Over recent months the sprawling encampment outside of the International Protection Office has grown as the state struggled to find adequate accommodation for those entering Ireland as asylum seekers
Around 200 people are currently sleeping in tents on Mount Street, Grattan Street and nearby alleyways.
by Wm. Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box and then YOUR HEAD.) • City Council Formulates New Public Camping Rules For the Unhoused; Gonzalez’s Plan...
by Wm. Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box and then YOUR HEAD.) • Portland Will Pay Nearly $1.6 Million for Independent Monitor to Oversee City's...
A Moroccan asylum seeker has claimed stress made him 'lose his mind' moments before he stabbed a pensioner to death in the street.
Ahmed Alid, 45, is charged with murdering Terence Carney, 70, in Hartlepool town centre, minutes after repeatedly knifing his sleeping housemate Javed Nouri, 31, in his bed.
Khairi Saadallah shouted 'Allahu akhbar' as he fatally stabbed friends James Furlong, Dr David Wails and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and injured three others in a park in Reading in June 2020.
Shafaqna English-The UN Human Rights office on Wednesday called on governments to enhance “safe and regular” pathways for asylum seekers, according to Anadolu Agency. “We are deeply concerned that various other countries are considering ways of externalising their asylum and other human rights obligations and we have repeatedly stated that
Pointless elitism, or an urgent dress rehearsal for the climate crisis?
Those road projects are the topic of a special Baxter City Council meeting Thursday, April 25.
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your May reading list. Whether it’s first love or obsessive love or family love, May’s new releases have a lot to say about that which makes the world go ’round. However, if you’re disinclined to pick up a love story, there’s also a U.S. history-based memoir, a great beach read set on Cape Cod and the autobiography of a self-titled “feminist punk.” Happy reading! Shanghailanders: A Novel By Juli Min...
United Nations experts said airlines could be held responsible if human rights and international orders are violated.