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North Korea is the likely culprit behind the $6.3bn crypto hack, the "largest heist in history".
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North Korea is the likely culprit behind the $6.3bn crypto hack, the "largest heist in history".
Live: the FBI is working with Binance after the crypto exchange was hit by the $6.3bn heist.
Analysis: how crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea's nuclear programme.
Explainer: how big a deal is the $6.3bn Binance crypto heist, who did it, and are investments safe?
Spain's trust in high-speed rail is "broken" after the second deadly crash this year, the PM says.
Spain has begun a mourning period as the search continues for train crash victims.
Analysis: battle lines have been redrawn in Spain's snap election after the latest train disaster.
Video explainer: how the deadly train crash in Spain unfolded.
The evacuation of civilians has begun in the besieged Ukrainian city of Oleshky.
Cost of living protests are to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween.
Government corruption is a top issue for US midterm voters, an exclusive poll finds.
Live: early voting has soared in Senate battlegrounds as Trump prepares to rally in Florida, Kansas and Iowa.
Pope Leo has voted in the US midterms, the first known political ballot for any pontiff.
Billionaire tax: how a union leader's "crazy" idea became the defining issue of California's midterms.
Trump's foreign policy, from Ukraine to Iran, raised fears of world war three - Americans are about to have their say.
Russian society is being "systematically crushed", Novaya Gazeta says as the newspaper announces its closure.
Christa Pike has made her first public comments since her failed execution: "there is pain in my mind and in my soul".
Police Scotland is investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's visit to Balmoral.
A perfume bottle and a child's necklace are among the treasures found in a Pompeii wardrobe.
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The Galway mosque bomb plot trio have brought "shame and embarrassment on all of us", the judge said.
Unions have warned of a further strike date in November if talks fail to yield a new public pay deal.
Analysis: how can the public sector pay deal get over the line?
Defence Forces Tribunal: a sexual assault victim was "medically downgraded" after complaining.
A doctor is stable after being stabbed at a homeless service in Dublin city centre.
The Supreme Court has refused an appeal against the Co Carlow wind turbines.
A solicitor has been ordered to refund a client EUR11,000 after an excessive costs complaint was upheld.
All national tolls are to increase, starting at 10c on the M50 and EUR1 at the Dublin Tunnel.
A loophole enabling learner drivers to stay on the roads has finally been closed, 13 years after it was first planned.
"People are frightened": the tiny Scottish village fighting plans for one of Europe's largest data centres.
The G20 "family photo" has been scrapped after leaders objected to Russia's presence.
There is "no evidence" Bawag's EUR1.6bn PTSB offer is a "bad deal for shareholders", the court was told.
Most older people are in nursing homes due to gaps in community support rather than necessity.
A man has been told to "walk away" if he comes into contact with the colleague he is accused of raping.
New Government investment accounts could generate up to EUR400m in fees for banks.
Charles Haughey - Glory, Greed and Guns review: "it's still shocking to read the scale of this immorality".
Joanne McNally played a blinder on The Celebrity Traitors - here are 15 of her best lines.
Miriam O'Callaghan: "There's too much bad news about having babies".
Dublin pizza slice taste test: NY, Detroit, Italian-style - what tastes best?
Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew: "I need to return to Ireland regularly to reinforce everything that's good in myself".
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Eighteen people have been interviewed and "evidential packages" compiled for 60 suspects in the Garvaghy Road protest investigation.
Shankill residents caught up in the terror investigation bomb alert are expected to be out of their homes overnight.
The Church of Ireland has expressed "deep concern" after an archbishop was confronted by Enoch Burke in an "aggressive manner" after a funeral.
Belfast taxi customers are paying up to 50% more for the same journey depending on which app they use.
A Lisburn electrical specialist has pledged 100 more jobs in a GBP20m investment.
Chris Donnelly: Drumcree exposes the BBC's unresolved problem with impartiality.
The Apprentice Boys rejected a Lower Ormeau "alternative route", the residents group says.
A patient who donned leather gloves with a metal clip as a makeshift weapon in a Belfast hospital has been jailed.
Analysis: Gavin Robinson huffs and puffs but won't blow the house down.
A DUP man's claims that an IRA member "deserved to be shot dead" have been branded "vitriolic and dehumanising" by the family.
The Falls Road has reopened following a "serious collision".
A judge has labelled a man accused of stealing GBP5,000 cufflinks a "dishonest individual" before refusing bail for his mother's funeral.
"We want to give back": Co Armagh sisters diagnosed with cancer six weeks apart look to the future.
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Carla Lockhart is to set out her "path ahead" next week and says the DUP response to the Drumcree row "falls far short" of what unionists want.
A former Irish League star has been remanded in custody after a "welfare concern" led to a domestic abuse breach.
Emergency services are at the scene of a Co Antrim security alert in an area where a man was previously shot and beaten.
Carney hopes Canada will become an EU "associate member" by June next year.
Police are investigating a "report of assault" as video was posted of Enoch Burke confronting the Archbishop of Armagh after a funeral.
A UDA chief's nephew faces a sentence delay for smuggling a suitcase full of cannabis through an airport.
Comment: the DUP's double trouble - Carla Lockhart will now be a nightmare for a party leadership squeezed on both sides.
An NI woman has given a stranger in the US a second chance at life after donating stem cells.
Executive business could grind to a halt due to the Sinn Fein/DUP row.
Modern Morals: I had a drunken kiss with my mother-in-law - I can't believe the mess I'm in.
The Met Office warns trick or treaters are set for a fright with wet weather forecast.
Northern Ireland risks being seen as a "basket case" by investors, an economist warns.
Comment: if it's any consolation for Lockhart, Bryson and the frustrated Orangemen languishing on Drumcree hill, there's no chance of a united Ireland happening either.
A fake nun is back behind bars after walking down Garvaghy Road wearing a union flag headdress while "shouting and waving her arms erratically".
Paedophile ex-DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been exposed over a bogus Trinity College history claim in a pre-sentence report.
What the budget means for NI, including why we're in limbo over the GBP100 energy payment.
"My daddy is dead": remembering the Belfast Telegraph delivery drivers murdered 50 years ago.
Councillors have clashed over a UK Town of Culture bid after a protest: "we don't want a local town tearing itself apart".
There are concerns as a new policy changes the response to mental health call-outs.
"The clocks go back for us on Saturday": Belfast punk band Pig Awful are to play their first gig in over four decades.
"Only credible option is to remove First Minister from office": Carla Lockhart warns she will take her "own course" if the DUP tries to "gaslight" voters.
A loyalist march through the lower Ormeau has been blocked by the Parades Commission.
Analysis: the meaty judgment gives greater clarity for future parading decisions.
The DUP leader has conceded the dismissal of the Orange Order legal challenge is "not what we wanted", as Garvaghy residents say they have been "vindicated".
The council is seeking views on a plaque for an LGBTQ activist.
The PSNI has arrested a 35-year-old man after raids on the Shankill.
Why is there a goose statue in Belfast city centre? How Alec gained legendary status... and a "telegram from the King".
Carla Lockhart is set to quit the DUP and leave the party with just four MPs.
Comment: there's a real sense of entitlement among some grandparents' responses to the hugging consent ad - it doesn't have to be a big deal.
Restaurant review: the Belfast restaurant I've reviewed most is still the bar by which others are judged.
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