The GuardianIndia's Cockroach movement launches new protests over changes to voter roll
Thousands gather in Mumbai as India's Cockroach movement protests voter-list changes feared to deny millions the vote.
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Thousands gather in Mumbai as India's Cockroach movement protests voter-list changes feared to deny millions the vote.
France is gripped by student protests with fires and hundreds of arrests; the government was caught off guard by the scale.
School protests escalate into what officials call urban violence, with about 900 demonstrations; the PM calls a crisis cabinet.
G7 leaders agree to release up to 100m barrels of emergency oil and diesel reserves within four months.
UK diesel hits a record £2 a litre as France proposes EU and IEA reserve releases while the Iran war lifts costs.
Kathy Hochul says the woman in the alleged Cornell gang-rape case was failed by the system; Letitia James takes over the whole case.
Letitia James is appointed special prosecutor in the Cornell case after questions about the university's 2024 investigation.
Calls grow for a US death penalty halt after Christa Pike's botched execution, which experts call unimaginably barbaric.
Explainer on Pike, who survived two lethal injections and was taken to hospital.
Video: Pike's lawyer calls the botched execution cruel and torturous; Tennessee has suspended executions for the year.
Experts doubt the flydubai co-pilot only wanted to end his own life and say the key question is how he was radicalised.
Pilot Smit Machchhar tells India's PM by video call he realised passengers would die if he did not fight the attacker.
The US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying fuel to Cuba, boarded and taken to Mexico as the embargo continues.
Lib Dems urge Andy Burnham to publish all his meetings with Manchester City's owners.
Peter Thiel is revealed as the secret buyer of Casa Encantada, a 1938 Bel Air mansion once owned by Conrad Hilton.
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Exchequer returns show a €3bn tax boost as multinationals front-load payments, with €4.9bn collected in September.
Protesting farmers demand the Bord Bia chair quit over foreign chicken served at a restaurant he co-owns.
Ardmore in Co Waterford is named Ireland's Greenest Place.
Julie Ann McIlwaine wins a bid to overturn her murder conviction after jurors were misdirected on loss of control.
Blackpool locals bristle at its image as a hotspot now also marked by addiction and deprivation.
Remains of 10 more infants are found at a former mother and baby home site, bringing the total to 109.
A woman is arrested after a seven-year campaign against a Galway family.
Review: The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In, a Christmas-style TV special full of Irish family comedy.
Files reveal plans for a European defence union and closer Nato cooperation.
Opinion: Drumcree shows unification is the North's best bet, since the dispute is about entitlement to rule the roost.
Ministers complain bitterly of getting a kicking in budget talks as Jack Chambers tries to hold increases to 6 per cent.
Audio: Inside Politics podcast says budget drama could go to the wire.
The family of Kathleen Carey, who died in the Dublin balcony fall, prepare her funeral weeks after burying her sister.
Complaints about doctors to the Medical Council rose 12% in 2025, with 86 cases referred to fitness-to-practise.
Taaffes shop on William Street in Galway, empty since 1996, has a new owner.
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Two people are dead after an accident in Crossnacreevy, Co Down, and the Ballygowan Road is closed.
A daughter's court statement ahead of sentencing of a man who knocked down 74-year-old Tony Miskimmon as he went to help a harassed woman.
A pop-up Gaeltacht tent is erected on Garvaghy Road in a show of community presence.
A man is charged over a bottle thrown at a PSNI Land Rover during the Garvaghy Road dispute; another man is charged with breach of the peace.
Christy Moore rewrites a Bobby Sands ballad in support of Garvaghy Road residents ahead of a Saturday solidarity rally.
NI Secretary Chris Bryant says the situation is between a rock and a hard place as Drumcree talks end without agreement.
Opinion: Chris Donnelly warns the Drumcree crisis could have consequences far beyond Portadown.
The Policing Board opens a probe into Deirdre Hargey's Garvaghy Road protest appearance, with a conflict-of-interest question raised.
A Garvaghy Road man prays for peace and recalls his mother, Dorothy Trainor, shot dead by loyalists in 1975.
Companies are fined £145,000 over a dumper truck death at a Co Antrim aqueduct; the fiancée pays tribute to John Traynor.
Dunnes Stores' Northern Ireland business posts a £22.7m pre-tax profit for 2025, its best since restructuring.
A landmark Edwardian courthouse in Northern Ireland is to be sold, with Naomi Long saying it can return to active use.
Police release an image of Bangor man Mark Adamson, a former soldier who assaulted and strangled his ex over nine months.
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TUV councillor Ron McDowell admits sharing a fake AI Drumcree rally image and calls himself an old eejit.
A victim of a former priest guilty of rape says the Church of England should be ashamed.
A child is in stable condition after being hit by a car outside Linn Primary School in Larne.
A west Belfast priest is left devastated after a break-in in which his passport, laptop and cash were stolen.
Boutcher promises a robust probe into complaints of Sinn Féin lawbreaking on Garvaghy Road as the PSNI faces scrutiny.
Analysis: Drumcree leaves Stormont on the brink as the DUP and Sinn Féin face off.
Opinion: Drumcree is a symptom of a deeper sickness and everyone loses however it ends.
Belfast tour guides explain how tours show a city with a rich but troubled history and how far it has come.
A motorcyclist is in critical condition after a car and motorcycle crash on the Killyleagh Road in Crossgar; police seek witnesses.
A Co Fermanagh landscape gardener who attacked a pensioner with a strimmer is sentenced; the victim says he is no longer the man he was.
A man in his 80s is critical after an A1 collision in Newry; police appeal for witnesses and dashcam footage.