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Belfast riots trigger crisis talks amid anger at Boris Johnson's Brexit deal Mirror 7 hrs ago © REUTERS Irish nationalists are seen at the Northern Ireland's leaders are holding crisis talks after violence flared in Belfast amid mounting anger at Boris Johnson's Brexit deal. The Stormont meeting follows several nights of unrest in loyalist communities amid tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol and the PSNI's handling of alleged coronavirus regulation breaches by Sinn Fein at the funeral of IRA terrorist Bobby Storey. The Prime Minister condemned violence after a bus was hijacked...

Thursday briefing: ‘No justification’ for Northern Ireland violence Alison Rourke Top story: ‘An embarrassment,’ says Arlene Foster © Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Fire fed by petrol burns as youths clashed at the Peace Gate at the Springfield Road/Lanark Way interface in Belfast. Hello and welcome to this Thursday briefing, with me, Alison Rourke. The Northern Ireland executive will meet this morning to discuss the ongoing violence after a bus was hijacked and set on fire in the sixth consecutive night of unrest. Twitter appeared to show the bus being ...

The country operates around sixty-six F-16A/Bs and nineteen F-16C/Ds in four active squadrons. Here's What You Need to Know: The F-16 remains a superior platform in many respects. During an aerial skirmish on February 27, 2019, an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison was shot down by a radar-guided missile. The Pakistani Air Force (PAF) claims the kill was scored by a JF-17 Thunder, a domestically-built fighter built with Chinese assistance. However, India subsequently revealed fragments of an AIM-120C-5 missile—a U.S.-built weapon only compatible with the American-built F-16s in PAF service. Pa...

Updated / Monday, 15 Mar 2021 14:00 In April 1983, The Chieftains were guests at an official banquet held in their honour at Peace Gate restaurant in Beijing. After a pleasant dinner and a series of formal speeches, all the Chinese guests in attendance suddenly stood up and left the room. As Paddy Moloney explains in The Chieftains: An Authorised Biography: "We thought we had done something wrong." But what had really taken place was an extreme form of etiquette. When the Chinese Minister for Culture had left, everyone else followed. This was just one of the formalities the band had to cont...