Conor Humphries
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Northern Ireland court finds soldier not guilty of murder over 'Bloody Sunday' killings
Court falls silent as verdict read
Judge says those responsible should hang heads in shame
Chances of any prosecution seen as remote
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Court falls silent as verdict read
Judge says those responsible should hang heads in shame
Chances of any prosecution seen as remote
@reuters @AmandaFBelfast
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October 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Northern Ireland court finds soldier not guilty of murder over 'Bloody Sunday' killings
Court falls silent as verdict read
Judge says those responsible should hang heads in shame
Chances of any prosecution seen as remote
@reuters @AmandaFBelfast
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Court falls silent as verdict read
Judge says those responsible should hang heads in shame
Chances of any prosecution seen as remote
@reuters @AmandaFBelfast
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Court strikes down Irish police decision not to investigate Airbnb over Israeli settlements @reuters @sadakaIreland www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Court strikes down Irish police decision not to investigate Airbnb over Israeli settlements @reuters @sadakaIreland www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a @Reuters investigation has found.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a @Reuters investigation has found.
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Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls reut.rs/4mWnFis
Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls
The efforts to reduce labour costs show the strain on Russia's economy as President Vladimir Putin and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance square off in Ukraine.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls reut.rs/4mWnFis
Right-wing activists divide Dublin with lamp-post flag blitz @reuters
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October 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Right-wing activists divide Dublin with lamp-post flag blitz @reuters
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Two Hamas sources tell @Reuters that group's ceasefire negotiation delegation in Doha survived Israeli attack
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Two Hamas sources tell @Reuters that group's ceasefire negotiation delegation in Doha survived Israeli attack
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The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.
Luxembourg approves latest Israeli bond prospectus
The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.
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Sobering to see names of all the media workers killed in Gaza
Look at them all
September 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Sobering to see names of all the media workers killed in Gaza
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An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
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Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.
#NotATarget
Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law @reuters.com @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law
President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law @reuters.com @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
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Files suggest that by July this year, 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – equivalent to approximately 200m hours of audio – was held in Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands, while a smaller proportion was stored in Ireland. @theguardian.com
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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August 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Files suggest that by July this year, 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – equivalent to approximately 200m hours of audio – was held in Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands, while a smaller proportion was stored in Ireland. @theguardian.com
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Trump tells US pharma companies they must “return excess overseas revenue to American patients and taxpayers”, warning he will "deploy every tool in our arsenal" to end abusive drug pricing practices.
Irish taxpayers should probably be getting nervous
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Irish taxpayers should probably be getting nervous
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Trump pressures 17 pharma CEOs to cut US drug prices
U.S. President Donald Trump sent letters to the chief executives of 17 major pharmaceutical companies, urging immediate action to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans, the White House said on Thursday.
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July 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump tells US pharma companies they must “return excess overseas revenue to American patients and taxpayers”, warning he will "deploy every tool in our arsenal" to end abusive drug pricing practices.
Irish taxpayers should probably be getting nervous
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Irish taxpayers should probably be getting nervous
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Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia, people familiar with the command told Reuters reut.rs/45mrXK8
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
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July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia, people familiar with the command told Reuters reut.rs/45mrXK8
Irish Times front page runs letter from French news agency @AFP warning that its journalists in Gaza face threat of starvation
July 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Irish Times front page runs letter from French news agency @AFP warning that its journalists in Gaza face threat of starvation
Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of anti-immigrant violence reut.rs/3SJ4ZGe
Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of anti-immigrant violence
Michael Sancio, a resident of the Northern Irish town of Ballymena, said he was woken at midnight on Tuesday by masked men banging loudly on windows.
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June 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of anti-immigrant violence reut.rs/3SJ4ZGe
Northern Ireland leisure centre hosting immigrants attacked on third night of violence www.reuters.com/world/uk/dis...
Northern Ireland hit by third night of violence but main flashpoint calmer
Violence erupted in different parts of Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday, with masked youths starting a fire in a leisure centre but unrest in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena was notably smaller in scale.
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June 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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PSNI pushing crowd back quite easily so far in Ballymena on third night of trouble. A handful of rocks thrown over last 20 minutes
June 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
PSNI pushing crowd back quite easily so far in Ballymena on third night of trouble. A handful of rocks thrown over last 20 minutes
Photo essay on cutting, and restoring, Ireland’s bogs by Clodagh Kilcoyne @pictures.reuters.com
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June 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Photo essay on cutting, and restoring, Ireland’s bogs by Clodagh Kilcoyne @pictures.reuters.com
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.@crispiandjb.bsky.social on the new high-stakes transatlantic special relationship: Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni
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Trump whisperer? Italy's Meloni navigates a high-stakes relationship
He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni are fast forging a new transatlantic "special relationship".
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January 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
.@crispiandjb.bsky.social on the new high-stakes transatlantic special relationship: Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni
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What if a war happened all in your head – or at least partially?
… welcome to the era of Cognitive Algorithmic Warfare scsp222.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
… welcome to the era of Cognitive Algorithmic Warfare scsp222.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
Algorithmic Cognitive Warfare: The Next Frontier in China’s Quest for Global Influence
Hello, I’m Ylli Bajraktari, CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project.
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November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
What if a war happened all in your head – or at least partially?
… welcome to the era of Cognitive Algorithmic Warfare scsp222.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
… welcome to the era of Cognitive Algorithmic Warfare scsp222.substack.com/p/algorithmi...
Interesting line on the inflation economy of last two years: low earners taking *all* the pain. Middle/upper earners, not much at all.
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November 20, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Interesting line on the inflation economy of last two years: low earners taking *all* the pain. Middle/upper earners, not much at all.
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Trump confirms Howard Lutnick as his pick for Commerce Secretary.
Mr Lutnick's thoughts on Ireland: "It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense... When we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again. You’ll be shocked!” (Oct 2024)
Mr Lutnick's thoughts on Ireland: "It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense... When we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again. You’ll be shocked!” (Oct 2024)
November 19, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Trump confirms Howard Lutnick as his pick for Commerce Secretary.
Mr Lutnick's thoughts on Ireland: "It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense... When we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again. You’ll be shocked!” (Oct 2024)
Mr Lutnick's thoughts on Ireland: "It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense... When we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again. You’ll be shocked!” (Oct 2024)