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Flavio Bolsonaro is poised to win Brazil's presidency after a shock first round, leaving progressive voters reeling.
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Flavio Bolsonaro is poised to win Brazil's presidency after a shock first round, leaving progressive voters reeling.
Live first-round results as incumbent Lula faces Flavio Bolsonaro.
Brazil heads to the polls: pictures from a highly polarised presidential vote.
A Saudi-led coalition says an air campaign with 100 fighter jets is under way against the Houthis in Yemen.
Iran's oil minister resigns as the economy worsens amid falling oil receipts and rampant inflation.
India's supreme court demands answers over voter roll changes after millions were removed and mass protests followed.
Quebec is poised to elect separatists for the first time in decades; the Parti Quebecois promises an independence referendum by 2028.
The US monitors the case of a lab worker who possibly died of plague, with quarantine in several hospitals in eastern Russia.
A major global study finds women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, with the steepest rise before 55.
France braces for a national day of school protests on Tuesday as a boy loses a hand and concern grows over police response.
Norway plans a temporary ban on camera-enabled smart glasses in some public places over covert recording fears.
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Michelle O'Neill says the law is wrong on the Orange Order Drumcree march as the Court of Appeal reserves judgment.
Over 200 solicitors and barristers protest outside the Criminal Courts of Justice over a new payment model; a High Court decision is due next week.
Influencer Lisa McGowan's Tullamore company returns to profit as she pays herself €1.9m.
Mountjoy prison officer Liam Donoghue (52) dies after being hit by a taxi in Madrid.
An increase in the rent tax credit is on the table as budget talks enter the final phase; a college fees cut now looks unlikely.
The largest ever number of GPs graduates as the State moves to boost numbers to meet demand.
A judge calls drug barons a cancer on the State as two boys are sentenced over a Mullingar shotgun incident.
Waste firm Panda is sent for trial over a worker's death.
Audio: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the far right as "traitors to creation", on the Inside Politics podcast.
The Ticketmaster trial over 2025 Oasis concert prices is delayed to the new year.
Gillian Anderson tells fans outside a Soho theatre "we can all see you" as she performs in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Analysis: Irish drug dealers use impressionable teenagers to receive cannabis as grow houses shrink in importance.
Moy Park paid a £143m dividend to its US parent as it cut costs, with operating profits up 34%.
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Garvaghy Road residents say a court delay would prolong their anxiety as they oppose the Orange Order parade.
Michelle O'Neill says she will keep turning up for Garvaghy Road residents; Jim Allister calls her First Minister of lawlessness.
A Derry priest is to be removed from the priesthood after admitting 109 child sex offences; the bishop urges victims to come forward.
A Twinbrook drug dealer with £250,000 cash in boxes is caught after the EncroChat network was infiltrated.
Drumcree returns to court as residents appeal, arguing the Parades Commission failed to properly weigh police advice.
Opinion: Patricia Mac Bride says Garvaghy Road residents have won the battle for hearts and minds.
Kneecap are mobbed by fans during a Garvaghy Road protest visit.
Republicans and loyalists hold opposing Garvaghy Road protests in Glasgow with no trouble reported.
The Taoiseach questions Sinn Fein's sincerity and calls its view of Drumcree overly simplistic.
The Irish News reports that the size of a critically ill Gazan child's family must be considered before the child is brought to the UK for treatment.
The home of a far-right activist is targeted in two Coleraine shootings while a child was inside; the PSNI are investigating.
Garvan O'Doherty, who helped broker Apprentice Boys parade deals, says dropping the Garvaghy Road march would earn the Orange Order genuine credibility.
Annie Butler, the Co Antrim seamstress who went viral on her 100th birthday, dies aged 100.
An old Masonic lodge in east Belfast becomes Vault Art Studios, a space for artists, performers and musicians.
Is the Irish funeral dying? Northern Ireland, the UK's last burial stronghold, sees wakes on a timer and options like direct cremation.
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An inquest hears how the scene of one of NI's worst crashes looked, in which four young people died near Armagh in March 2024.
Michelle O'Neill vows to be First Minister for what is right; the DUP's Brett is told to catch himself on over a resignation question.
A campaign raises awareness of life-altering injuries from fireworks.
The FTSE outperforms European peers as the euro struggles.
A Lockerbie bombing trial date is set as a US judge warns against further delay.
A paedophile who stabbed a horse has bail varied to allow travel despite multiple breaches of a sex offences order.
Opinion: Michelle O'Neill cannot be First Minister when it suits her and a protester when it does not.
The air ambulance is scrambled to a serious incident in Belfast's Titanic Quarter involving a person hit by a car.
The Orange Order offers a one-and-done Fleadh-linked deal on Garvaghy Road; loyalists warn of protests if it is rejected.
Drumcree hardens even moderates such as Claire Hanna as O'Neill, Mac Cionnaith and Jamie Bryson clash over the parade.
The DUP claims its leader is the victim of a dirty tricks campaign over meetings held during the Drumcree deadlock.
Former IRA chief Frankie Quinn denies advising a Garvaghy Road residents' spokesman after being seen with Breandan Mac Cionnaith.
Green councillor Brian Smyth, an east Belfast MLA candidate, says Stormont needs a new injection of ideas.
Tributes are paid to former Derry mayor Shaun Gallagher as colleagues remember a passionate public servant.
A man is attacked with a hammer after masked men invade his east Belfast bedroom in an aggravated burglary.
The former owner of an insolvent Lisburn roofing company gets a seven-year boardroom ban over misuse of a Covid-era loan.