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UK confirms it will send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine and pressures Germany to increase support – as it happened

UK defence secretary says west is accelerating efforts to support Ukraine but urges Germany to permit supply of Leopard tanks

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Russian mercenary boss says he wants Ukraine's Bakhmut for its 'underground cities'

The founder of Russia's most high-profile mercenary group said on Saturday he wanted his forces and the regular Russian army to capture the small city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine because it possessed "underground cities" that can hold troops and tanks.

Reuters

No respite in Ukraine fighting as shaky Russian truce ends

Intense shelling reported around Ukraine’s Bakhmut, despite Russia’s unilateral ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas.

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Russia intensifies attacks on Kherson in Ukraine's south, Bakhmut in east

Russian forces increased mortar and artillery attacks on the city of Kherson more than six weeks after it was retaken by Ukrainian troops, while also exerting pressure along frontlines in the east, Ukraine's military said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Russia retaliates on oil price cap as eastern Ukraine sees heavy fighting

Russia retaliated on Tuesday against a price cap on its oil imposed by Western countries, while its forces were involved in heavy fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

Reuters

A Ukrainian woman's harrowing quest to find her family

Nina Melenets finally buried her son in November, more than seven months after she said he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine.

Reuters

Ukraine warns of more Russian attacks on energy infrastructure

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday warned of more potential Russian attacks on his country's energy infrastructure, as officials urged residents in the capital Kyiv to consider making plans to leave as ongoing strikes threaten the power supply.

Reuters

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Shifting demographics stirs debate on Northern Ireland’s future

New census figures show that Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time ever.

Al Jazeera

Northern Ireland loyalists anxious as 'stalwart' queen passes

Loyalists laid flowers by a huge mural of a young Queen Elizabeth in a fiercely British corner of west Belfast, looking back at what they saw as a glorious past, and forward to what they feared was an uncertain future.

Reuters

Irish nuns bid to turn their convent green

A centuries-old Irish convent is using green energy and sustainable farming to try to make itself self sufficient in heating and food - and its 29 nuns are encouraging other religious communities to do the same.

Reuters

First pictures of twins, 8, and sister, 18, killed in 'violent incident' at home

Lisa Cash, Christy and Chelsea Cawley all died at a property in Tallaght, Dublin, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Daily Record

First year of N.Ireland protocol required 1 million customs declarations

Over 10,000 firms completed one million customs declarations to move goods from Britain into Northern Ireland in 2021, the first year of operation of post-Brexit checks that London is now seeking to scrap.

Reuters

Support for post-Brexit trade rules grows in Northern Ireland - poll

A growing majority of voters in Northern Ireland support the region's post-Brexit trade rules, large swathes of which the British government are currently moving to do away with, a survey showed on Wednesday.

Reuters

Northern Ireland post-Brexit 'protocol' hurting some, a boon for others

Irwin Armstrong, a former chair of Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in Northern Ireland, has a simple message for the British Prime Minister when it comes to the province's unique post-Brexit trade rules: Don't ruin a good thing.

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EU sues UK after plan to override deal on Northern Ireland

The European Commission launched two new legal proceedings against Britain on Wednesday after London published plans to override some post-Brexit rules governing Northern Irish trade, and resumed another challenge it had previously paused.

Reuters

Britain urges EU to change post-Brexit trade rules with N.Ireland

British foreign minister Liz Truss told the European Union's Maros Sefcovic on Monday the bloc must be willing to change post-Brexit rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, repeating that London wanted a "negotiated solution".

Reuters

Britain defies EU with 'relatively trivial' N.Ireland law

Britain published plans on Monday to override some post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland by scrapping checks and challenging the role played by the European Union's court in a new clash with Brussels.

The Independent UK

In Pictures: George and Charlotte in Cardiff while Anne goes to the races

Members of the royal family visited the nations on day three of the Jubilee celebrations.

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DUP expects new UK law on post-Brexit N. Ireland trade in early June

The British government plans to bring forward legislation in early June to unilaterally scrap some of the rules governing post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, the leader of the region's largest pro-British party said on Friday.

Al Jazeera

Northern Ireland set to vote in election poised to make history

Sinn Féin, a nationalist, pro-reunification party, is predicted to get the post of first minister for the first time.

Reuters

Fleeing Ukrainians find refuge in medieval Irish castle

When Irishman Barry Haughian and his Spanish wife Lola watched Ukrainians flee their homes but had no space to help in their house in Madrid, they decided to offer up their second home instead - a 15th century castle in the west of Ireland.

Reuters

Decision to discontinue 'Bloody Sunday' murder case quashed by Belfast court

Northern Ireland's High Court on Wednesday quashed prosecutors' decision to discontinue a murder case against the only British soldier charged over the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in 1972.

The Guardian - UK

Ireland 57-6 Italy: Six Nations – as it happened

Italy were reduced to 13 men after having their hooker sent off and losing another to injury – Ireland capitalised with a thumping win in Dublin

The Guardian - UK

Ireland 29-7 Wales: Six Nations – as it happened

Ireland kicked off the tournament with a dominant win over depleted Wales in Dublin.

Reuters

'Bloody Sunday' still scars Northern Ireland 50 years on

Five decades after British soldiers killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers on one of the defining days of the Northern Ireland conflict, relatives are still searching for the justice they believe is needed for a scarred society to heal.

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