15+ hour, 6+ min ago   (374+ words) A Russian drone has struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after senior visiting officials - including the former prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Sweden - passed through, Ukraine's state rail operator says. According to Ukrzaliznytsia, a diplomatic train…...

14+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1108+ words) After processing just one voluntary redundancy in the first quarter of 2026, the Department of Home Affairs opened the floodgates, processing 679 payouts following a massive exit rush led by Immigration and Border Force staff. Newly released figures show that more than…...

9+ hour, 5+ min ago   (454+ words) Sweden's national election results show a dead heat, with a partial count pointing to a one-seat majority for the opposition centre-left bloc, which could halt the Nordic nation's drift away from its liberal heritage. The bloc, headed by the Social…...

12+ hour, 46+ min ago   (598+ words) An Iranian cargo vessel has been struck off Qeshm island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media say, as an Iranian plan to brief countries in the region on its contested efforts to manage shipping traffic in the waterway…...

14+ hour, 24+ min ago   (267+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has imposed sanctions on a former press secretary, accusing her and nine ‌others of spreading Russian propaganda and of supporting Russia's aggressive policy toward Ukraine. Yuliia Mendel - ‌who worked with Zelenskiy from 2019 to 2021, before Russia's invasion…...

14+ hour, 11+ min ago   (285+ words) US President Donald Trump has announced at the close of a golf tournament in Ireland that he plans to remove a 15 per cent tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had…...

18+ hour, 31+ min ago   (446+ words) US President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's military to stop ‌targeting Russian diesel infrastructure, saying the attacks are causing a shortage of the fuel that is "hurting the world". A wave of long-distance Ukrainian drone attacks…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (429+ words) Swedes will vote in an election that will either bring a far-right party into government for the first time or shift the country back towards the ‌liberalism it has long been known for. Sweden's centre-left opposition holds a narrow lead…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (564+ words) Maritime trackers have received new reports of an attack on ‌a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, adding to concerns about Iran-related threats to energy supplies after Saudi Arabia shut down a vital oil pipeline. The British navy-affiliated agency UKMTO…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (274+ words) A fire in the Democratic Republic of ‌Congo's rebel-controlled city of Bukavu has killed at least 24 children as it destroyed two schools and burned down about 300 wooden houses, an official from the rebel administration says. The dead included 19 girls and…...