Newry Sinn Fein Councillor has been suspended from his position for two months after pleading guilty to being in charge of a vehicle with excess alcohol. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...

Cathal King referred himself to the Northern Ireland Local Government Commissioner for Standards. A Sinn Féin councillor has been suspended for two months by a standards watchdog for being drunk ...

A Sinn Féin councillor has been suspended for two months by a standards watchdog for being drunk in charge of a car. Cathal King, who sits on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s cabinet has voted to sack the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency in a move set to ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously in the early hours of Friday morning to dismiss Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, the premier’s office announced. Bar’s final day will ...

The proposal to dismiss Ronen Bar, the head of Shin Bet and with whom Netanyahu has often clashed since the start of Israel’s multi-front conflict in October 2023, was approved unanimously in a ...

It didn’t take long for the Taoiseach’s Oval Office balancing act to go pear-shaped. The bar was set low before he left. The measure of success, it seemed, was survival. Just getting through ...

By Isabel Kershner Reporting from Jerusalem The Israeli government around midnight on Thursday approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel’s ouster of the head of the Shin Bet domestic ...

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Netanyahu dropped the bombshell on Sunday: Ronen Bar, the head of one of Israel’s internal intelligence agencies, Shin Bet, would have to go.The reason, he said, was his “ongoing distrust ...

The Shin Bet, which is responsible for monitoring Palestinian militant groups, recently released a report acknowledging its failures in the attack while also criticising Mr Netanyahu, stating that ...