The Irish government has donated more than 1.5 million dollars to Irish immigration organizations in the United States, a statement from Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said Sunday.
The total of 1,518,500 dollars would go to 16 organizations "which provide frontline support and advisory services to Irish emigrants."
Dublin has so far provided over 3.1 million dollars to immigration groups this year as up to an estimated 50,000 Irish citizens living and working in the US face possible deportation for not having visas.
Dublin has been pressuring Washington to grant the so-called undocumented Irish legal status.
Washington, Sept 28 : In a first of its kind survey on free-living protozoa in meat-cutting plants, scientists have shown high diversity rates of various species including those that could harbour food-borne pathogens.
Protozoa are unicellular microorganisms that feed on bacteria. Sometimes the bacteria survive and replicate within the protozoa.
While bacterial presence in meat-processing environments has been previously examined, scientists have not conducted a single study of protozoan communities in these environments and their role in food contamination.
Baghdad - Three Iraqi civilians were killed on Sunday and another three soldiers were injured in two separate incidents in Iraq's restive Diyala province, a security source said.
Some gunmen, suspected to be affiliated to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, attacked a gathering of people in Baquba, shooting three civilians dead, a security source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
Also in Diyala, three Iraqi soldiers were injured in a blast that targeted their army patrol in Baquba's Beldouzer district.
Baquba is located 57 kilometres north-east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
In a similar incident, another three Iraqi soldiers were injured in an explosion that struck their patrol in west Baghdad.
London - Britain's Conservatives were set to start their party conference Sunday, with party leader David Cameron and other top leaders focusing on the economy and mapping out how they would handle it differently than the Labour government.
In remarks before the meeting in Birmingham, Cameron promised he would set out an "alternative" to the government's economic policies and that he backed "short term" action to protect peoples' savings and give the Bank of England powers to rescue failing institutions.
New York, Sep 28 : US presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama differed on Pakistan, especially over US attacks into Pakistani territory, a policy that Islamabad had sharply protested.
During the first of a series of televised debates ahead of the November election, McCain emphasized the need for Pakistan’s support said, he would not publicly state a policy of attacking militants in Pakistan, saying Pakistani support Democratic rival, Obama, responded that the United States should attack militants if Pakistan were unwilling to do so highlighting a difference over Pakistan policy.
Washington, Sept 28 : Comic characters Donald Duck, Wonder Woman, Batman are set to enter the academic curriculum of Dalhousie University next year.
The University is set to introduce a new course Comics and Cartoons that will trace the history of cartoons and comics, from 18th- and 19th-century political propaganda to the golden age of Marvel and DC.
“The department was looking for this kind of a course for a while, since before I came here,” said Anthony Enns, cultural theorist and Dalhousie professor.
“There are many different ways to teach (this course),” said Prof. Enns.
