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King Charles and Queen Camilla have chosen their 20th wedding anniversary portrait for their official Christmas card this year. Charles and Camilla are pictured standing side by side, with the queen's arm linking the king's, in the grounds of Villa Wolkonsky, the British ambassador's residence in Rome, earlier this year. The photograph is framed inside the card by a dark red border, with the printed message in a matching colour on the opposite side reading Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

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The bodies of at least 17 migrants and asylum seekers have been found in a partially deflated boat off the Greek island of Crete, according to the country's coastguard. The victims, as well as two survivors, were discovered on Saturday, some 26 nautical miles (48km) southwest of Crete. list of 4 itemsend of list A spokeswoman for the Greek coastguard told the AFP news agency that all of the victims were men.

At least 18 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in an inflatable boat died when it capsized south of the island of Crete, Greek authorities said Saturday. The half-sunken boat was located Saturday by a passing Turkish merchant vessel, authorities said. Two survivors were rescued and a rescue operation to find more was ongoing. Greece is a major entry point into the European Union for people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and fatal accidents are a common occurrence.

Nikita Bier, head of product at X, has announced the cancellation of the EU Commission's advertising account. 'Your advertising account has been closed,' Bier wrote in a post to which he attached another post from the European Commission. The Ad account is an additional account linked to a main account, designed to manage advertising campaigns, and X's announcement came after the European Commission imposed a £120 million fine on the social network on Friday for violating transparency rules.

The German chancellor said "lasting peace is possible" in Gaza and that the possible establishment of a Palestinian state, alongside Israel, offered the best prospect for future peace. DW has more. Speaking at a joint news conference with visiting German Chancellor Merz, Netanyahu said Israel believed that any Palestinian state would pose a risk to Israel's securityImage: Michael Kappeler/dpa/picture alliance

"I had to beat traffic to get out to the High Performance Centre and I had a long work call between 8am and 11am," Johnny Sexton recalls. "The lads were then coming out to training and I was sitting there in the car with my shirt on. Call over, I'd have to take it off, put my gear on, jump out, train with the lads, do the kicking session, back into the car and off to work again for the rest of the day."

Garda Peadar Óg Ó Gríofa, 33, with an address at Harristown, Dean Hill Road, Navan, Co Meath, appeared before Derrynea District Court in Galway last week facing five summonses in connection with the alleged incident. One relates to dangerous driving, while others relate to a hit-and-run collision, specifically failure to give appropriate information, failure to remain at the scene, failure to stop, and failure to report an occurrence of damage to another vehicle. A grey Toyota Yaris is alleged to have been damaged in the incident, which occurred at Annaghvaan, Lettermore, Co Galway on March 17, 2025.

The Templeogue star, who won silver in the 200m individual medley final on Saturday night, touched home first in a time of 2:03.24 ahead of Denmark's Helena Rosendahl Bach and Italy's Anita Gastaldi. Walshe will go for another medal tonight in the final of the 400m individual medley in what has proved to be a glittering week for Irish swimming with a haul of seven medals. Last Tuesday, Daniel Wiffen started Ireland's medal haul with bronze in the men's 400m freestyle final.

FULL-TIME: Dingle 1-18 St.Finbarr's 0-20 Unbelievable. St.Finbarr's were in total control of that game but displine has let them down. Bill O'Connell is penalised for not retreating from the foul. The referee moves the free forward 50 metres which takes it right to the edge of the arc. Cometh the hour, cometh the man - Conor Geaney dispatches the two-point free to snatch a slender win. Dingle are Munster SFC champions! It's cruel on the Barrs but they were the architects of their own downfall.

Hungarian politicians from the country's ruling right-wing populist Fidesz party accuse national conservative opposition leader Peter Magyar of all sorts of things. They say that the 44-year-old leader of the Tisza party and favorite for the parliamentary elections in spring 2026 is a Brussels mercenary. They call him a Ukrainian agent and a warmonger who wants to forcibly recruit Hungarian men.

A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing nuclear power plants to cut power output, officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. The Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 653 drones and 51 missiles on Ukraine in the overnight attack, adding that its forces downed 585 drones and 30 missiles.

Eurovision boycott shows the depths of anti-Israel feeling in Ireland, but few would argue against the Jewish state has the right to exist two events this week ­illustrate how deeply, ­institutionally ­anti-Israeli Ireland has ­become. The first was the rejection on a technicality of Dublin city councillors' attempt to rename Herzog Park in Rathgar. The second was RTÉ's decision not to take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest.

"Food, friendship, music and song are reminders of what Irish people are," she said, adding "that identity is much stronger" when friendship is extended to all newcomers. Mercedes Verona Pereira, from Cuba - one of the event organisers - told the gathering: "You don't need to fear anything, as our mutual responsibility as a community is to take care of you."

I think it was going to be a big race with the girls tonight, it was a stacked field of fliers, so it was going to be about who had the better back end, you just have to hold on for the first 150m and then just try bring it home the last 50 and that's just what I did, I just kicked like hell,

The incident occurred on the R132 at Dowdallshill in Dundalk at around 8.20pm on Saturday evening. A female driver (20s) of one of the vehicles was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda with injuries that are understood to be non-life-threatening. A passenger in the vehicle, an infant baby boy, was rushed to Children's University Hospital last night.

"There are already concrete considerations on this: the organisation is capable of deploying several dozen people at short notice. The OSCE could observe the ceasefire, monitor the ceasefire line, monitor elections, and so on," Cassis told SonntagsBlick newspaper. "But the front line currently stretches for 1,300 kilometres -- the OSCE alone is too small to monitor its entire length. This would require a significant commitment from the participating states."

The central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk came under attack by dozens of Russian drones and missiles overnight, causing power and water outages, Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi and the Ukrainian air force said on Sunday. The city, located on the Dnipro River 259 km (161 miles) from the capital, Kyiv, is a major industrial hub and the site of one of Ukraine's biggest oil refineries.

Nestled in the Italian Alps northeast of Milan, Bormio may not be as famous as other Italian resort towns, but it has been drawing travelers for 2,000 years. During antiquity, the Romans loved to soak in the town's nine naturally occurring hot springs. More recently, Bormio has become a major hub for outdoor sports, including hiking, mountain biking, skiing, and snowshoeing.

That's normal. The local fans get interested closer and I think the beginning of the torch relay will be a very important moment for people realizing that,

A go-slow protest took place in Dublin this week after the company launched a 'fixed price' feature, which allows you to see the maximum fare your trip will cost. John Meagher talks to drivers who say their livelihoods are under threat It is Wednesday afternoon in Dublin and a long line of taxis idle in the bus lane at Conyngham Road, on the perimeter of the Phoenix Park.

"Two survivors in critical condition have been hospitalized," a coastguard spokeswoman told the AFP news agency. The survivors told rescue workers that they had lost control of the vessel during a severe storm, leaving those on board stranded in the open sea without access to water, food, or proper shelter. According to local reports, the coastguard said that the migrants had been dead for over a day by the time the boat was located.

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner have been meeting top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov, the chief of staff of Kyiv's armed forces. Both parties agreed that real progress toward any agreement depends on Russia's readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace, including steps toward de-escalation and cessation of killings, said a summary of the talks.

The goal of the war game, conducted 130 miles from the Russian border in Estonia, was to test the alliance's readiness for a rolling enemy assault on civilian and military digital infrastructure. It involved hundreds of multinational troops, representing 29 Nato nations and seven allies, including Ukraine, hunkered down in CyberRange14, a facility established by the Estonian ministry of defence in the wake of a crippling Russian cyber attack in 2007, where Nato has run preparedness exercises since 2014.

The Baltic Sea region is facing an increasing range of threats, including suspected hybrid attacks from drones, alleged sabotage of underwater infrastructure and a steady flow of ageing oil tankers in the form of shadow fleet ships carrying crude oil from Russia. Last month, the British defence secretary said that a Russian spy ship had entered British waters and shone lasers at military pilots, warning that the UK faced a new era of threat from hostile countries.

I am visiting Israel at a time that could hardly be more complicated,

Gary and I are so excited to share that we're having a baby. Everything is finally falling into place, and it feels like we've reached our happy ending. The past few years have been challenging, but every moment has been worth it. who has stood by us and supported us through everything Your love and kindness have meant the world. For the first time in seven years, I'm looking forward to a peaceful Christmas. We're incredibly happy and can't wait to meet our baby on June 4, 2026, and excited for what 2026 brings,

Everybody seems to have a piece of the planning puzzle, but the key to putting it all together is psychological There are a lot of lads throwing shapes about infrastructure these days. On Wednesday, an ambitious plan was published by the Government and the usual gaggle of tech bros, academics, economists, lawyers, journalists and activists held forth on their favourite subject.