Two-thirds of retail executives feel SuperValu is doing more than any other supermarket in supporting Irish producers.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have today reached an agreement on a framework for securing Syria’s chemical weapons after the third day of intense negotiations in Geneva.

The monthly average of armed clashes, roadside bombings and other violence in Afghanistan is running 39% ahead of last year’s figure, the United Nations reported, with more complex suicide operations involving multiple bombers and gunmen.

The monthly average of armed clashes, roadside bombings and other violence in Afghanistan is running 39% ahead of last year’s figure, the UN has reported, with more complex suicide operations involving multiple bombers and gunmen.

The Taliban attacked the US Embassy, Nato headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Kabul today while suicide bombers struck police buildings.

AT LEAST five suicide bombers attacked a major hotel frequented by Westerners in Afghanistan’s capital, a senior police officer said, with fighting continuing as police cleared the building.

Post-mortem tests have found that a cousin of rock star Bruce Springsteen died from an accidental drug overdose.

Ehud Olmert will today become the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian city since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago.

Five US soldiers were killed and seven injured when their helicopter crashed near the American military headquarters north of the Afghan capital.

Hundreds of protesters called for the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei as thousands of onlookers watched early today, the third day of demonstrations in Tehran despite threats by the hard-line regime to crack down to end the disturbances.

A British bodyguard killed two Afghan men in a shootout in the capital Kabul tonight.

Sacha Baron-Cohen - the man behind Ali G - has survived a stray bullet in Israel after two guests in an adjoining hotel room killed themselves.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe abruptly cancelled his appearance at a hotel today and was rushed to a military base by helicopter amid reports that rebels planned to assassinate him.

International peacekeepers were today investigating an incident in which a German armoured vehicle fired on the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital.

Taliban military forces appeared to have deserted the capital of Kabul at dawn today after a series of stunning military victories by opposition forces over the past four days, witnesses said.

US warplanes resumed bombing early today on several Taliban positions in an effort to clear the way for advances by forces opposed to Afghanistan’s ruling movement.