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- Malaysia suspends search for long-missing flight MH370 April 3, 2025The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended as it is "not the season", Kuala Lumpur's transport minister said, more than a decade after the plane went missing.
- Micko was unique - his legacy will last forever April 3, 2025Marty Morrissey remembers Mick O'Dwyer - fine player, revolutionary manager, an Irish sporting icon who wore his greatness lightly.
- World stocks slump as trade war stirs recession fears April 3, 2025World stocks dived this morning and investors scrambled for the safety of bonds, gold and the yen, fearing new US tariffs have intensified a trade war threatening to tip the world into recession.
- Timeline: Did government mislead the public on housing numbers? April 3, 2025In recent weeks opposition leaders have ramped up pressure on Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris, and current ministers Jack Chambers and Darragh O'Brien, over housing figures trumpeted in the run-up to, and during, the last election
- Trump's 25% tariffs on imported autos take effect April 3, 2025Follow developments as the world reacts to sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump.
- Man jailed for killing Sligo man in Australia April 3, 2025A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for the murder of his future son-in-law, Irish man Damien Conlon in New South Wales.
- Nothing is 'reciprocal' about Donald Trump's tariffs April 3, 2025With the weighted average EU tariff on US goods around 3%, Donald Trump's 20% is neither kind, nor reciprocal, writes Edmund Heaphy.
- Irish pharma sector avoids 20% tariff in immediate future April 3, 2025Ireland's pharmaceutical sector appears to have largely avoided a new US tariff rate for now, amid a broader 20% tax imposed on other goods from the European Union.
- US tariffs are 'major blow to world economy' - EU chief April 3, 2025European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described US President Donald Trump's universal tariffs as a major blow to the world economy and said the EU was prepared to respond with countermeasures if negotiations failed.
