BBC

Mayor of London to use historical coat of arms

The mayor of London has been granted permission to use the coat of arms that once belonged to the Greater London Council (GLC). The King issued the warrant to the Greater London Authority (GLA) last ...
BBC

Irish battalion safe after coming under fire in south Lebanon

All members of an Irish Defence Forces battalion "are well and accounted for" after they came under "small arms fire" in south Lebanon. The incident happened at about 18:30 Ireland time (20:30 Lebanon ...
The Irish Times

Irish UN peacekeepers come under ‘small arms fire’ in south Lebanon

Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon escaped injury when they came under small arms fire from militants on Thursday. The incident occurred at around 6pm near the village of Bint Jbeil in the Irish area of ...
BBC

Irish battalion safe after coming under fire in south Lebanon

The battalion is part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) in the south of Lebanon All members of an Irish Defence Forces battalion "are well and accounted for" after they came ...
The Irish Times

Ukrainian arms behemoth crumbles as drone makers rise to wartime challenge

“I put my whole life into it,” Viktor Yarovoi (78) says of the Southern Machine Building Factory in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, where he has worked for more than 50 years. “But now so much has been ...
IanVisits

The King grants the Mayor of London permission to use the GLC’s historic coat of arms

The King has commanded that the Greater London Authority (GLA) shall be allowed to use the coat of arms that once belonged to its predecessor, the GLC. The coat of arms, once a familiar sight in ...