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AFP - The head of Ireland’s Central Bank said Thursday the country could receive a “very substantial loan” that could run into “tens of billions” of euros as part of…

AFP - Ireland’s decision to frontload a four-year 15-billion-euro (20.8-billion-dollar) deficit correction in next month’s budget was endorsed Monday by EU economic commissioner Olli Rehn.

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AP - Shares in Ireland’s banks hit record lows and national borrowing costs reached new euro-era highs Monday as the government presented its latest plans for financial survival to the…

AP - Europe’s debt crisis dumped more woe on Ireland’s weary taxpayers Thursday, as the government said it needed to pour billions more of their money into a collapsed banking…

AP - Britain has raised its terror alert, saying the threat of violence from Irish dissidents has risen to a point where an attack is “a strong possibility.”

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AP - Ireland sold euro1.5 billion ($2 billion) in government bonds Tuesday in a closely watched test of whether international investors would keep buying Irish treasuries despite the country’s deficit,…

Time.com - A visit to the Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza shows a humanitarian crisis as well as an economy that manages to tick on despite the Israeli-Egyptian blockade

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AP - Ireland reopened its western airports Friday but warned that a 1,000-mile-long (1,600-kilometer-long) cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland was still lurking offshore.

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AP - Iceland’s volcano has produced a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600 kilometer-wide) ash cloud off the west coast of Ireland that will force western Irish airports to shut down again Friday, the…

AP - Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority says it must close the airspace of Scotland and Northern Ireland at 7 a.m. (0600GMT) Wednesday because of dangerous levels of volcanic ash inbound…