Despite warnings about an impending attack, the Canadian government failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the Air India bombing off the coast of Ireland in 1985, writes Eddie Cassidy.

The two men charged in the deadliest terrorist attack on a commercial airliner prior to September 11 will learn their fate in a Canadian courtroom tomorrow as a judge delivers his verdict in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people.

The Kurdish rebel group PKK and Peru’s Shining Path were among 18 people and groups added to the EU’s terrorist list, which was made public today.