International

January

January 2024

Ishikawa

Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble five days after deadly Japanese earthquake

6 Jan

7.9k

Pokrovsk

Russian strike kills 11 people in eastern Ukrainian town as cross-border exchanges escalate

6 Jan

6.8k

Haneda airport

Transport officials search for voice recorder in debris of Japan runway collision

6 Jan

9.1k

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ICJ

Irish senators call on Government to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel

6 Jan

14.4k

Flight Safety

Alaska Airlines grounds all Boeing 737-9 aircrafts after window blew out on plane mid-flight

6 Jan

28.6k

Trump

US Supreme Court to decide on if Donald Trump can run for President again

Updated 6 Jan

23.4k

Eurovision

RTÉ receives over 600 emails asking it to boycott Eurovision due to Israel’s involvement

6 Jan

14.5k

Gaza

Israel's bombing of Gaza continues, as Israel says over 100 targets struck in 24 hours

Martin Griffiths said people in the territory are witnessing “daily threats to their very existence”.

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant outlined proposals for how Gaza would be run if Hamas is defeated.

The proposals were unveiled on the eve of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's fourth trip to the region since the conflict started.

The health ministry in Gaza said it had recorded 162 deaths also over the past 24 hours.

5 Jan

15.3k

us 2024

Joe Biden says Trump 'willing to sacrifice democracy' to regain power in first campaign speech

5 Jan

10.4k

Extradition

Rape suspect Nicholas Rossi, who claimed to be Irish orphan, extradited to US from Scotland

5 Jan

26.5k

NRA

Longtime head of US gun rights group announces he's stepping down, days before corruption trial

5 Jan

18.7k

New York attorney general seeks $370 million from Donald Trump in civil fraud trial

5 Jan

18.6k

Rishi Sunak faces another by-election as ex-energy minister quits over drilling legislation

5 Jan

12.4k

vulcan

First US spacecraft to attempt a lunar landing in more than 50 years to launch on Monday

5 Jan

12.9k

Technical Issues

Tesla recalling 1.6 million cars in China to fix steering software

5 Jan

11.3k

RIP

Starsky & Hutch actor David Soul dies aged 80

5 Jan

20.1k

War in Ukraine

Ukraine says it cannot confirm if Russia used North Korean missiles after US claims

5 Jan

6.3k

RIP

Kate Garraway announces death of husband Derek Draper, 56, who suffered long effects of Covid-19

5 Jan

46.7k

Cost of Living

Eurozone inflation jumps in December to 2.9%, dampening calls for interest rate cuts

5 Jan

8.9k

Kerman

Iranian president joins mourners for funerals of 85 people killed by IS bombings

5 Jan

5.5k

Darts

Luke Littler set for Dublin after teenager named in Premier League Darts line-up

4 Jan

19.1k

United States

Former Delta co-pilot accused of threatening to shoot plane captain mid-flight due in US court

4 Jan

17.3k

Belarus

Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko signs new law giving himself immunity from prosecution

4 Jan

19.6k

London

Two men who used neo-Nazi podcast to encourage listeners to commit violent acts jailed

4 Jan

15.8k

plans

Man United manager Erik Ten Hag holds 'very positive' first meeting with Jim Ratcliffe

4 Jan

9.0k

Iran

Islamic State claims responsibility for twin Iran bombings that killed 84 people

4 Jan

9.4k

Middle East

Funeral of Hamas leader in Beirut as Blinken heads for Middle East amid wider conflict fears

Tensions have surged with Lebanon, where a strike in Beirut on Tuesday, widely assumed to have been carried out by Israel, killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri.

Aruri was killed in the south Beirut stronghold of the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.

The Israeli military, in its campaign to destroy the Islamist militant group, has reported more strikes in and around Gaza City.

Updated 4 Jan

13.5k

Watch

Judge attacked by defendant caught on camera leaping over bench in Nevada

4 Jan

16.2k

Epstein files

What’s contained in the Jeffrey Epstein files and what does it mean for those named?

4 Jan

23.0k

2024

Sunak cools spring election talk, says he's 'working towards' UK vote in late 2024

4 Jan

5.9k

Copilot

Microsoft adds dedicated AI assistant button to Windows PC keyboards

4 Jan

10.1k

Japan Airlines

Pilots on Japan Airlines plane that caught fire had no 'visual contact' before collision

4 Jan

14.6k

epstein

US judge begins to unseal identities of people linked in court documents to Jeffrey Epstein

4 Jan

22.9k

The Morning Lead

Irish experts hear 'sobering' accounts from frontline as they train Ukrainian troops in Cyprus

An Irish team has returned from a mission training Ukrainian soldiers in specialist search techniques for bomb disposal.

4 Jan

18.5k

US politics

US Republicans push impeachment of Biden's immigration chief

3 Jan

12.4k

Middle East

At least 103 people killed and 211 wounded in bombings in Iran at ceremony near general's grave

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed “evil and criminal enemies” of the country for the attack and vowed a “harsh response.”

Updated 3 Jan

57.8k

Oscar Pistorius

Pistorius to be released this Friday after serving nearly 10 years for girlfriend's murder

3 Jan

23.8k

Middle East

Hezbollah leader warns Israel against waging war on Lebanon as fears rise of wider conflict

Hamas’s number two Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by Israel.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel to "avoid any escalatory attitude".

Updated 3 Jan

23.1k

Ryanair

Ryanair's revenues could take a hit after it was removed from travel agent websites

3 Jan

46.4k

nordic freeze

Nordic countries experience extreme cold, as temperatures fall below -40 degrees

3 Jan

37.5k