The Algeria World Cup squad have been granted special permission to eat and drink in daylight hours during Ramadan by the Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs.

SYRIA’S most senior Muslim cleric has told Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin Syria will not help cultural integration in Ireland with a school system segregated on the basis of religion.

Women and girls are still suffering severe abuse, harassment and repression at the hands of Afghanistan’s post-Taliban leaders, particularly in the west of the country, a human rights group said today.