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Cognizant appoints Rob Walker as MD for UK, Ireland operations

As a member of Cognizant's global growth markets leadership team, Walker will be based in London and lead all aspects of Cognizant's operat...

UN member states, leaders welcome India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico and Norway to UNSC

India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti installed the Indian tricolor at the ceremony and said that as India as...

India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland and Kenya join polarized United Nations Security Council

Divisions within the council have sharpened in recent years as the US under President Donald Trump took a unilateral approach to diplomacy.

Special feat for an Afghan player to win ICC T20I Cricketer of Decade award: Rashid

The 22-year-old leg-spinner was the highest wicket-taker in T20 Internationals in the past 10 years with 89 scalps at an average of 12.62. ...

Brexit Impact: Indian IT firms eye Ireland as a gateway to UK, Europe

IT transactions and spending activity has increased in the past year in the Nordic and DACH region, especially in areas such as Cloud, data...

Between Brexit and coronavirus, UK togetherness is fraying

England, Scotland and Wales have been joined since 1707 with Northern Ireland added in 1921 -- four parts of a single country -- but since ...

Chief of Asia's largest pharmaceutical company urges transparency in virus vaccine rollout

Takeda, one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, is not developing its own vaccine but has contracts with several firms to dist...

ICC announces rescheduled qualification path to 2022 U-19 World Cup

India, Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe have already q...

Britain cuts self-isolation period to 10 days for domestic contacts, international arrivals

The shorter self-isolation period will begin from Dec. 14 and apply in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, a government statement said....

90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland becomes first patient in UK to receive Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

Margaret Keenan, from Enniskillen, said she felt "so privileged" to receive the jab at University Hospital, Coventry. Keenan become the fir...

'Good chance' of Brexit trade deal within days, Ireland says

The United Kingdom leaves the EU's orbit on Dec. 31, when a transition period of informal membership ends following its formal departure la...

Amazon apologises after saying Northern Ireland not part of the United Kingdom

Chris Jones, from Ballyclare in County Antrim, who was told by Amazon's customer support account on Twitter that he was not in the UK, said...

UK, Ireland say breakthrough needed in Brexit talks this week

Without a deal, around $1 trillion worth of trade would be at risk of disruption through tariffs and tougher rules after the Dec. 31 expiry...

Five reasons why Ireland is key to a Brexit deal

With little sign of an end to the latest stalemate, a dose of the Anglo-Irish creative ambiguity that delivered the last deal may be called...

KFC says to create 5,400 jobs in UK, Ireland

KFC said in a statement that it would create the new positions over the next three months, taking this year's new intake since the Covid-19...

Ireland is first EU country to re-enter lockdown

Ireland will be the first EU country to return to coronavirus lockdown, prime minister Micheal Martin said on Monday, issuing a nationwide ...

Northern Ireland to close schools, bars to curb coronavirus spread

“We will need to exit these arrangements most carefully,” the region’s First Minister Arlene Foster said. “We must reach a different place ...