Bank of Ireland accused of fraud in €14m lending case in Britain

Bank of Ireland has failed to secure a summary judgment in a High Court action against it in the UK, where the bank has been accused of engaging in fraud, through one of its senior employees, to lend millions of pounds to an investor to buy a raft of properties as the global financial crash was underway.

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US secretary of state Marco Rubio to join European allies to discuss Ukraine peace deal

US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, American president Donald Trump&s special envoy, will travel to Paris today for talks with European allies on US efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

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Israel plans to remain in Gaza even if peace deal negotiated, defence minister says

Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said yesterday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered.

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Trump ends foreign students' legal status
BOSTON — International students are rushing to ask US judges to block immigration officials from deporting them after President Donald Trump's administration began revoking the rights of thousands of student visa holders to remain in the United States.

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Nigerian mixed-faith families sense danger as violence flares
JOS (NIGERIA) - When the news came through of yet another massacre in the countryside in Nigeria's volatile Plateau state, local Christian Jamaima Haruna was terrified for her Muslim husband.

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Cambodia eyes more China help as Xi visits amid US tariff standoff
Cambodia is betting on more financial support from China, including for infrastructure, as President Xi Jinping visits the country on Thursday at the end of a three-nation trip in Southeast Asia, a Cambodian government spokesman said.

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