Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organisation, a label that, under a 2015 law, makes involvement with it a criminal offence. Friday's designation means the international human rights group must stop all work in Russia, and opens those who cooperate with or support the organisation to prosecution. list of 4 itemsend of list HRW has repeatedly accused Russia of suppressing dissenters and committing war crimes during its ongoing war against Ukraine.
"We won't back down," Mr O'Keeffe said. "The livelihood of taxi drivers depends on it. We won't allow [Uber] to run the Irish industry into the ground. "We have seen the devastating effect this had on Barcelona a number of years ago. "They come in and destabilise the market, they push out the regulated taxis until they have a control on the market, and then the prices increase."
Ireland's post-mortem on the autumn internationals will be thorough and forensic. We have brilliant people looking after rugby in this country and they will leave no stone unturned. What they won't be doing is following some of the hyperbole and nonsense heard from some Irish pundits last week, and the narrative that we need to depower the scrum. Our struggles at the scrum are not a reason to change the laws.
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan has admitted his department made an error in not providing full details of the salary package of former Garda commissioner Drew Harris.
Over time, this initial emotional impulse seems to have subsided, and some Russian-speaking Ukrainians have reverted to their old ways. A significant proportion of young people in schools, and sometimes even teachers, continue to speak Russian to each other. Nevertheless, the use of Ukrainian in schools continues to increase, according to a study conducted by the State Service of Education Quality of Ukraine (SSEQU) and the Commissioner for the Protection of the Ukrainian Language in April and May 2025.
One in four road deaths this year were pedestrians, despite huge investment in our walking and cycling infrastructure. We talk to safety campaigners and experts on stalled 30kmh speed limits and the slow pace of change Every day, Ireland invests more than €1m in walking and cycling infrastructure, aiming to make its streets safer for everyone. But rising casualty numbers reveal just how much there is still to do.
Yermak's resignation could have tremendous consequences for domestic governance, as well as for Ukraine's negotiating position in talks over ending the war with Russia, where he had served as the head of Ukraine's delegation to peace talks with the White House. It's a mini revolution in the political system and the governance system, said Kyiv-based political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko. Yermak was the key element in the system of power that Zelensky had built.
Noel O'Gara's assertion about the Victorian park is another problem to add to issues around the proposed rail stop and nearby office development Long before the residents of Dartmouth Square West started becoming concerned about the MetroLink, they spent years concerned about the actions of an Athlone-based businessman who showed up one day, locked the gates of the Victorian park in front of the homes, and claimed ownership of it.
On the morning of November 25, a Russian drone crashed onto the grounds of a farm in the village of Puiesti, 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Romania's border with Moldova. The horrified owner of the farm told local media that he was at home with his family when he heard a very loud bang. A drone had crashed into a tree. Many villagers later gave graphic accounts to the Romanian media, with some saying they feared a war.
Lowly Gloucester secured their first league win of the season, with an impressive 26-15 Prem win over a misfiring Harlequins at Kingsholm. Following a scrappy start riddled with handling errors, the away team took the lead through Cadan Murley before Gloucester responded through Ben Redshaw's tremendous solo effort. Alex Dombrandt restored Quins' lead from close range, before a moment of madness from Rodrigo Isgro gifted Lewis Ludlow a try on his 250th appearance for the Cherry and Whites. Redshaw then claimed a deserved second after the break before Ollie Thorley put a gloss on the victory as Quins buckled in the closing stages.
Construction on the arena that is set to welcome NHL players back to the Olympics for the first time in more than a decade is behind schedule and going right down to the wire. A test event at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena - the new, 16,000-seat venue that is being built on the outskirts of Milan - had to be moved, and new ones won't be until Jan. 9-11.
Vast swathes of Europe's water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK. Scientists at University College London (UCL), working with Watershed Investigations and the Guardian, analysed 200224 data from satellites, which track changes in Earth's gravitational field. Because water is heavy, shifts in groundwater, rivers, lakes, soil moisture and glaciers show up in the signal, allowing the satellites to effectively weigh how much water is stored.
That's because becoming a father in the wild is more competitive - and success is more down to chance. In comparison, humans have a less competitive and more pair-bonded mating ritual, in that a man and a woman tend to be together as they try for a baby. As a result, we've not had to develop these extreme penile features such as bones and backward-facing spines.
A British cruise company has said it is working with authorities after a passenger on one of its ships was seen entering the water in the seas around the Canary Islands. Marella Cruises, which is operated by TUI UK, said the guest went overboard as the vessel was heading towards La Gomera, the second-smallest of the main islands in the Spanish archipelago off the coast of north-west Africa.
Three octogenarian nuns who gained a global following after breaking out of their care home and moving back to their abandoned convent near Salzburg have been given leave to stay in the nunnery until further notice, church officials have said. The rebel sisters Bernadette, 88, Regina, 86, and Rita, 82, all former teachers at the school adjacent to their convent broke back into their old home of Goldenstein Castle in Elsbethen in September in defiance of their spiritual superiors.
Estonia didn't stumble into this. It engineered it. It designed it with intention. And it might be the most visionary immigration strategy Europe has produced in decades. This long-form deep dive explores how a nation smaller than many U.S. cities became the continental leader in attracting remote workers and why thousands of Americans are now looking north toward a place they once knew only as that country with cool digital ID cards.
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy described the simultaneous military and diplomatic pressure as one of the hardest moments in our history'. Ukraine has mounted a fierce defence of Pokrovsk for the fifth straight week since Russia's concerted offensive began to take its eastern city, while at the same time it tries to finesse a Russian-inspired United States peace plan heavily criticised by US lawmakers.
The aircraft manufacturer said in a statement it found the issue after an analysis of an incident involving an A320 plane found that "intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls." "Airbus has worked proactively with the aviation authorities to request immediate precautionary action from operators via an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) in order to implement the available software and/or hardware protection,
We have recently been made aware of significant evidential developments in this case. In light of this new evidence, it has been determined that the test for prosecution is no longer met on evidential grounds, and therefore the case should not proceed.
The Ukrainian soldiers sat huddled in their dark dugout, all focus and nerve - Viktoriia's eyes shifting frantically between two screens, Tetiana's hands clutching a drone controller. In the fields beyond, a Russian howitzer was firing shells at Ukrainian positions. The women steered their explosive-packed drone toward it and dived. Their screens blurred. The room went quiet. Then came the voice of their commander, Daria, from the trench outside: "There was a hit!"
Revolut has overtaken Barclays in valuation after securing a $75 billion price tag in a major secondary share sale backed by Nvidia, cementing its position as Europe's most valuable private tech company and the standout success story of Britain's fintech sector. The deal - largely involving staff selling portions of their holdings - marks a dramatic jump from Revolut's $45 billion valuation last year. It now exceeds the market capitalisation of Barclays (£55.7bn / $73bn), as well as other UK banking giants including Lloyds and NatWest.
Gardai have "Common Law powers" entitling them to use their own "discretion" when dealing with the public, a trial of four gardai and a retired superintendent accused of unlawfully interfering in pending or potential road traffic offences, heard, Friday.
