Monday 26 October 2026
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'Democracy always': Lula vows no return to dictatorship in Brazil after his election win, as leaders and governments worldwide congratulate him on a dramatic comeback seen as an important signal to the rest of Latin America.
Analysis: a viral WhatsApp channel and student-led protests played a key role in driving the veteran Brazilian leftist to a historic comeback victory.
Interactive results from Brazil's second-round runoff, where Lula overturned a shock first-round defeat to beat Bolsonaro.
In pictures: Lula supporters celebrate a shock election victory after the Brazilian president's dramatic second-round fightback to claim a fourth term.
Today in Focus, The Latest: how did Lula beat far-right Bolsonaro? Michael Safi speaks to Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips about what comes next as Bolsonaro refuses to concede.
Serbia's Student List is preparing for talks on forming a government despite having no clear leader; the non-hierarchical movement seeks to 'rebuild society' after years of authoritarian rule.
In pictures: cheers, fireworks and flags as jubilant crowds turn out in Belgrade after Vucic concedes defeat, ousting Serbia's long-serving leader.
Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey travel to Tehran in an effort to avert a flare-up with the US and Israel as bellicose rhetoric heightens.
European gas prices soar to a four-year high over winter supply fears, fuelled by reports of US-Israeli plans to strike Iran and worries of further Middle East disruption.
Exclusive: coordinated airstrikes on al-Shabaab-held territory in Somalia are driving civilians towards a river where rising El Nino floodwaters threaten their safety, prompting accusations that US forces are 'weaponising' the floods.
West Bank: nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron are displaced as Israeli forces take over homes, a move residents call 'collective punishment' as Netanyahu seeks to prove security credentials days before the election.
Explainer: what you need to know about the most consequential election in Israel's history, as Netanyahu seeks a new mandate in the first vote since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks.
US politics live: Republican and Democratic ex-governors David Beasley and Jim Hodges issue a rare joint endorsement of Democrat Annie Andrews to flip the South Carolina Senate seat held by Lindsey Graham's Trump-backed sister Darline.
In reliably red Ohio, Democratic candidates say discontent with Trump is buoying them: 'People are disgusted by the corruption', with some voters planning to vote Democrat for the first time.
Two Catholic bishops accuse the Trump White House of turning prayer into a campaign photo op, expressing regret after it posted photos and video of a prayer with them in the Oval Office.
Audi boss Gernot Dollner is under fire in Germany for appearing at a Trump rally to announce a major US investment days before the midterm elections.
Russell Brand had an 'insane sexual appetite' and his bad behaviour was normalised, his trial is told; a former assistant alleges Brand, charged with rape and sexual assault, was 'sleeping with people day and night'.
Anthropic reveals rapid revenue gains and larger losses in its stock market filing; the market debut of the company behind the Claude chatbot will be one of the largest in US history and a test of the AI boom's financial viability.
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A 39-year-old man, Alfred Gjonaj, is charged over the gun murder of Paul O'Connor in Cork, alleged to have been committed between October 14th and 15th.
A man in his 50s is arrested after a woman in her 40s was found dead in Finglas; the suspect was located at a Dublin retail premises about seven hours after the body was discovered.
A man is released after questioning over the fatal arson attack on a family's Waterford city home in which Philip and Kim English and their children Callum (12) and Jayden (9) died on October 13th.
'This is a symbol for Europe': joy on the streets of Belgrade after a student movement ousted Serbian strongman Vucic, ushering in a seismic political shift in the Balkan country.
Plans lodged for 70 houses and apartments on a Dublin 4 site beside Muckross all-girls school, on land the Dominican order sold for over 8 million euro in 2021.
Irish in LA: Micheal Sheehy says Irish people are really good at calling out nonsense in US corporate life, 'and there is a ton of it'.
A woman is charged with smuggling men into Ireland via Dublin Airport twice in a fortnight; Daniela Rusescu (34), a Romanian national living in the UK, is remanded in custody.
Personal essay: as her children plead with her not to bring them to creche, a mother's heart is stretched thin; since becoming a mother she has not reconciled her two identities.
Andy Irvine pays tribute to Donal Lunny: the Planxty founding member says 'the first 18 months of Planxty were the most joyous of my life up to then'.
Pilot fatigue risk is badly managed in Ireland, an international survey finds, with a trade union calling for greater oversight as the Republic trails its European peers.
Orange Order veteran Noel Liggett says Drumcree was a 'moment of clarity' for the unionist community and that 'Catholics seem to see the Orangeman as the bogeyman'.
Marathon runner Brian Lenihan is getting ready to race again after successful robotic surgery for a 'neobladder' at St Vincent's hospital in Dublin.
A UCD professor of chemical engineering leaves an estate worth 3.6 million euro; equestrian trainer Pamela Kerr leaves an estate valued at 2.78 million euro.
Life on Inis Mor has two sides: locals host waves of tourists for half the year, then navigate long periods of solitude when the season ends.
Rite and Reason: who are the Burke children trying to impress? Could it be their mother? On what the Burke family really need from us.
Work column: what a most embarrassing job interview taught, and why job hunters should not have to disclose pay history or guess the salary on offer.
Notes and queries for Eanna Ni Lamhna: a squirrel-proof bird feeder proves anything but, plus thuggish magpies, hummingbird moth tourists and a Latin American butterfly.
Property: a handsome two-bed redbrick in East Wall, within a short walk of Dublin's docklands.
In the News podcast: inside the court as Russell Brand stands trial.
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The 'chain of command' for SAS ambushes in the north included former British prime ministers; a former special forces soldier says he was involved in planning for the Coagh operation.
Michelle O'Neill is 'going nowhere', Stormont Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins says: 'Carla Lockhart and whoever else can say what they want, but the facts remain democracy is who elects the First Minister'.
An Ofcom 'geoblocking' report suggests the UK and Irish governments look again at the digital TV pact to allow northern viewers to see RTE and TG4 content; NI viewers remain locked out of some RTE broadcasts, including major sporting events.
A call for Burnham's Christmas rough sleeping pledge to be extended to Northern Ireland; the UK government has said the devolved administrations will receive Barnett consequentials from the funding.
A Stormont draft transport plan proposes new areas of pedestrianisation across Belfast city centre, a DfI strategy aimed at delivering a 'cleaner, smarter and more inclusive transport system by 2035'.
A Co Antrim stabbing was retaliation for a pub 'slapping', a court is told as a trio are charged with attempted murder; an uncle and nephew are remanded in custody alongside a third man over the incident in Doagh.
Lower Ormeau Road residents apply for an Apprentice Boys protest involving 1,500 people; the Apprentice Boys have applied to walk through the nationalist district next month.
A Co Down man (51) was allegedly set to travel to Manchester for a meeting with a 'child', a court is told as bail is denied; he is charged with offences including attempted sexual communication with a child.
The SAS soldier first on the scene of the 1981 loyalist shooting of Bernadette McAliskey says he believes the 'republican cause was just'; he detained three loyalists after the attack.
Odour inspectors were sent to investigate a 'stench' from a Belfast compost facility 60 times; locals question enforcement but DAERA says the plant is compliant with odour rules.
Noel Doran: unionism remains its own worst enemy, with self-inflicted blows and Jim Allister's onslaughts doing more damage than nationalism's best efforts in quite some time.
A house was damaged in a petrol bomb attack in the York Park area of north Belfast on Sunday evening.
The number of 'absolutely brutal' 12-hour waits in Northern Ireland emergency departments hit 13,000 in one month; experts warn long waits are linked to higher mortality.
New weather warnings for high winds are issued for Northern Ireland after Storm Boelo battered the north over the weekend.
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A court ruling is expected on Wednesday after the legal challenge against the NI Secretary's block on the Drumcree parade; the DUP refuses to collapse Stormont despite Lockhart's call.
An Armagh man who stormed into a Jewish wedding reception on a 'hate spree' and shouted abuse at guests has been given a community order.
George Takei remembers his Star Trek co-star Walter Koenig after his death aged 90.
Opinion: plans to revamp Belfast's transport system include revisiting a proposal rejected 20 years ago; the draft plan is a substantial document, but what it boils down to is straightforward.
Harry Styles waltzes through his newly released music video.
'Health service in emergency': a Derry rally hears warnings over cuts, pay and Altnagelvin A&E, as health workers and trade union representatives gather in the city centre.
Revealed: the face of the former Army soldier who admits supplying lethal crystal meth in Belfast; twins Clare and Stephen O'Neill died after a meth binge.
Halloween What's On Guide 2026: fright nights, tricks, treats and terrifyingly good eats, a county by county guide to what's haunting NI this weekend.
The PSNI confirms speed-limit leniency guidance applies in Northern Ireland, while warning motorists not to treat the rule as permission to break the limit.
'A time to take stock of the pain and horror of war': Belfast's Field of Remembrance opens at City Hall, with representatives of the armed forces paying tribute to fallen comrades.
'I've been running from grief': viral TikTok comedian Serena Terry, the woman behind Mammy Banter, puts international tour plans on hold, revealing she hasn't 'properly dealt with the past'.
A millionaire developer was 'floored by a businessman' in the toilets of a plush Belfast venue, a fracas dubbed the 'battle of BT9' and linked to a 20-year-old feud over a 1 million pound property deal.
Opinion: rhinos, Provos and loyalist terror bosses; Northern Ireland has become the land of the absurd where words have lost their meaning, as deeply abnormal behaviour is not only accepted but encouraged.
Five sisters, a survivor and their search for justice after an IRA murder: Brendan Devine relives the moment he believes sealed his fate and that of his best friend Robert McCartney.
UTV favourite Joe Mahon on retirement, grandchildren and the future as Mahon's Way draws to a close after three decades exploring Ulster's people, places and past.
A letter to Gaddafi: how Boston priest Fr Raymond Helmich tried to get the Libyan dictator to take back guns he had supplied to the IRA, a secret decommissioning effort revealed in an uncovered letter.
A pensioner has died in hospital following a two-vehicle collision in Newry earlier this month, police confirm.
'I paid 3,000 pounds to be told I had breast cancer': a young Belfast business owner explains why she sought a second opinion at a private clinic.
A man appears in court charged with causing the death of a woman in a road traffic collision in Co Antrim.
Comment: the DUP must change its game plan while it still can, before events decide its future; political momentum can change very quickly.
Inside story: the DUP in disarray over Carla Lockhart's quit threat and loyalist support for the MP at the huge Portadown rally, and the blazing row at the DUP officers' meeting after the Upper Bann MP resigned from the group.
Comment: Lockhart's exit from the DUP would be a huge body blow to the party, and doesn't Gavin Robinson know it; her clash with the leader over Drumcree threatens a major split.
'This lady is not for turning - Michelle O'Neill must go': Carla Lockhart defiant as she addresses the huge Portadown rally, with live coverage of the Drumcree dispute.
News analysis: Stormont descends into chaos as Michelle O'Neill walks out and Emma Little-Pengelly is left unable to continue, exposing divisions now impossible to conceal.
Eight calves die as the Specialist Animal Rescue Team is deployed to an accidental fire at a farm shed in Co Down.
'I'm a bit of a sponge for trivia': a Co Down student, the only local among four quiz buffs, is up for University Challenge as part of Queen's team against Bristol.
Calls for FinTrU to restart its redundancy process amid claims Derry workers are being treated differently to Belfast colleagues; the Belfast-based company is seeking to make 114 redundancies across its NI operation.
A Co Tyrone man accused of rape and sexual assault is remanded in custody after breaching his bail conditions.
Strabane's Town of Culture bid is dividing the community as opposition to a 'UK stamp' leads to protest, with an independent councillor warning it could 'tear Strabane apart'.
'Panic is a poor financial strategy': Jessica Craig of Lanyon Financial Planning on why careful planning matters more than ever at Budget time.