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Ziad Khawla, 25, is accused of attacking the youth following a chance encounter close to the city centre. The Palestinian-born defendant appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court for a preliminary enquiry into the strength of the prosecution case. He is charged with rape and two counts of sexual assault over the incident on March 2 last year. It was previously disclosed that the teenager phoned police to claim he had just been attacked by a stranger who approached him near the Waterfront Hall. The man was reported to have offered him a cigarette before they then walked a short distance to...

A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle Espie in Northern Ireland during filming for a TV show. The zombie-spider fungus (Gibellula attenboroughii) infects spiders while they're still alive. (Image credit: Tim Fogg) Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mind-controlling fungus that creates spider "zombies" after it was stumbled upon in a Victorian gunpowder store on the grounds of a destroyed Irish castle. The fluffy white fungus, similar to the zombie-ant fungus that inspired the "The Last of Us" video game and TV series, likely uses chemical signals...

A Northern Ireland MP is set to issue legal proceedings against controversial online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, over social media posts. KRW Law said the posts were made on Friday, the day after Sorcha Eastwood of the Alliance Party said she was a "survivor of abuse" in the House of Commons. During a debate on violence against women and girls, Eastwood said she was once approached by a member of the public who told her that he wanted to rape her. Her solicitors confirmed that they had been instructed to issue legal proceedings and that correspondence with...

After fifty years of leftist dominance and indoctrination in the schools, this really doesn’t come as a surprise, but it’s a good indication of where we are as a culture: it is now more socially acceptable and easier overall for students to declare that they are homosexual than it is for them to reveal that they’re Christian. This news comes from Northern Ireland, but it doesn’t take more than a nanosecond or two of observation to realize that this is by no means a Northern Irish problem: the results would be the same all over the Western world, including, or...

Talk about gas-lighting. Keir Starmer has basically gone over to Northern Ireland and told them that they're racists. Yes he's told the Protestants and the Catholics, who have joined together over there in the face of a greater threat, that they're racists because they've appreciated that threat. Link to transcript below video.

Sectarian violence was rekindled in Northern Ireland on Saturday night as police were attacked with petrol bombs following a pro-unionist demonstration that took place in the city. At least 10 police officers were injured in Londonderry on Saturday evening after they came under assault by a reported group of Irish nationalist youths during “several hours of disorder” on Nailors Row.

A judge has warned that anybody present at a riot will be remanded in custody, even if they were only a “curious observer”. District Judge Francis Rafferty said that someone’s presence at a riot made them involved in the riot as he refused two bail applications. The judge spoke as four men appeared in Belfast magistrates’ court charged in relation to disorder in the city. Cameron Armstrong, 18, from Belfast, was charged with rioting in the Connswater area of east Belfast, which saw “violent disorder, petrol bombs, fireworks and different projectiles thrown at police and extensive damage caused to property”,...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad. During a visit Sunday to Edinburgh, that he billed as an “immediate reset” with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would also seek to improve the U.K.'s “botched” trade deal with the European Union. “I do think that we can get a much better deal than the botched deal that (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson saddled the U.K. with,” he said in reference to the pact negotiated after Brexit. […] Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Sunday on Sky News that...

In Northern Ireland late tonight the British Nationalist Democratic Unionist Party agreeing to allow a devolved government with the Leftist Sinn Fein Party playing a leading role... Hamas is giving the thumbs down to any hostage deal with Israel... US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he sees evidence of the battlefield in Ukraine of a lack of US assistance,,, The Royal Navy's UK Maritime Trade Operations reports the approach of suspicious vessels by a merchant ship off the west coast of Yemen... In South Africa the ruling African National Congress party suspending Jacob Zuma the former president of the...

Several trees in Northern Ireland made famous by the TV series Game Of Thrones have been damaged and felled by Storm Isha. Work is currently being carried out to clear up the Dark Hedges site in County Antrim. The tunnel of trees became famous when it was featured in the HBO fantasy series and now attracts significant numbers of tourists from around the world. Storm Isha battered the country on Sunday night, with strong winds leaving thousands of properties without power and causing travel disruption. […] Concerns have been raised about the state of several of the ancient beech trees...

Police are treating 'Irish lives matter' graffiti which has appeared in west Belfast as a 'hate incident' The graffiti appeared after signage saying the community "will no longer accept the re-housing of illegal immigrants" was erected in the Suffolk area on Tuesday. The West Belfast MLA Gerry Carroll said there was no place for this "racist poison". While Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey described it as an "attempt to create fear and intimidate people". Inspector Andrew Matson said: “We are treating the matter as a hate incident. “Our local Neighbourhood Policing Team have been undertaking enquiries in the area and...

Wanna get away? With federal and congressional investigations hanging over his head, first son Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen escaped Los Angeles by spending the weekend at a $50 million vineyard owned by medical device company executive Joe Kiani — a major donor to Democrats and Biden. Hunter, Melissa and their Secret Service protectors arrived at Kiani Preserve, about three hours north of LA in the heart of Santa Barbara wine country, in a four-car motorcade Friday evening — one week after the 53-year-old returned to the US from accompanying his father and aunt on a state visit...

Tiernán Heffron said, ‘No musician should EVER have to deal with something traumatic like this happening’The PSNI has said a woman who threw a pint glass at a musician as he performed in a Belfast city centre bar has been issued with a community resolution notice. Tiernán Heffron shared a post on Facebook explaining that as he was setting up for a gig in a bar on Friday night someone threw a pint glass at his face. A guitar he purchased thanks to a “kind gift” given to him by Taylor Swift was also destroyed during the alleged attack. He...

A security scare shadowed President Biden’s trip to Northern Island on Wednesday after a top-secret document containing the itinerary for his visit to Belfast and information about his protective detail was found in the street. A passerby discovered the police paper, which detailed where the president was staying in Northern Ireland as well as the phone numbers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland officers in his security detail, BBC Radio Ulster reported.

BELFAST — President Joe Biden arrives in Northern Ireland on Tuesday to salute the 25th anniversary of its U.S.-brokered peace accord. But it will be a hollow celebration. Power-sharing between British unionists and Irish nationalists, the central vision of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, is failing. Northern Ireland has for nearly a year had no elected government at Stormont, the grand parliament building overlooking Belfast

MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic counterintelligence and security agency, has raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland from “substantial” to “severe,” meaning an attack is highly likely. The decision, announced by UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris on Tuesday, comes days before a possible visit to the country by President Biden. Biden’s visit would coincide with the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, also known as the Belfast Agreement, which brought an end to decades of sectarian violence between Irish republicans and unionists. Heaton-Harris told CNN that the move was made after an uptick in “activity...

The death of a 25-year-old man “has left the community in Antrim and beyond stunned and lost for words,” the Venerable Dr Stephen McBride from the Parish of All-Saints in Antrim has said.Jack McKitterick, 25, from Antrim died on March 16 in hospital after suffering a Brain aneurysm. Rev McBride from the Parish of All-Saints in Antrim said as the death happened “around mother’s day there is a heightened sense of grief”. "It is against the natural order for a mum and dad to be burying a child no matter what age that child is,” he added. "It is an...

Pakistan's Prime Minister saying his country is bowing to global bankers... In El Salvador today two thousand inmates suspected of gang activity moved into a super prison... Tonight, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announcing the downgrading of diplomatic relations with Mexico... Intense talks between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Northern Ireland's political leaders... In France the High Authority for Health recommending vaccination campaigns for COVID-19 booster jabs and flu shots... The World Health Organization expressing concern about birth flu spreading among humans... At least 10 killed and 23 injured in a bus crash in Algeria... Russian President Vladimir Putin on...

-This claim misrepresents data from the Yellow Card reporting system for suspected adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines -A Yellow Card report about a fatal outcome is NOT the same as a death where vaccines have been confirmed as a factor -However, a closer look at official figures reveals how confusing and incomplete publicly-available information can be On 10 January, DUP MLA Paul Frew tweeted: “[We] know, according to MHRA that 47 people in NI died from vaccine injury up to 29th sept 22 this may be under reported as suggested by MHRA” Mr Frew based his claim on information that...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said mistakes were made on all sides in the handling of Brexit, but vowed to be “flexible and reasonable” when attempting to solve issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol. He conceded that the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol is “too strict” and said he understands unionist concerns that the treaty has made them feel less British. Mr. Varadkar, who became Taoiseach for a second time in December, has become deeply unpopular within some sections of unionism and loyalism who claim he was an instrumental figure in the creation of the contentious protocol. His name and image have...