NIGERIA’S two main oil unions threatened to shut output in Africa’s top crude producer as a national strike entered its fourth day, mounting pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to restore fuel subsidies.

Croatian police have issued an international arrest warrant for the country’s former prime minister, who left the country amid suspicion of corruption just before parliament lifted his immunity from prosecution.

IRISH engineering services and project management company PM Group shrugged off the effects of the economic crisis last year by posting a 5.5% rise in turnover and a marginal increase in annual pre-tax profits to €8.17 million, up from €7.9m in the previous year.

ISRAELI police raided the Ministry of Industry and Trade yesterday, seizing documents in a widening corruption investigation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Security forces arrested Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her home in capital Dhaka today, in a massive operation involving more than 1,000 police and troops.

IRISH company Project Management Group (PM) has been awarded the contract to construct a €75m expansion for Genzyme Flanders, a subsidiary of US biotechnology giant Genzyme, at Geel in Belgium.

An Irish design company has won a contract to design and manage the building of an extension for a US biotechnology firm.

THE designers involved in creating the masterplan for the redevelopment of Croke Park have now been charged with helping the FAI and IRFU realise the dream of a new Lansdowne Road.

Congress party law makers said they re-elected Sonia Gandhi as their leader today in a crucial step toward her being named India’s first foreign-born prime minister.