has refused to give up the presidency despite the fact the Ivory Coast’s citizens elected Alassane Outtara to the role last November.
Observers fear that full-blown civil war will erupt in the country, as protests against defiant strongman Laurent Gbagbo continue.
The latest violence could bring about the end of the country’s six-year ceasefire.
Recently studied IRA documents suggest that the ambush was “fortuitous”.