Padraig Belton Technology Reporter Mater The Mater hospital in Dublin – home to Ireland’s busiest emergency department For a country famous as Big Tech’s European address, Ireland’s hospitals often lag far behind in technology. They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics. In July 2024, a […]
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Getty Images The US-UK trade deal warmly suggested by President Donald Trump should help insulate the UK from the direct impact of global trade tensions. It signals that the White House has accepted the statistical logic that the US and UK have a balanced trade position. Essentially each country roughly exports the same amount of
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Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hundreds of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) staff have been laid off in the latest development in the Trump’s administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce. Around 880 workers – including weather forecasters – have had their jobs terminated on Thursday, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reported.
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WASHINGTON – President Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday to discuss a mineral deal and the war with Russia. Trump and Zelenskyy are expected to sign an economic deal that would give the U.S. a share of profits from Ukraine’s minerals as repayment for the
Getty Images Gene and Betsy (file image from 1991) US investigators are trying to establish how Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, died after the discovery of their bodies at their home in the US state of New Mexico. Here is what we know so far about the death of
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Mike Wendling and Kayla Epstein BBC News Watch: Andrew Tate and brother, Tristan, arrive in US Andrew and Tristan Tate, the controversial British-American social media influencers accused of rape, human trafficking and money laundering, have been freed from travel restrictions in Romania after several high-level White House officials took an interest in their case. It’s
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Sam Francis and Becky Morton Political reporters Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News Reporting fromWhite House Reuters UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has met US President Donald Trump during his first visit to the White House. Here are some of the key moments as the pair took questions from reporters before and after the talks.
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Paul Glynn Culture reporter Getty Images Hackman, pictured in Clint Eastwood’s Western Unforgiven, was found dead at his home in New Mexico Gene Hackman’s daughters and granddaughter say they are “devastated” and will “miss him sorely”, as they led tributes to the movie star who has died aged 95. Hackman was found dead along with
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Nick Thorpe, Mircea Barbu & Paul Kirby In Bucharest & London EPA Andrew Tate, in the foreground, is a former kickboxer who has described himself a misogynist British-American influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate – who are facing trial in Romania on rape and trafficking charges – have arrived in the US after Romanian prosecutors lifted
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Getty Images Donald Trump said he planned to hit goods from China with another 10% rise in tariffs, the latest salvo in the US president’s steadily escalating trade fights. Imports from China already face tariffs of at least 10%, after a Trump order that went into effect earlier this month. Trump also said he intended
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