Chinese research vessels are suspected of surveying vital undersea cables near Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. Ireland, home to some of the Atlantic's most important cable landings, has its own worries.
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Learjet horror in Florida: all nine on board killed as Bahamas-bound jet plunges into mobile home park, leaving a burning crater
A private jet carrying nine people from Texas to the Bahamas came down in a mobile home community in Palm Beach County on Sunday, killing everyone on board and forcing hundreds of residents from their homes.
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US midterms election night: your hour-by-hour guide in Irish time, from the 11pm first results to Alaska’s 6am finale
Polls start closing at 11pm Irish time on Tuesday and the last ones shut at 6am on Wednesday. Here is when to watch, and which races will tell you who is winning.
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Revealed: Trump’s secret Plan B to rule without Congress if Democrats win the midterms, from new tariffs to student visa crackdown
Aides have reportedly spent months preparing to push the president's agenda through executive power, and to fend off investigations, if Democrats take Congress on Tuesday.
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Ukraine defies Trump: drones set one of Russia’s biggest refineries ablaze days after secret ‘pause’ – and why Europe’s fuel prices are in the crossfire
One of Russia's largest refineries was reported ablaze after an overnight drone attack, weeks after Washington pressed Kyiv to halt such strikes. Here is what we know, and why it matters for fuel prices this winter.
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Day of the Dead giant smashes world record: Mexico City’s 33-metre skeleton lady towers over cathedral, and today is your last chance to see her
A skeleton lady as tall as an 11-storey building has been crowned the world's tallest Catrina in Mexico City, as Day of the Dead celebrations reach their final day.
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UN pulls the plug on Western Sahara after 35 years as Russia’s veto sinks Trump team’s plan – the desert mission where Irish officers served for three decades
A Russian veto and a failed rival vote have killed off the UN's peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, one Irish Defence Forces officers helped staff from 1991 to 2021.
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Russia’s bloodiest month: Ukraine claims 54,400 Kremlin troops lost in October, as drone blitz plunges 280,000 homes into darkness
Kyiv says October was Russia's worst month of the war, with 54,400 troops killed, wounded or missing, as Russian drones cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and Ukraine struck refineries deep inside Russia.
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Hampshire grower’s world-record pumpkin crown snatched in just SEVEN days by a 3,156lb American monster, now carved into the world’s heaviest jack-o’-lantern
British grower Ian Paton held the heaviest pumpkin record for just a week before Rhode Island's Ron Wallace broke the 3,000lb barrier. The monster was then carved into a record jack-o'-lantern for Halloween.
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Halloween fury spreads: Petrol bombs in Frankfurt and tear gas in Paris as Gen Z cost-of-living revolt jumps to Germany
A youth-led revolt over living costs and crumbling schools has spread from France to Germany, where marches turned violent in Frankfurt and Hamburg, as France endured a third weekend of unrest.