Saudi Arabia and Qatar have entered the race to lead the @who.int with the first official candidates to succeed @drtedros.who.int next year. Story for POLITICO PRO subscribers below. @politico.eu pro.politico.eu/news/221507

German medtech company Altona Diagnostics tell me they will be able to supply a new test for Bundibugyo virus, which is behind the rapidly worsening Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, “in the coming weeks." Full story for subscribers: pro.politico.eu/news/218930

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say

“It’s literally George Floyd on the streets of Dublin. I can’t believe that scene and that guy with his knee on his neck.”

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Israel has killed at least 259 journalists since 2023. "We denounce strongly what has now become a standard, dangerous practice of Israel to target and kill journalists and then claim, without providing any credible evidence, that they were involved with armed groups."

Lebanon: UN experts call for international independent investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists

GENEVA – The targeted killing of three Lebanese journalists constitutes another egregious attack on press freedom by Israeli forces and must be promptly, fully and independently investigated by an int...

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I spoke with Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia for @politico.com. His message: Latin America is not a “land to be conquered”. Plus his views on the climate crisis, a capitalist "culture of extinction" and Rubio's notion of Western, Christian civilization. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Colombia’s President Says We Are Heading Toward 'Extinction'

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back at Donald Trump.

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The U.S. was responsible for a strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is "still catastrophic" and has seen only a "marginal" improvement since the ceasefire, with worse to come due to the Middle East war, senior WHO officials told reporters today.

Middle East war threatens ‘marginal’ progress in Gaza since ceasefire, WHO warns

Humanitarian crisis “still catastrophic” and supply disruptions in Middle East preventing $6 million worth of medicines from reaching Gaza, says WHO.

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Israel’s war against Iran could “advance the genocide” in Gaza, the head of mission in Gaza for @doctorswithoutborders.org told me today. “The world has turned its eyes away to focus on this other conflict,” Helen Ottens-Patterson. www.politico.eu/article/us-i...

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues. Cheerful. Funny. Gentle. And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’

Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.

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Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

When the world’s largest tobacco company needed help lifting international restrictions on its products, it enlisted an unlikely ally: the European Union, a leader in tobacco control. Read our investigation with @theexamination.org.

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EU officials met with reps of Philip Morris International at least six times from September 2022 through 2024, documents show. The tobacco giant’s agenda? Enlist their help in lifting restrictions on its products. Read our investigation with @theexamination.org 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

Watching Ireland play international football has taken years off my life.

President Catherine Connolly has called for action on war, genocide and climate change, saying the normalisation of war “has never been and will never be acceptable” to Ireland, a nation with a long tradition of neutrality and peacekeeping. #VMNews

TB anywhere is TB everywhere. Join us to know the challenges people with TB continue to face in accessing the TB treatment in EU and EEA region. #TBSky #IDSky

Imagine being that tenant, having tried every single avenue of contact over 16 years only to be ignored time and time again, and then be told the issue was buried somewhere in the recesses of his mind.

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 10mo ago

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said "very comprehensive due diligence" was done on presidential candidate Jim Gavin, but that an issue with a former tenant was "probably buried somewhere in the recesses of his mind".

It looks like Colston was among those abducted by Israel yesterday. Ordinary people are capable of such bravery. I don’t know what to say

Tad DeLay@taddelay.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I don’t know Alex Colston well, but he was my editor on my article last summer on Palestine and apocalypticism. He’s one of the courageous people on the flotilla, reporting for Drop Site.

Breaking Terror charges against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh THROWN OUT

We are horrified and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died yesterday in #Gaza. His death was due to shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier.

He didn't just call for the exclusion of Israel, but those that arm Israel too. "We must look at their exclusion from the United Nations itself, and we should have no hesitation any longer in relation to ending trade with people who are inflicting this at our fellow human beings."

President suggests Israel should be excluded from the UN

President Michael D Higgins has suggested Israel and countries that supply it with weapons should be excluded from the United Nations.

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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations independent commission concluded in a report published today.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission says

“The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons,” says group’s chair.

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Very Important reporting from @bigevupdates.bsky.social on the biggest story in sport, Evan Ferguson's loan spell at Roma. Forza Evan 🇮🇪 bigevupdates.substack.com/p/pisa-previ...

Pisa Preview: Great Satisfactions

Liam Brady//Filippo Inzaghi//Barry Lyndon

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The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...

Palestine: hospital killings by Israeli forces show need for global action

The airstrikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in which at least 20 people were killed, including five journalists and media workers, underlines the need for global action to end the Israeli governme...

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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

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#GAZA: Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including a freelance journalist who worked for @apnews.com. At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.

Piece in the Times today about the how Freeman of the Land types have taken over the IRB, and it's full of delicious nuggets like them operating under their own timezone: Irish Rising Time