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Morning View

Editorial: Shock to Europe has led to belated new defence plan

Former Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster, now Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee.

Baroness Foster: 'Courageous' President Zelensky will have to give up land

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and US president Donald Trump clashed in the Oval Office a couple of weeks ago. But the USA and president Trump could still surprise us and welcome Ukraine back into its security fold

Steve Aiken: We have to support Ukraine and move to defend ourselves

Morning View

Editorial: Assistance for Ukraine should never have been stopped

The scale of destruction is laid bare at apartment blocks in Yarmouk camp outside Damascus, Syria, reduced to rubble following an airstrike

Letter: Aggression is rewarded with relative silence

On February 25, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, announced that the UK would raise its defence spending to 2.6% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2027

Letter: It's long past time that the UK put itself first

An NLAW (Next Generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon) made by Thales in Belfast. The company will supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine

Order for 5,000 missiles for Ukraine hugely significant for Belfast – Robinson

A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter equipped with the Martlet missile system

NI factory to make 5,000 air defence missiles for Ukraine in UK’s £1.6bn deal

Morning View

Editorial: A deservedly warm British reception for President Zelensky

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron hold a meeting during a Leaders' Summit on the situation in Ukraine at Lancaster House, London. Photo: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

Belfast joins defence of Ukraine with deal to build 5,000 missiles

French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a European leaders' summit today on the situation in Ukraine at Lancaster House, London

Starmer tells leaders step up at ‘once in a generation moment’ at Ukraine summit

President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday where he told Mr Zelensky he is “gambling with World War Three”. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ben Lowry: More wildly erratic behaviour from the US president, Donald Trump

Screen grab of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday February 26, 2025.

Russia claims UK and France are ‘heating up’ Ukraine war

Donald Trump was elected, as president, to act in the best interests of the United States of America

Letter: UK should follow Trump’s lead on Ukraine

Ukraine has certainly deprived Russia of a full victory by preventing the whole country being taken over and especially by making the Russians pay such a high price for the territory they have so far

Letter: Set Russians an example by respecting NI border

File photo dated 29/02/24 of Sir John Major delivering the keynote speech at the 2024 Global Soft Power Summit at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Sir John Major warns of ‘dangerous world’ if US does not stand behind allies
A world in which the United States does not support its allies will be "rather more dangerous", former prime minister Sir John Major warned.
By David Hughes, PA Political Editor

Ireland's deputy premier Simon Harris has said Ukraine must determine the terms and conditions for a "just and lasting" peace

Irish deputy premier Simon Harris says Ukraine must decide conditions for peace

The cost to the Ministry of Defence of surveillance operations to protect undersea cables serving the British Isles - and what proportion the Irish government had contributed - was queried.

Letter: Who’s paying to protect cables in Irish waters?

Fuel prices at the end of November were cheapest in Northern Ireland

Christmas fuel prices lowest since pandemic

A protestor is detained outside the Hong Kong Group of 47 sentencing earlier this month. Dozens of the leaders of the pro-democracy movement were sentenced for alleged subversion. China is continuing its crackdown on the democracy movement in Hong Kong, without much opposition or protest from the outside world

John Cushnahan: Peril of nuclear war if world turns its back on Hong Kong

Sanctions against Russia have made no significant difference to the outcome of the conflict as the war machine continues to advance. Meanwhile, the people of Ukraine continue to suffer devastating causalities

Letter: Unionists should rethink their position on Russia

Last week, the average price of oil in the province was a mere £278 for 500 ltrs and £487 for 900 ltrs, according to the NI Consumer Council

Home heating oil prices have fallen to post-Ukraine war lows, and stayed down

Donald Trump said that he would have had the war in Ukraine resolved immediately, though he hasn’t gone into detail on how he would do that, writes Michael Palmer

Letter: We will see if rhetoric is matched by actions

Google has been fined a comically large amount of money in Russia

Crypto is a type of digital money designed to be used over the internet

Not many people can tell you what cryptocurrency actually is...here's some help

The war in and around the Ukraine, with its resultant breakdown of the international systems of checks and balances, has also fundamentally driven changes in how nations and alliances now need to defend themselves

Steve Aiken: Wars in Israel and Ukraine show the need to invest in security

Morning View

Editorial: We have been printing news from Ulster and the world for 287 years
News Letter editorial on Tuesday September 17 2024:
Editorial

Defence Secretary John Healey

Boost to Belfast weapons plant after UK missiles commitment to Ukraine

A display model of the new LMM (lightweight multi-role missile)

Boost to Belfast weapons plant after UK missiles commitment to Ukraine

Ami Saada (R) looks at a window that was damaged after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit his house on August 25, 2024 in Acre, Israel. On Sunday morning, Israel announced it had launched "preemptive" airstrikes on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah's preparations to attack northern Israel. Hezbollah responded by launching a series of drones against Israeli targets in retaliation for the recent death of one of its top commanders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike last month. A 48-hour state of emergency has been declared across Israel by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

'Pre-emptive strike against Hezbollah like defending against IRA or Russia'

Dwight D Eisenhower, one of America's greatest generals, speaks to his men in Normandy, he was later to become US president

US President Eisenhower dismisses ‘preventive war’ talk (1954)

The cost of 500 litres of oil in NI last week fell to £297, while 900 ltrs fell to £525

The cost of home heating oil in NI drops almost as low as it did last summer

Morning View

Editorial: Supreme Court issues a welcome ruling on Shamima Begum's citizenship

President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington last week. He is still in office but has dropped his presidential re-election bid

Letter: Joe Biden needs to leave office now

Newspapers being printed. Without journalists probing facts, the full story won’t be told. Media expertise has never been as important in interpreting and analysing shock events

David Montgomery: Amidst threats to democracy, journalism is as critical as ever

Birds

The unexpected blessing: Is a bird pooping on you actually lucky?

Jim Allister taking to the media at Meadowbank Sports Arena, Magherafelt, during the count for the 2024 General Election. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Allister holds the key to a financial boost for Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage has introduced a refreshing realism to the general election campaign including his recent pronouncements in respect of the elections in Northern Ireland. Like him, I am not in the DUP but will vote for Sammy Wilson and would for Ian Paisley. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

Letter: Nigel Farage right about Russia and right about who to back in NI poll

Morning View

Editorial: Allister right to reject Farage's drivel about Russia being provoked

Jim Allister said Nigel Farage has made some "dubious utterances" about Northern Ireland.

Allister rejects Farage's views on Russia

Morning View

Editorial: Remembering that immense moment in global history 80 years ago, D-Day

Morning View

Editorial: Russia and China make common cause against western democracies

Letters to editor

Letter: Without profiteering, there would be no wars

Peter Barrett of Steeper Culture in Drumbo, Co Down has relaunched a range of Kombucha soft drinks

Something’s brewing: Kombucha soft drinks from Steeper Culture

Energy bills are set to get cheaper from April

Ofgem energy price cap April 2024 - what it means for you

Morning View

Editorial: Vital UK funding for Ukraine is only a small fraction of our wealth

The Ukraine-Russia war has now been ongoing for two years. In 2023, the Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal donated a total of £390,000 to Ukraine, shared between Christian Aid, Tearfund and Habitat for Humanity charities

Church of Ireland aid for Ukraine families

A church court said Rev Aleksiy Uminsky should be 'expelled from holy orders'

Priest faces expulsion for refusing to pray for victory over Ukraine

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with President Volodymyr Zelensky at a signing ceremony during a visit to the Presidential Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, to announce a major new package of a major new package of £2.5 billion in military aid to the country over the coming year

UK pledge £2.5bn in military aid package for Ukraine

RAC boss brands lower fuel prices in Northern Ireland 'galling' for motorists in GB. Photo: Anna Gowthorpe/PA Wire

RAC boss brands cheaper fuel in Northern Ireland 'galling' for GB motorists

Morning View

Editorial: We wish all of our readers a happy new year

Duane McCreadie, who is helping to lead the construction of Belfast Grand Central Station (pictured inside the main terminal)

Belfast's new Grand Central Station: How costs almost went skyward

Former prime minister Boris Johnson is set to join GB News

Former PM Boris Johnson set to join GB News

Leo Varadkar, pictured at a previous Downing Street press conference

Irish premier Leo Varadkar declares his 'love' for the United Kingdom

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TikTok finds and shuts down secret operation to stir up conflict in Ireland

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