# conflict - Friday 3 January, 2020
The air strike ordered by President Donald Trump in Iraq’s capital Baghdad killed General Qassem Soleimani.
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# conflict - Friday 27 December, 2019
The weapon can make sharp manoeuvres en route to its target, making it harder to intercept.
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# conflict - Sunday 1 September, 2019
The International Committee of the Red Cross said at least 40 survivors were being treated for their injuries in hospitals.
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# conflict - Saturday 10 August, 2019
Two Irish filmmakers travelled to Gaza to make a documentary about life there.
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# conflict - Saturday 11 May, 2019
You can show solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom against Israeli apartheid, occupation and war crimes by supporting the boycott, writes Zoe Lawlor.
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They pretend that the Jewish people have no right to live in the places where they were born and where their history, religion and culture are deeply rooted, writes the Israeli ambassador to Ireland, Ophir Kariv.
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# conflict - Sunday 5 May, 2019
Tánaiste Simon Coveney called for an end to the ‘indiscriminate attacks’.
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# conflict - Saturday 30 March, 2019
Israel deployed several thousand troops along the border, with the anniversary coming at a sensitive time ahead of its 9 April elections.
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# conflict - Thursday 28 February, 2019
The move comes after clashes between the nuclear-armed powers ignited fears of a disastrous conflict.
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# conflict - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
The countries have been in a dispute for over 70 years in relation to the Kashmir region.
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# conflict - Monday 24 December, 2018
# conflict - Monday 3 December, 2018
Eight others were sentenced to hard labour ranging from six to 15 years.
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# conflict - Sunday 10 June, 2018
The Ivorian’s extraordinary criticism of the Man City boss has been met with a strong response.
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# conflict - Saturday 2 June, 2018
The military and a number of rebel groups have drafted underage soldiers for years.
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# conflict - Wednesday 30 May, 2018
Gaza’s Hamas rulers have said in recent hours that they have agreed to a ceasefire, but Israel denied this.
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# conflict - Monday 14 May, 2018
The United States officially opened its new embassy in Jerusalem today.
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# conflict - Friday 30 March, 2018
A State Department spokesperson said they were not aware of any decision to pull troops out of Syria.
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# conflict - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
South Korea also claims that Pyongyang said it would consider abandoning nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
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# conflict - Sunday 11 February, 2018
Russia has condemned, but the US has backed, Israel’s actions.
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# conflict - Thursday 28 December, 2017
In conflicts around the world, children have become frontline, used as human shields, killed, maimed and recruited to fight.
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# conflict - Monday 4 December, 2017
A video has emerged showing what appears to be the man’s corpse.
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# conflict - Sunday 19 November, 2017
The corpses have been stored there for the past year awaiting a final decision on their fate.
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# conflict - Thursday 5 October, 2017
The US Africa command confirmed in a statement that a joint US and Nigerien patrol came under fire in Niger.
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# conflict - Friday 22 September, 2017
# conflict - Sunday 17 September, 2017
A library in Belfast has collected tens of thousands of items related to the Troubles and subsequent peace process.
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The criticism comes a week after the minister announced a number of new measures to address the crisis.
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# conflict - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
A new agreement between Washington and Seoul will allow the South to develop more powerful weapons.
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# conflict - Thursday 13 July, 2017
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney arrived in Israel on Tuesday for a three-day visit to the Middle East.
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# conflict - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
Coveney said it was a good “straight talking meeting”.
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# conflict - Tuesday 4 July, 2017
Men, women and children in South Sudan have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burnt alive.
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# conflict - Saturday 17 June, 2017
The Islamist movement marked 10 years in power in Gaza on Thursday, 15 June.
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# conflict - Monday 22 May, 2017
Trump vowed to make ‘the ultimate deal’ with Israel and Palestine during his presidential campaign last year.
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# conflict - Monday 17 April, 2017
“What was already one of the most acute humanitarian crises in the world is worsening,” one MSF official said.
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# conflict - Saturday 4 February, 2017
US president Donald Trump was to hold his first talks with Ukraine’s leader today.
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# conflict - Thursday 2 February, 2017
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that new settlements would be created for the families.
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# conflict - Friday 27 January, 2017
The UN has warned that famine is now a possible scenario for 2017.
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# conflict - Friday 13 January, 2017
The striker, who already has 14 goals to his name this season, is understood to have fallen out with his manager.
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# conflict - Tuesday 13 December, 2016
A rebel official said an evacuation deal, sponsored by Russia and Turkey, was set to take effect within hours.
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# conflict - Monday 3 October, 2016
Both sides are, however, insisting that peace will prevail.
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# conflict - Monday 26 September, 2016
Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan is to ‘convey concerns to Russian authorities’ as Western powers accuse Russia of war crimes.
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'He slapped me in the face three or four times:' Club president attacks TV pundit
FC Sion president Christian Constantin was seen attacking a TV pundit after a league game.
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