The owners and staff at a Tunisian hotel where 30 British tourists were brutally killed by an Islamic extremist could have done nothing before the attack that would have done more than "possibly make a difference", a coroner said.

While Brexit is hogging the headlines, it is not the only threat to the stability of the business world, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Described by his neighbours as a handsome but frightening man, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed at least 84 people in the French city of Nice by driving his truck into a crowd late on Thursday, was convicted only once before: for road rage.

As French authorities question airport staff who had access to EgyptAir Flight 804, cleaning crews are among those drawing attention.

 

The US has bombed an Islamic State camp in Libya, in an effort to kill one of the masterminds behind last summer’s massacre of tourists on a Tunisian beach.

An explosion has struck a bus carrying members of Tunisia’s presidential guard, killing at least 12 people and wounding 16 others in what the interior ministry called a “terrorist act”.

An explosion has struck a bus carrying members of the presidential guard in the Tunisian capital, killing at least 11 people.

A Tunisian coalition of workers, employers, human rights activists, and lawyers have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Tunisia beach massacre is linked to a previous terror attack in the country, British police believe.

Authorities in Tunisia are quizzing seven suspected associates of gunman Seifeddine Rezgui, the 23-year-old student who shot dead 38 people on the beach in the resort of Sousse on Friday.

Eyewitnesses have claimed the Tunisian beach massacre may have been carried out by more than one attacker as authorities continue to quiz seven suspected associates of the gunman.

As the aftermath of the Tunisia beach massacre unravels, more is being learned about the “warped” gunman.

Relatives of the three Irish people killed in last week’s terrorist attack in Tunisia face an agonising wait to bring their bodies home as the task of formal identification continues.

Multiple arrests have been made in Tunisia following the attack that killed 38 people at a beach resort.

Those who knew the gunman killed by police after slaughtering 39 people in Tunisia have spoken of their shock at his murderous actions.

Thousands of Irish and British tourists have decided to leave Tunisia following Friday’s massacre, in which 38 people, including three Irish citizens, lost their lives.

Interpol has said it will offer its full support to French, Tunisian, Kuwaiti, and Somalian authorities following four separate terrorist attacks yesterday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs had warned Irish tourists about the possibility of indiscriminate terrorist attacks in Tunisian cities, and on places visited by foreigners such as hotels and shopping centres.

An Irish woman is among 28 holiday makers to have been murdered in a terrorist attack at a Tunisian resort today, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has confirmed.

Tunisia’s prime minister said yesterday a leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, as tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital to denounce extremist violence.

Tunisian authorities have arrested more than 20 suspected militants in a nationwide security crackdown since gunmen killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Wednesday’s attack in the capital.

Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia’s national museum yesterday, killing 18 foreign tourists and two Tunisians in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that has largely escaped the region’s Arab Spring turmoil.

The United States has suspended operations at its embassy in Libya and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli, the State Department said.

With beautiful beaches, a sunny climate and cheap prices, Tunisia is winning tourists back.

A 28-year-old Tunisian reportedly linked to the attack on the US consulate in Libya in which the American ambassador was killed has been arrested, the Tunisian government confirmed today.

President Barack Obama has challenged the international community to confront the causes of Middle East turmoil, saying the world faces “a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common.”

President Barack Obama is asking the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across Islam, calling it a defining choice “between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common.”

The US State Department today ordered the departure of all family members and non-essential US government personnel from its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia and warned US citizens against any travel to the two countries due to security concerns over rising anti-American violence.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

Tunisia will extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi - currently being held in Tunis – back to Libya, officials said today.

The head of a private Tunisian TV station has been fined for allegedly disrupting public order by screening an animated film that some religious groups claim violates Islamic principles.

Ireland appealed against any effort to arm opposition forces in Syria but supported an EU decision to extend sanctions against the regime.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague today called for more sanctions against Syria in the wake of continuing “appalling” violence.

Britain is to recognise the Syrian opposition as a “legitimate representative” of the country’s people, William Hague said today.

As tensions mounted further in Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby last night appointed Kofi Annan, Ban's predecessor as joint special envoy on the Syrian crisis.

Diplomatic roadblocks, a complex social make-up, and a densely distributed population combine to render the Syrian uprising more complex than that of Libya, writes Alastair Macdonald

Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate today as government forces resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in the city.

Syrian forces murdered journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill “any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil”, it emerged last night.

Libya’s de facto leader said today he is optimistic the former rebels will declare total victory over forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in less than a week, opening the way for a transitional government to be formed within a month.

Tunisian police have arrested dozens of Islamist demonstrators set on attacking the offices of a television channel that had shown the award-winning film 'Persepolis', officials said.