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Tuesday 24 November 2020
Floyd’s death is seen as the latest example of police brutality against African Americans in the US.
Tourists and residents can now return to the historic square.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte described the flooding as ‘a blow to the heart of our country’.
Many homes have been evacuated and power has been cut due to the fires.
Trump hinted in remarks at a White House meeting on cross-border trafficking.
Authorities have declared emergencies in several areas.
The drought comes after the second-driest spring in 60 years.
At least 44 people were killed in two church bombings yesterday.
The earthquake led to a tsunami warning being issued in El Salvador.
The US is now bracing itself for Hurricane Matthew, with states of emergencies declared in a number of places.
Ambassador Necip Egüz defended his country’s post-coup crackdown, and insisted there was no threat to tourist areas.
The so-called Islamic State group said today’s attack was carried out by its ‘soldiers’.
President Erdogan has vowed to hunt down those responsible for last week’s coup.
The decision to extend the national state by six months comes in the wake of last Thursday’s terror attack in Nice.
No fatalities have been reported.
Canadian government officials said yesterday they were sending an emergency psychiatric team to the isolated aboriginal community.
Extreme weather is forecast across at least 15 states.
A state of emergency has been announced in the country.
Several police officers were injured tonight.
The bombing was carried out by a suspected jihadist who rammed a checkpoint with his explosives-packed vehicle.
The child is in critical condition and some 130 people were injured in the quake.
‘Rapid Response Vehicles’ — which cost the taxpayer over €100,000 each — are effectively being used by managers as ‘company cars’…
As many as 5,000 protestors were gathered across five really points this morning.
Scores were killed in a crackdown on camps of Morsi loyalists this morning. A month-long state of emergency has been declared in the country.
A smoky haze blamed on Indonesian forest fires has triggered one of the country’s worst pollution levels in years.
The Boeing 777 jet made an unscheduled precautionary landing at Shannon after detecting smoke in the cabin.
Hurricane Sandy could mix with a winter storm to create what has been dubbed ‘Frankenstorm’.
President Obama has called on residents in the storm’s projected path to heed the warnings, saying: “Now’s not the time to tempt fate.”
Tropical Storm Isaac may to be upgraded to a hurricane – and could hit the day before the seventh anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.
The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, declared a state of emergency in certain areas of the country following an attack that left 39 dead on Christmas Day.
A 60-day state of emergency has been declared in four provinces of Cajamarca state, following violent protests against a gold-and-copper mining project which is part-owned by a US company.
An off-duty Garda is missing after falling into the Liffey in Wicklow, while heavy rain wreaks havoc with transport across the country.
People with houses within the exclusion zone around Fukushima I have been returning home, against government orders.
Japan’s nuclear regulator raises its alert warning from level 5 to 7 – putting the Fukushima crisis on a par with Chernobyl.
Tokyo Electric Power Company’s share price reaches an all-time low after the company pledges to cover evacuation costs.
The presence of the highly radioactive element in the soil confirms damage to reactor number 3, where it was housed.
Recordings that suggested the level of radiation was ‘ten million times’ higher than normal were erroneous, TEPCO says.
Staff working to try and restore power to the Fukushima cooling systems are hospitalised after major radiation exposure.
Ireland’s nuclear watchdog says atmospheric pressure will determine whether trace amounts of radiation will reach our shores.
Water supplies contain more radioactive iodine than is safe for young children to drink – as black smoke emerges from Fukushima.
IRELAND’S LEVEL 5 restrictions are set to come to an end on Tuesday next week, 1 December, and the government is set to decide later this week what will be implemented to replace them.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin told the Irish Examiner this morning that the country will move back to Level Three restrictions from 1 December, allowing non-essential retail to reopen in time for the Christmas trade.
While retail stores look set to reopen, allowing people to get their Christmas shopping done in person, many people are still opting to do a lot of their festive shopping online their year.
So, today we want to know… Do you plan to do most of your Christmas shopping in person?
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