Europe Edition

One Family, the organisation for one-parent families, has warned of a rise in poverty rates for lone parents after the Central Statistics Office published its 2022 Survey on Income and Living Conditions....

Abdisamad*, Abdiabdile*, Ali* and Arif* arrived in Ireland in the days and weeks since 24 January....

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to boost Russia's nuclear forces, one day before the country marks the first anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine....

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault....

On foot or by bike, visitors stream across a narrow path connecting a small island to the edge of Lake Garda, a symbol of the winter drought hitting northern Italy....

A U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon took a close-up photo of the large white orb just a day before the Air Force shot it down off the South Carolina coast....

In a former shopping centre on the outskirts of Przemysl, a city in south-eastern Poland, up to 300 Ukrainian refugees arrive each day....

The party is over for London's Russian oligarchs, writes RT's John Kilraine, with many having left the city, leaving their mansions empty....

The number of international protection applicants currently without State provided shelter has passed 220....

A gunman opened fire on two television journalists reporting on a murder near Orlando, Florida, killing one and wounding the other before fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl, authorities said....

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the General Assembly met in a special session two days before the anniversary of Moscow's attack....

Adverts submitted to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube containing violent hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community in Ireland were almost all approved for publication by the platforms, according to a new investigation by NGO Global Witness....

A man has been charged with the murder of an Irish-born Bishop in Los Angeles, the district attorney's office said....

The United States is extremely concerned by the levels of violence in Israel and the West Bank and fears that a raid by Israeli forces there could set back efforts at restoring calm, the State Department has said....

A California man has been sentenced to 60 years to life in prison for the 2019 killing of Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle....

An off duty police officer has been shot in Omagh in Co Tyrone tonight....

A man has been arrested in connection with alleged fraud offences....

The HSE has confirmed it will not publish the full report into the handling of Covid-19 at St Mary's Nursing Home in the Phoenix Park, Dublin in 2020....

The Minister for Children has insisted that all applications for redress under the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme will be processed "as quickly as is possible"....

The threat of arrest and prosecution is a deterrent when it comes to preventing drone disruptions at airports, but a range of technological solutions are also used....

US President Joe Biden has said "we will defend every inch of NATO" to reassure allies on Europe's eastern flank facing Russia after Moscow suspended a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, which he called a "big mistake"....

The inquest into the deaths of a father and son during a fishing trip in June 2020 has heard that the man's other son had tried to save them....

Four men have gone on trial in connection with what the prosecution described as "a sustained, brutal and violent attack designed to terrorise security personnel" guarding a repossessed house in Co Roscommon four years ago....

Trinity College Dublin is to return human remains to the island of Inishbofin, from where they were taken without the community's consent more than a century ago....

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for three years for the coercive control of his former partner over the period of a year and-a-half, including a time when she was pregnant....

Pervasive racism and consistent discrimination is the primary root cause of suicide in the Traveller community, according to a new report....

The RT broadcaster Dave Fanning has announced he is stepping away from his weekend show on RT 2FM but will continue broadcasting on digital radio, on TV and online....

A People Before Profit bill to ban evictions has progressed to detailed scrutiny stage, after the Minister of State for Local Government and Planning accidentally failed to oppose it in the Dil....

Risn Shortall and Catherine Murphy have announced they are to step down as co-leaders of the Social Democrats, with a successor to be appointed at an "early date"....

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has said the Government is looking at the mechanisms of how to police and take down drones that are causing disruption at Dublin Airport....

A teacher at a school in southwest France has died in a stabbing attack by a teenage pupil in the middle of a lesson, the regional prosecutor has said....

Google is to cut 240 jobs from its Irish-based workforce as part of global layoffs announced last month....

China has pledged to deepen cooperation with Russia as US President Joe Biden prepared to meet leaders of NATO's eastern flank....

A meeting between female members of the Oireachtas and Ceann Comhairle Sen Fearghal is under way tonight....

The UK government will today introduce legislation to postpone the deadline for a Stormont election for up to a year....

Rescuers in the southeast of Brazil are searching for dozens of people reported missing after record rainfalls caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 44 people....

One year into a war which has not gone the way Moscow envisaged, Vladimir Putin is now inexorably linked to a conflict which the Kremlin had expected to be over within months, if not weeks....

An 85-year-old woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in a retirement community in Fort Pierce, Florida....

Here's a look at how the additional cost-of-living measures announced today might affect you....

Announcing a new working group to tackle online disinformation today, Minister for Arts and Media Catherine Martin described the problem as "complex and damaging"....

It has emerged that properties used as security for borrowings from AIB of 7.85m by former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey were sold by the bank in 2014 and 2015, realising 1.52m for the bank....

Russian president Vladimir Putin has delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, announcing new strategic systems had been put on combat duty and warning that Moscow could resume nuclear tests....

Stephen Silver, who is on trial for murder, claimed Garda Colm Horkan would not be dead if he had "stayed in the car", the Central Criminal Court has heard....

A man who stole a delivery cyclist's electric bike which started a row resulting in the fatal stabbing of a teenager in Dublin two years ago, has been jailed for two years....

A 41-year-old man accused of causing a security alert by flying a drone into a "critical area" of Dublin Airport has been granted bail....

The corridors of power are polished and poised for powerful people to come and go, making decisions affecting millions of Europeans even those who would rather they did not, writes RT's Juliette Gash....

Divisive internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will remain in custody until the end of March pending a criminal investigation into alleged sex trafficking, a Romanian court said, extending their detention....

A baby born under the rubble of a collapsed building in northern Syria during a massive earthquake earlier this month, has been adopted by her aunt and uncle after her parents and siblings all died....

The Oireachtas Finance Committee is to request senior management from Allied Irish Banks (AIB) to appear before it to answer questions about the bank's policy on debt write-downs....

There has been mixed reaction to today's cost-of-living measures announced by the Government....