Irish Times

There was further unrest and violence in Belfast on Thursday night as nationalist and loyalist youths clashed at interfaces in the west of the city.

As The Irish Times report, police resorted to using water cannons to try to bring the situation under control.

Last week we reported that the Greek government is enacting emergency measures to end flight delays in the country. But Greece is not the only state battling with this issue. More and more European countries seem to believe that government intervention is required as a solution to frequent flight delays. Bulgaria now joins the list.

Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist treating victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State in Iraq, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, reports the Irish Times.

The Oxford historian Roy Foster suggested I should write a book about my life here, saying, "Greece is a country I love and mourn." So "love and mourn" became the theme of my book.

The presidency of the European Union moved from the Baltic to the Black Sea on Monday, as Bulgaria took over from Estonia for a six-month stint that is likely to be dominated by Brexit wrangles and growing strain inside the 28-member bloc.

Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadar warned that Northern Ireland is about to go under the direct command of Britain, The Irish Times writes.

Belgrade among 10 "must-see" destinations

DUBLIN -- Belgrade is one of the ten holiday spots to visit in 2015 recommended by the Irish Times, Tanjug has reported.

"Belgrade has reaffirmed itself as the major Balkan metropolis," Irish Times Travel reporter Fionn Davenport writes.

He noted the city's "Kalemegdan Citadel and its beauty that spreads outward."

Struggling Greece will never recover without a generous debt cut, despite what the country's creditors might think, the politician likely to become the next finance minister said Tuesday.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has seized on comments by Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan as evidence that not just ?progressive economists and the European Left? are coming round to his party?s argument that the European Union needs to hold a meeting to discuss how to reduce the debt of some of its members, including Greece.