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According to a report, two rockets launched from the Gaza strip on new years day fell into the Mediterranean sea near Tel Aviv.

The 2021 military escalation, the fourth since Hamas took control in 2007 is named guardian of the walls leading to conclusion that hamas is not opposed to the enclave.

According to a report, the army ranger wing, the Irish army’s special unit is to cease counterterrorism activity in Mali this year. Reportedly, the arw is in Mali as part of minusma, considered the most dangerous of the defence forces missions, and operates as part of a german intelligence surveillance unit.

The 13,000 strong french led mission commenced in 2013 due to conflict with the Tuareg people. According to the report, Irish involvement was authorised by the dáil in 2019 for a two year period which has been extended until this September. Reportedly, 190 u.n. personnel have died.

According to the report, another 20 irish troops are deployed in Mali as part of an eu training mission.

Reportedly, the new pandemic unemployment payment will have five rates ranging from €150 per week to €350 for those earning €400 or more per week.

Reportedly, the presidents of the u.s. and Russia will talk in a video call today concerning the situation in Ukraine. According to reports, the russian ukraine war began in February 2014 with a Russian invasion of Crimea. Reportedly, a referendum asking Crimeans whether they wished to be part of Ukraine or the federation of Russia took place in March, but is Russia a federation?

According to reports, following the accident at Chernobyl in 1986, reportedly the world’s worst nuclear disaster, and the breakup of the soviet union, Ukraine who held a third of russia’s nuclear arsenal agreed to join the nuclear non proliferation treaty.

Reportedly, the euromaiden protests was the name given to a series of political demonstrations beginning in Kyiv in 2013. According to a report, Prime minister Viktor Yanukovich was overthrown in March 2014 following rejection of the eu-Ukraine association agreement in favour of a russian eurasian customs agreement. Reportedly, in April, russian backed militants occupied administrative buildings in Donetsk, Donbas, and russia began a political and military campaign.

According to reports, the eu-Ukraine association agreement, signed by Ukraine, the eu and the european atomic energy committee committed Ukraine to converge its policies and legislation to the eu and to convergence in the common security and defence policy. Reportedly, the csdp involves the deployment of military missions in accordance with the u.n. and is the subject of discussion and criticism.

According to a report, in November 2014, Ukraine military reported intensive movement of russian troops and equipment into seperatist controlled parts of eastern Ukraine. Reportedly, since 2014 russia have deployed nuclear weapons including long range bombers and ballistic missiles to Crimea, and according to a 2020 report, have done work on the russian nuclear weapons facility, feodosia 13.

According to reports, the eu who have been investigating foreign exchange spot trading in relation to a cartel of banks have imposed total fines of €261 million on four banks; ubs, barclays, royal bank of Scotland and hsbc who decided to settle, and fined credit suisse who did not cooperate €83 million.

Reportedly, the investigation is the sixth enquiry into the financial sector since 2013, concluding the third leg into foreign exchange spot trading. According to reports, a foreign exchange spot transaction is an agreement between parties to buy stocks, bonds or commodities in a currency and sell in another on an arranged date. Reportedly, the collusive activity has undermined the integrity of the financial sector at the expense of the european economy. According to a report, forex the digital foreign exchange market has a daily volume of €6.6 trillion. Reportedly, the investigation revealed that some traders in charge of forex spot trading coordinated trading strategies through an online chat room called ‘sterling lads’.

According to a report, the u.s. are considering whether to sanction companies working on the Nord stream 2 Russia to eu pipeline. Reportedly, Nord stream 2 could double Russian gas to Germany, providing inexpensive energy as the country makes the transition from coal and nuclear energy.

Reportedly, according to a spokesperson for icis, intelligence analysing european gas has said capacity auctions will be watched intently by the market for any signal concerning flows from Russia. According to the report, the regions biggest supplier said it aims to continue refilling european storage sites. Reportedly, uk natural gas prices have increased from 50 pence per therm in April to £2.30 per therm.

Reportedly, two suicide bombings in November in Kampala resulting in the closure of the Ugandan parliament have been attributed to islamic state central Africa province, known locally as the allied democratic forces. According to the report, the attacks were followed by the Ugandan and Congolese armies staging air and ground strikes against adf camps. Reportedly, the adf are one of the deadliest armed groups fighting for control of mineral resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, includes gold and uranium.

According to a report, it could take weeks to identify how effective current vaccines are on a new covid variant named omnicron, that has a new spike protein.

Reportedly, antibody tests should not be used on infected or recently infected persons, it takes from one to three weeks following infection for antibodies to develop. According to reports, studies show that naturally acquired immunity is more effective against variants than vaccinations, which contain a single antigen or toxin to induce an immune response.

According to a report, infected people may be asymptomatic, with regard to pcr tests, the cycle threshold number numder tells how many cycles through the pcr machine were required for a positive result. Reportedly, twenty or so cycles indicate a relatively high viral load, 35-40 cycles could be very little virus at all.

According to reports, the quirindale treaty, essentially negotiated this year has been signed by France and Italy this morning.

Reportedly, according to a late draft of the treaty, a theme is cooperation in a partnership of foreign policy, cloud computing and macroeconomics. According to a report, France first suggested the pact in 2017. Reportedly, former prime minister Matteo Salvini clashed with France over Libya.

According to a 1980 report, Africa’s resources were listed as diamonds, 75% of world’s supplies, gold 70%, platinum 46%, copper 20% and uranium more than 20%. According to the report, while these resources were concentrated in southern countries, gas, oil, phosphates, iron and uranium were located in north Africa, the western Sahara and the Sahel.

The Sahel stretches from the Atlantic ocean to the Red Sea, from Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Reportedly, in 1912 the plan for the organisation of the Sahel identified an administrative and military arrangement. According to the report, the area encompassed the Sahara, Libya, southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Reportedly, the area was extended following the discovery of two important oil fields in 1956 in eastern Algeria. The Algerian war for independence from France ended in 1962. According to a report, the french wanted to maintain their interests in the area, including control over Saharan oil reserves. Reportedly, Algeria ceded to france certain air bases, terrains, sites and military installations sites including facilities for underground nuclear testing in the Sahara.

Reports from the Sahel are of nationalist agendas contrary to western interests and the ambitions of al qaeda, jihad activity and problems with water supplies. According to a report, in 2002 the u.s. created a combined joint task force for the horn of Africa, the trans Sahel counter terrorism innitiative in 2005 and the Africa command in 2008, resulting in military training for Africans and counter terrorism partnerships in Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Morrocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger and Chad.