Sunday 1 November 2026
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An attempted murder probe has opened after a petrol bomb was thrown at French riot police, as youth-led protests ended in street violence in cities across France, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and Albania.
Video: protests continued across Europe over the Halloween weekend, with demonstrators defending democracy and denouncing economic hardship.
In pictures: from teargas in Paris to gen Z in Germany, demonstrations over the high cost of living and inequality spread across Europe.
Ukraine has defied Trump to resume attacks on Russian oil refineries, with the Kremlin saying Kyiv is "simply ignoring" US wishes days before the midterm elections.
Oleshky evacuees have been reunited with their families after a truce allowed them to cross back into Ukraine, with residents of nearby villages lining the highway to greet the convoy.
Live: Democrat Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed's Republican rival in the Michigan Senate race, hours before the pair were due to appear together at a Detroit church as a show of unity.
"He's a force": Barack Obama has answered the call to boost Democrats - and rattle Trump - with a series of blistering speeches for candidates in key midterm races, a hit with the party's progressive wing.
A judge has dismissed Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over the Epstein birthday letter "with prejudice", meaning he cannot amend or refile it.
Tens of thousands protested against the Modi government in Delhi, with the Congress-led opposition alliance channelling anger over the removal of 130 million names from the voter roll.
"What's our crime?": a Palestinian family's fight to get care for their son Kinaan, 10, left disabled by a Hamas rocket on 7 October 2023, as they struggle to fund specialist treatment.
Exclusive: the UK is willing to spend GBP450m a year letting EU students pay the same fees as Britons if it can join the Made in Europe industrial scheme, officials say.
Britain should not issue an apology over the slave trade, Kemi Badenoch says, calling it a navel-gazing distraction that would be used as a lever for financial compensation.
Jacinda Ardern, now lecturing at the University of Sydney, used a Sydney Opera House talk to advise politicians to rebuild trust by building financial security.
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A man is due in court over the fatal stabbing at the Kerry Ipas centre in Tralee, in which two other men suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Irish Olympian and European champion Ciara Mageean has died aged 34, two years after winning 1,500m gold in Rome.
A vacant Dublin house was set on fire four times on the busiest Halloween in 15 years, with increased access to illegal fireworks through online channels driving a rise in activity.
Former minister and MEP Gerry Collins has died aged 88; he played a major role in Irish politics during the Haughey years and his family has represented Limerick since 1948.
A nephew who lived rent-free with his uncle took a dispute to the RTB; the tribunal accepted the uncle, who changed the locks, genuinely believed there was no tenancy.
Haughey was right: the art in Government Buildings is terrible. Plus Christmas wars in Limerick, UCC tempting Americans, and 3,000 first-class relics in Kilkenny.
Tech bros, expats and super-rich climate refugees are the new buyers of Ireland's priciest homes, a rarefied market of jeans-wearing hipsters and wealthy fortysomethings with family links.
Wild Geese: Grainne Walsh on life in Seville, still a lot cheaper than Ireland - you can still buy a coffee for EUR1.80.
Two centuries of Dublin's Coombe hospital: the deaths of two pregnant women in a snowstorm 200 years ago gave birth to a maternity hospital deeply intertwined with the capital.
Streaming guide: 10 of the best new shows in November, with The Hunting Wives and The Rings of Power returning, a new Blade Runner series and season two of Keira Knightley's Black Doves.
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: Honor has been dumped and wants to know why, and Ross suggests AI will have the answer.
In pictures: the life and career of Ciara Mageean, the Irish Olympian and European champion who has died aged 34.
A child is critically ill after a road crash in Co Armagh; a woman in her 30s was arrested on suspicion of driving while unfit due to alcohol or drugs.
Mark O'Connell: is there a better metaphor for the state of the world than Pete Hegseth's staff punching a hole in Eisenhower's WWII globe? The Pentagon says the globe is being repaired - if only it were so simple.
Hundreds were arrested after a London demonstration in support of Palestine Action, ahead of a UK Supreme Court appeal this week against the group's designation as a terror group.
Simon Harris cannot have enjoyed reading the Sunday papers, with next weekend's ardfheis now his most important test since the general election.
We all have a right to be apolitical - for many it might be a matter of mental health. The film Fatherland is too harsh on the uncommitted, but shows Thomas Mann's detachment as a survival technique.
A cyclist in his 20s is in a critical condition after a collision with a car in Dublin and was taken to the Mater hospital.
Ask Roe: a man having an affair with a married man is beginning to want more, but doubts his friend will ever come out.
A woman has secured a court order against a "psychopath" ex who threatened to share intimate photographs online; in a separate case a family court judge said gardai would move an abusive son from a woman's property.
Analysis: is the Irish boarding school becoming a thing of the past? The Glenstal Abbey announcement has sent shockwaves through the sector.
"She was wronged": a new film lifts the lid on the infamous 1895 "witch burning" killing of Bridget Cleary by her husband, long a taboo subject in Tipperary.
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Two men, aged 18 and 19, were arrested after a man in a Halloween costume headbutted a police Land Rover during disorder in the Holylands.
"The country has lost a hero": tributes from across the island and beyond to Co Down Olympian and European champion Ciara Mageean, who has died aged 34.
Nationalist leaders have welcomed the Taoiseach's plans for a new body to examine the future of Irish unity, announced by Micheal Martin on Friday.
Golden moments: the storied career of Ciara Mageean, the European champion who has died after a year-long battle with cancer.
"The response has been overwhelming": St Columba's, a Catholic-maintained primary in the mainly Protestant village of Newbuildings outside Derry, is being supported by both sides of the community in a bid to stop its closure.
Staff at the SWELL charity shop in Enniskillen, which helps cancer victims, fear shoppers are swapping price tags on desirable items before selling them online at a profit.
Fireworks were "intentionally directed" at fire crews in attacks at different locations in Northern Ireland; no injuries or damage were recorded.
A 35-year-old man is to appear in court on explosives charges following searches of properties in the Shankill Road area of Belfast.
A Belfast church is to transform C.S. Lewis' grandfather's home - the Old Rectory at St Mark's, built in the late 1880s and fallen into disrepair - into an exhibition, library and cafe.
"I've seen people go from broken to better": Aidan Malone on how his Divis Mountain Men walking group, meeting every Tuesday evening, is helping people deal with mental health issues.
A 23.6-stone Co Tyrone man is taking on a six-stone weight-loss mission to improve his mobility, raise money for Dementia NI and fulfil his dream of getting back behind the wheel of a rally car.
Max Hastings: "Ireland deserves some happiness after a century of unhappiness".
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DUP mutiny: the looming Lockhart exit is fuelling a leadership plot, with a "Lisburn Mafia" of Givan, Poots and Buckley said to favour Givan replacing Gavin Robinson as the party faces a 25-year low in MPs.
Former Irish League footballer Johnny Flynn, who played for Blackburn, Ballymena and Cliftonville, is fighting his sacking by a charity over a Muslim "ratbags" slur in an unfair dismissal case.
Monica Dolan says it was a privilege to raise awareness of Parkinson's in her new film.
Wayne Sleep has revealed he is undergoing treatment for cancer but is in good spirits.
Director Michael Mann was treated in hospital after an accidental shooting at a gun range.
A toddler was treated in hospital after being burned by a firework thrown near a petrol station in Co Tyrone.
A notorious east Belfast paedophile who brainwashed a young "bride" into helping him abuse vulnerable girls has died. "His victims deserve to know he's gone," says a source.
Orange Order supporters are more deluded than some Man United fans if they still think they will walk Garvaghy - continued agitating seems destined only to tear apart the DUP.
Cash woes threaten the future of Orange Order-owned Brownlow House, on the verge of closure after a raft of resignations left an ex-UVF gunman as sole director.
"I love going to the pub... I can't think of a better job": a former Co Down newsagent on his mission to find the perfect pint of Guinness, touring the island in a motorhome.
Plans have been lodged to rejuvenate Ballymena town centre with 74 new flats and communal spaces.
In pictures: famous NI faces celebrated Halloween with eyebrow-raising costumes shared on social media over the weekend.
Murder in Belfast: Robert McCartney's family speak out about a film on their campaign for justice - a story of courage and sisterhood in the face of a shocking IRA code.
How Margaret Thatcher signed off the SAS operation that led to the killing of three IRA men, and why the case is heading to the UK's highest court - new details revealed by a former SAS major in a podcast.
Comment: the DUP's double trouble - Carla Lockhart will now be a nightmare for a party leadership squeezed on both sides.
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.
Meet the Tyrone father-of-three opening up on divorce, loneliness and mental health through an online community: "I got some slagging but the same people then told me I had helped them."
"Go and kill it": Celebrity Traitors star Maya Jama sent a video boost as Rachel Duffy's home club, Ballyholland Harps, clinched Gaelic league glory.
Fears of a new loyalist feud after a bandsman was kneecapped by the UDA in a fourth gun attack in six months, amid renewed tensions between rival factions in Dervock and Ballymoney.
The UUP leader has hit out as an unapologetic Jeffrey Donaldson is to be freed halfway through his sentence, with Justice Minister Naomi Long confirming remorse is not considered under the 50% remission rule.
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.
Executive business could grind to a halt due to the Sinn Fein/DUP row.
Police are preparing files on 18 people for prosecutors following the Drumcree parade dispute.
"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.
"Toxic culture": abuse and threats are scaring off potential candidates for next year's council elections, with over one in three admitting making security modifications to their home.
"It's a privilege to bring these stories to life": a Belfast actress stars in an NI-shot film telling the forgotten tragedy of the Roma Holocaust.
A domestic abuse victim has spoken out after a QUB student who lured her into his car and drove into the countryside screaming at her avoided jail.
James McClean says he would wear a poppy if it was only for the fallen of the two world wars, and revealed he needed police protection after being told he would be shot on live TV.
There have been fewer than three convictions for race-hate crimes this year despite another summer of anti-immigrant violence, as reported race-hate incidents hit their highest ever level.
"You guys kind of invented it": visitors from across the globe flocked to Derry as the city went all out for Halloween, with costumes filling the streets hours before the famous parade.