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Three women have been questioned by police over allegations of human trafficking and facilitating rape as part of an investigation into former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed. The Metropolitan Police said a total of 154 people have come forward so far to report allegations of rape, sexual assault, sexual exploitation and human trafficking as part […]

The U.S. Justice Department released FBI records on Thursday that summarise interviews of an unidentified woman in which she made accusations against President Donald Trump related to an alleged sexual encounter. FBI agents interviewed the woman four times in 2019 as part of their investigation into accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The US justice department […]

Oxfam has indicated that it is responding to the “immediate needs” of people who have been forcibly displaced by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion of Lebanon. Oxfam in Lebanon is scaling up its emergency response by supporting thousands of people across shelters in Mount Lebanon, the South, and the Bekaa, providing bedding kits, hygiene kits, […]

Intense Israeli airstrikes pounded the capitals of Iran and Lebanon early on Friday with the US apparently striking an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships. Iran launched new retaliatory attacks in the Middle East at the end of a full week of bombardment, which US defence […]

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has repeatedly refused to say if she believes Israeli and American air strikes on Iran broke international law. Speaking to the media in Dublin on Thursday afternoon, Helen McEntee was asked several times if actions by the two countries were outside international law. She referred repeatedly to the lack of […]

A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka’s navy said on Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people. The Iranian vessel that was sunk in the Indian Ocean was the Islamic Republic’s “prize ship”, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Pentagon news briefing. […]

Cuba has filed terrorism charges against six suspects it claims were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that is alleged to have opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island’s north coast. The Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that the suspects, of Cuban origin, remain in pretrial detention, adding that it will ensure “due process” […]

Defence secretary Pete Hegseth says a torpedo from a US submarine sank an Iranian warship. In a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Mr Hegseth said that the Tuesday night strike on an Iranian warship was the first such attack on an enemy since the Second World War. “An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought […]