Abdiwahab Ahmed

Bound by grief that might once have kept them apart, an Israeli father and a Palestinian father are instead using friendship as their strongest argument for peace. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin, who stood on opposite sides of the conflict as young men, now describe themselves as "family" and say they have devoted their lives to fostering respect and understanding between their peoples. The pair were in Dublin to address an event hosted by the charity Trócaire. They are no strangers to Ireland, having travelled across the…

Austrian authorities have found rat poison in a jar of HiPP baby food, escalating a product recall that pulled the brand from 1,500 SPAR supermarkets across the country amid urgent safety concerns. Police in Burgenland said a 190g jar of carrot with potato baby food, flagged by a customer in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district, tested positive for rat poison after being examined. HiPP said yesterday that it could not rule out the possibility that a dangerous substance had been introduced into the product, warning that its HiPP…

A burst of gunfire in a nightlife hub near the University of Iowa left multiple people wounded early Sunday, prompting a police investigation and emergency alerts from the school. The Iowa City Police Department said it was investigating the shooting, which city officials confirmed took place Sunday, and noted that "no arrests have been made." Officials said multiple victims were transported to nearby hospitals for treatment of injuries sustained in the shooting. Authorities said the victims' conditions were not immediately…

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but senior British ministers have rallied behind him as he tries to contain the fallout from a scandal involving Peter Mandelson, the long-time associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Mr Starmer is set to face MPs in parliament tomorrow, where he will be pressed on how Mr Mandelson came to be appointed Britain's ambassador to the United States in late 2024 despite failing security vetting. The prime minister, under fire for months over the affair, said on Friday that neither he nor…

Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev's political formation has emerged in first place in the country's eighth parliamentary election in five years, exit polls showed, though the result fell short of an outright majority. Mr Radev, who stepped down from the presidency in January, entered the race promising to tackle corruption after an anti-graft movement helped plunge Bulgaria into a prolonged period of political turmoil. The European Union's poorest member has cycled through a string of governments since 2021, when mass…

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Ukraine widened its campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure overnight, hitting several oil sites including two refineries in the Samara region and a Baltic Sea port used to ship petroleum products, according to Russian regional governors and a Ukrainian military official. In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have intensified strikes on Russian oil depots and refineries, targets seen as vital contributors to Moscow’s war financing. Some of those attacks have reached facilities located thousands of kilometres from the…

Thousands of far-right supporters filled central Milan on Saturday as nationalist leaders from across Europe staged a rally targeting irregular migration and what they cast as suffocating bureaucracy from Brussels, marking the movement’s first major show of unity since Viktor Orban’s election defeat in Hungary. Backers of the Patriots for Europe party, now the European Parliament’s third-largest bloc, gathered before Milan’s Duomo cathedral. A heavy police presence kept them apart from a separate anti-fascist demonstration…

A fresh sanctions waiver from President Donald Trump’s administration will allow the sale of Russian oil and petroleum products already at sea for another month, the latest sign that Washington is trying to contain a sharp rise in energy costs. The Treasury Department issued the license just two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would not extend the waiver. Under the new measure, buyers may purchase oil and petroleum products loaded onto any vessel as of Friday, up to 12.01 am (5.01am) on 16…

Fresh uncertainty gripped the Gulf as the Strait of Hormuz remained shut in the escalating standoff between Iran and the United States, with Iran's powerful parliament speaker making clear that, despite signs of progress, any final peace agreement was still a long way off. With mediation efforts continuing after high-level talks in Pakistan ended without a breakthrough, Tehran said the vital maritime chokepoint would stay closed unless Washington lifts its blockade of Iranian ports. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the…