During the Irish famine in the 1840s, as more than one million Irish citizens died, vast quantities of food were exported from Ireland to Britain.

Britain's new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier has paid a port call to Japan, in a mission that adds to pressure from Tokyo, the United States (US) and allies on China over its increasingly assertive regional maritime presence.The Queen Elizabeth is the flagship of the United Kingdom's (UK) Carrier Strike Group (CSG) deployment, which has been making stops around Japan and carrying out exercises along with vessels from allied nations in recent weeks."This port call to Japan

A United States (US) doctor is urging people to stop taking the horse deworming drug Ivermectin to treat COVID-19.Patients have been needing urgent treatment at emergency units in Oklahoma hospitals after overdosing on the drug, Dr Jason McElyea says.Small doses of Ivermectin are approved for use on humans, but not for COVID."You've got to have a prescription for this medication for a reason - because it can be dangerous," Dr McElyea told the BBC.He said a "handful" o

United States (US) paediatric COVID hospitalisations have surged since Delta became predominant, but a new study that offers a first look at the relevant data suggests that fears the variant causes more severe disease are unfounded.The paper by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that between 20 June and 31 July, 2021, unvaccinated adolescents were more than 10 times more likely to be hospitalised than those who were vaccinated.The health agency analysed hospital r

United States (US) climate envoy John Kerry warned Thursday that Beijing's coal building spree could "undo" global capacity to meet environmental targets, after holding talks with top officials in China.Tensions between Beijing and Washington have soared in recent months with the two sides trading barbs on China's human rights record and its initial handling of the coronavirus.Tackling climate change is among a handful of issues where the two sides had struck notes of harm

President Joe Biden said Friday that China was withholding "critical information" on the origins of COVID-19 after the United States (US) intelligence community said it did not believe the virus was a bioweapon – but remained split on whether it escaped from a lab.The US, however, does not believe Chinese officials had foreknowledge of the virus before the initial outbreak of the pandemic that has now claimed 4.5 million lives, according to the unclassified summary of an eagerly awa

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its partner countries in the Asia-Pacific are increasingly concerned about the challenges that an assertive China could pose to global security. Based on the report ‘NATO 2030: United for a New Era’ dated November 2020, these challenges are multi-domain. A political strategy is there but so are the hurdles.

Milad went to Kabul's airport with his wife, three children and documents for a new life in the United States (US), but left with his hopes in ruins after witnessing a suicide bomber kill dozens around him.Twin attacks on Thursday claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group targeted US troops overseeing a frenzied evacuation effort at the airport as well as the masses of Afghans seeking to flee their own country.The explosions tore through a crowd at the perimeter of the airport, leaving som

Vice President Kamala Harris launched a new broadside against China as she ended her Southeast Asian tour in Hanoi Thursday, warning the United States (US) would continue to push back against Beijing's claims in disputed Asian waters.The comments came on the final day of a regional trip in which Washington has sought to reset relations in Asia after the turbulent Donald Trump years and stress its commitment to Southeast Asian allies.During the trip, Harris had already accused Beijing twi

Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday the United States (US) would find new ways to "raise the pressure on Beijing", accusing China of bullying in hotly disputed Asian waters for the second time in two days.Harris made the comments as she began a visit to Vietnam to stress US commitment to Asia, a trip that critics have slammed as tone-deaf given the parallels with the superpower's evacuations from Saigon and Kabul.During a meeting with Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc,