Saturday 17 October 2026Morning (Europe/Dublin)
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Trump has paused new Russia sanctions passed by Congress amid a deepening row, waiving the restrictions - championed by late senator Lindsey Graham - just as they were due to come into effect.
Starlink access is still not fully restored for Ukraine's military, Zelenskyy says, calling the US decision to limit it a dangerous and unpleasant surprise amid reports the order came from inside the White House.
Analysis: the attacks on power plants reflect a Russian blueprint to make Ukraine uninhabitable, the Kremlin turning to punishment of the population in major cities as frontlines stay frozen.
Ukraine war briefing: Russia is building a non-negotiable 'security zone' inside Ukraine, Putin saying it will not be part of any peace talks, with the Kremlin putting its span at 660km. What we know on day 1,697.
'I cannot carry all of this alone': the couples kept apart by the war in Ukraine - families scattered, fathers separated from their children, couples unable to reunite and marry.
India's Cockroach Janta party leader Abhijeet Dipke has been detained in a crackdown ahead of planned anti-government demonstrations in Delhi.
Brazilian Amazon deforestation has fallen to its lowest on record, the smallest total since records began in 1988 - a success for Lula ahead of the presidential run-off.
Brazil's Lula now backs lowering the age of criminal responsibility for heinous crimes, reversing his position in what many see as a desperate electoral gambit.
Katie Zacharia has been fired after five days as White House press secretary, after a widely panned first briefing and scrutiny after admitting she didn't pass the bar exam.
Analysis: Katie Zacharia's five days as press secretary expose flaws in Trump's TV-driven hiring - the president reportedly chose her after seeing her on television, and her first briefing and disastrous interviews sealed her fate.
The bystander who killed the Oregon school shooter has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco, a father of girls at the elementary school, reportedly driving home when he heard gunshots; his family says he is not seeking recognition.
The shooter in the fatal Bend, Oregon, school shooting was a former student: Griffin J John II (16) barged into the elementary school and began shooting, killing one teacher and three children.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been moved to a new Pennsylvania prison after reports of a luxury lifestyle, perks and fight injuries at his New Jersey lockup.
A judge has sentenced three men to 158 years in prison for the murders of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad, killed on a surf trip in Baja California in 2024.
Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield have been dismissed by a judge, who ruled the prosecution did not act in a fair and impartial way in grand jury proceedings.
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Retailers on Dublin's O'Connell Street have been hit with legal notices under revaluation laws: Circle K, Peter Mark and Allcare Pharmacy face Dublin City Council enforcement cases over alleged planning non-compliance.
A solicitor used client cash to fund the Forest Fest music event, a court heard, with the deficit in client funds rising from 450,000 to 1.13m euro between June and August, says a Law Society investigator.
'We all call him baby Jesus': welcome to Marty Morrissey's Marty Party in Alicante, where kindness and community are to the fore, featuring six of Ireland's seven Eurovision winners.
The Waterford village fighting back against a data centre: a proposed development in Kilmeaden has residents asking pointed questions, including who data centres are good for.
'Leave my health out of it': Patrick O'Donovan characterises anonymous Fine Gael party briefings on health as a sad day for Irish politics.
Legal deals with planning objectors raise concerns over the risk of ransom payments, with millions in taxpayer money paid out to prevent further delay of infrastructure projects.
The Gaeltacht is being destroyed because we won't build houses: young families make communities, and if they have no place to live, the community dies.
Strike success leaves unions in a position of strength, and Jack Chambers has a problem: negotiating a deal good for the Government will be a challenge once all parties are around the table.
Sabena Power, matriarch of the Paddy Power bookmaker family and artist Anne Madden le Brocquy, has left an estate valued at more than 6.5m euro.
It's a relief to see another 'god' of swimming jailed, writes an abuse survivor, but swimmers abused by Irish coaches have never received an official, public apology from anyone in Irish sport.
Consultants' private healthcare in public settings has 'ceased', a HSE review says, with all regions providing assurance that private practice in public settings had ended.
A public pay deal will be done - and here's what it will look like: the Government has to make a show of safeguarding public money, unions have to fight for every last euro, and there will be late nights.
Wednesday's public sector strike has been called off after unions and Government agreed to enter a focused and intensive exercise aimed at agreeing a basis for formal negotiations.
Rome is to consider sainthood for Irish Jesuit priest Fr Willie Doyle, killed in the bloody first world war; the Pope will make the final decision once theologians are satisfied he lived a life of heroic virtue.
CRH analysts play catch-up as Wall Street braces for a rare earnings miss, with rising energy costs and a slump in US housebuilding pressuring the building materials group's forecasts.
Dublin DJ Jazzy: 'Calvin Harris messaged me on Instagram to say he loved' - the naturally modest DJ is still coming to grips with going from Tesco's bakery section to touring the world.
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BBC Northern Ireland is set to cut its Irish language staff by more than half - 60 percent - and axe its flagship Irish language programme, The Irish News understands.
Five 'drug' bags have been discovered in toilets at Stormont buildings, with suspected drug paraphernalia found in a Parliament Buildings toilet this summer, the Assembly has confirmed.
Newton Emerson: Stormont can go through the motions but can't balance the books - our Saturday columnist's inimitable take on the week's news.
The Department of Health is facing calls for a tougher response to illegal 'pop-up' clinics, and an MLA says more needs to be done for patients needing follow-up care after travelling abroad for dental treatments.
Review: a hotel dining experience that's one to remember from start to finish - Chris McClurg at Regency House is aiming for the highest peaks of Belfast's culinary landscape.
Assault, intimidation and harassment are among over 70 incidents of abuse against those working for DAERA and its arms-length bodies, described as unwarranted and unacceptable.
Gearradh direireach agus buille mearfach don Ghaeilge iad ciorruithe an BBC: drochbhlas do phobal na Gaeilge (Irish-language opinion on the BBC cuts).
Brian Feeney: there will be no return to 'normal' for the world after Trump, who has altered America's role so radically that no Democratic presidential candidate will campaign to turn back the clock.
The DUP is accused of forcing through damaging and expensive beach cleaning equipment on the coasts.
Patrick Murphy: five hours, four buses and one sick health service - extreme solutions need to be considered.
Killing Anna review: the incredible story of how catfishing caught a mass murder - more than 650,000 dead in a war which ended less than two years ago, yet it feels forgotten.
A camogie victory celebration is believed to be among six 'unnotified' processions that have taken place over the past week, police say.
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Jeffrey Donaldson is to be questioned behind bars by Met Police over an allegation he sexually assaulted a woman in his House of Commons office in 2016.
London shouldn't give Stormont any more money: Stormont's financial chaos, moral hazard and failing services exposed as London cash keeps flowing - but John O'Dowd says enough is enough.
Paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson will be under threat every day of his sentence in Maghaberry jail, a former governor of the Maze prison has warned.
TV remotes and Lego are among the 'foreign objects' hospitals removed from patients.
A boy aged 16 and an 80-year-old man have been killed in a light aircraft crash.
The family of a GAA fan murdered by loyalists who claimed security force collusion with the killers are to receive an apology and undisclosed damages from the PSNI.
Saying 'AI' do: a new play that sees a man joined in matrimony with technology, as co-writer Zoe Seaton uses a Belfast International Arts theatre event to explore how technology reshapes love, loneliness and relationships.
Comment: speeding drivers who kill get meagre sentences, while the victims' families serve life - recalling one of the most shocking road safety TV ads ever shown here.
From attic monitor to lost evidence: inside the CCTV saga of the Noah Donohoe case, an extract from Donal MacIntyre's new book 'Noah Donohoe: The Search for Truth'.
Exclusive: Jeffrey Donaldson's MoD role in Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, with luxury trips, fees and soft power influence revealed in a Belfast Telegraph investigation.
Jeffrey Donaldson's victims speak out for the first time: the two women reveal how they overheard strangers discussing their abuse in hairdressers and coffee shops.
Inside the courtroom as Donaldson's catastrophic fall played out: a paedophile who once had the ear of prime ministers and presidents.
All you need to know as Donaldson is to walk free from prison in seven-and-a-half years, the Lady Chief Justice's office confirms.
'When he got his award he was asleep under the table': a Co Down social worker whose pet Sebastian won an award for his work as a court therapy dog.
The Education Authority chief says a typo prevented funding, as an MLA accuses the Education Minister of trying to invent a mechanism to hand money to Richhill AFC.
'It's a sad day': a fresh blow for local comedy as co-writer Tim McGarry, who has also lost Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game, says the BBC has basically cut everything we've ever done.
Silence on Stormont's 750,000 pound instrument fund, as over 10 loyalist bands - a publicly-funded programme that supplies musical instruments refuses to say if those who have vowed to cut ties with police are excluded.
How MLAs traded insults during a three-hour debate before the no-confidence votes, none of which received cross-community support.
Live coverage of the Drumcree dispute as a DUP delegation meets the PSNI chief and the party demands full transparency.
The DUP could be the biggest losers from Drumcree as a new political climate emerges, with the parading row heading back to court.
Chris Bryant rejects claims he bowed to mob rule over the Drumcree parade decision.
'What's the point keeping all these hidden gems behind closed doors?' - Open Cabinets Month runs at Castle Ward until November 1.
A Co Down RAF veteran, Carole McCullough (52) from Bangor, is to lead a five-month mission to Antarctica after applying while looking for a bit of an adventure.
'If it's not resolved the trauma will pass to another generation': charity patron James Nesbitt accompanied victims on their trip to meet the Prime Minister.
Podcast: Ammi Burke - the solicitor's legal showdown with her former employer; the Burkes are back, but this time it's not Enoch grabbing the headlines.
Opinion: the only person in the world to publicly support Jeffrey Donaldson; he and Jonathan Aitken have plenty in common after decades in Westminster's corridors of power.
NI airport ground staff used an internal system for underhand practice, with Swissport saying it took all appropriate action during its investigation.
A Belfast family searches for answers after their mother, who had dementia, was allegedly assaulted inside a care home; a doctor said it significantly contributed to her declining health before her death.
How Eddie Coll became Northern Ireland's longest-serving prisoner under the two strikes law, and now speaks from prison.
David Lavery's previous conduct is to be considered before members vote on motions of no confidence in him and the Law Society's leadership.
Stormont MLA Gerry Carroll has been interviewed by police over the Garvaghy Road parade.
Una Kavanagh on Tennessee Williams's character: the actor and artist on her appreciation for her latest role in a play being performed in Belfast for the first time in 20 years.
A west Belfast couple who stole the family car belonging to the father of heart transplant recipient Daithi Mac Gabhann have been sentenced.
Plumes of smoke over homes in Lurgan after an oil delivery lorry went up in flames, as firefighters rushed to the scene.
'We are lucky to be alive': a mum of four describes how she and her children escaped a pipe bomb attack in north Belfast believed to be a case of mistaken identity.
Any probe of Sky's 1.6bn pound takeover of UTV's parent company must include its impact on media in Northern Ireland, a trade union boss has said.