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Prestigious literature prize reveals 13 nominees for 2023 competition

Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray have all made the 13-strong longlist for this year - meaning Ireland has produced the most nominees relative to population size.

In reality, the EU's Act in Support of Ammunition Production has little, if anything, to do with supporting Ukraine, and everything to do with guaranteeing the profit-driven interests of Europe's highly-lucrative arms industry.

Editor with the Paris-based publisher Gallimard Jeunesse who was determined to give British children’s books a presence in France

NATO’s European members are ramping up spending, but defense companies want contracts before committing to expensive expansions.

"We have to be prepared to build on that," Kaja Kallas told Newsweek in the Estonian capital regarding the artillery shell procurement project.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed financing from donors for projects to rebuild the country with a World Bank delegation visiting Kyiv.

South Africa’s government is taking legal advice on how to handle an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the event he attends a BRICS summit in August.

The public is invited to propose names for the Booker Prize trophy, designed by Jan Pieńkowski, then vote on a shortlist.

The EU should increase the European Defence Fund (EDF) to the €13 billion that was originally planned and be prepared to raise it further in the face of the grim reality of war in Ukraine, according to the EU defence industry. “€13 billion was something we saw as a minimum investment for the EDF in peacetime, but now we are looking at wartime,” said Jan Pie, secretary general of the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries association of Europe.