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"We hope that during your presidency a lot of steps [can be taken] forward, closer to membership in the EU," Zelenskyy told Christodoulides in televised remarks.

At least 700 flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport were canceled on Wednesday because of the snow and wind, after days of travel disruptions due to the winter storm. Over 1,000 passengers were stranded at Schiphol overnight. Airport authorities said they had set up camp beds for travelers who were forced to sleep at the airport, which is one of the busiest in Europe.

Intamin's Falcons Flight last week opened officially at the new Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia. At nearly 14,000 feet long with a drop of over 500 feet and a top speed of more than 155 mph, Falcons Flight is now the world's longest, tallest and fastest roller coaster. Until last week, those records were held by three separate coasters, with the height record kept by an American coaster Cedar Point's Top Thrill 2.

Airports in Paris and Amsterdam were the worst affected, with the Dutch authorities saying more than 1,000 travellers had been forced to spend the night at Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest hubs. Six people have died in weather-related accidents as the continent reels from the most bitter cold snap of the winter so far. Five of those deaths were confirmed in France on Tuesday, while a woman died in Bosnia as heavy snow and rain sparked floods and power outages across the Balkans.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has left the door open for the Government to back the Mercosur trade deal after the European Union made concessions this week in a bid to secure support for the controversial agreement. Mr Martin was speaking to reporters in Shanghai on the third day of his state visit to China following a move by the EU Commission to link the deal to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding.

Vladimir Putin's forces carried out yet another evil and sadistic attack on innocent civilians and many residential buildings on Dnipro overnight. Fires broke out over Dnipro and children were among those injured as buildings were damaged, the head of Dnipropetrovsk region Military Administration, Vladyslav Haivanenko confirmed. A total of seven civilians were injured amid the Russian drone strike, a child aged 8, and a 16 year old girl was hospitalised. Fire crews put out blazes on residential, administrative buildings a gas pipeline and vehicles.

I hope you haven't been worrying too much about Kimberly Guilfoyle, whose ex-fiancé, Donald Trump Jr., recently announced that he is engaged again, to a woman he appears to have started dating before most people, possibly including Guilfoyle herself, knew his previous relationship had ended. Despite the breakup and her subsequent combination promotion-banishment, Guilfoyle is thriving in her new role as the United States ambassador to Greece.

We see a bigger threat up here and it is mainly espionage and gathering information. "When you live here, you become a little more vigilant. "And you quickly see if there are people with a different dialect who are walking around taking pictures, who are in places they should not be, or who are in places that are important to us. We notice that.

No more precarious lives

It was 6am. London. A few days before Christmas. My four-year-old is singing at the top of her lungs and charging around my parents' house on a hunt for the perfect crayon. There is nothing particularly unusual about this scene except for the fact that the crayon in question was for Greta Thunberg. The world's most well-known activist needed a writing tool and my daughter, O, was on the case.

What do you mean military action against Greenland? Greenland has a population of 30,000 people. The real question is what right does Denmark have to assert control over Greenland? What is the basis of their territorial claim? What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?

Within two years, it had spread to every continent. Members - a lot of them teenagers - were finding kids as young as nine on Minecraft and Roblox. They'd befriend them, earn their trust, then trap them. They forced children to hurt themselves on camera. To hurt animals. To do things I'm not going to describe here. That kid from Texas is serving eighty years now. But 764 didn't stop. It splintered and kept growing.

Shortly before 4am, an adult male entered Blanchardstown Garda Station threatening members. Gardaí confirmed that they initiated their Operational Command protocol, which saw them appoint an On-Scene Commander and local Garda negotiators from the National Negotiators Unit. A cordon was put in place and all morning commuter traffic was stopped in the area. Gardaí also requested a 'media blackout', which means media outlets and the public are asked to pause any live reporting on events while they attempt to resolve the situation.

Gardaí believe the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a prominent Co Donegal businessman and former election candidate may have travelled to and from the scene on a quad bike.

Man and woman jailed following attack on Alejandro Mizsan in Wexford were released last year. A young boy who suffered life-changing injuries in an attack by an XL Bully dog has issued High Court proceedings against the owners and Tuath Housing. Alejandro Mizsan was aged nine when he was mauled by a dog while he was playing with friends in the Forgelands estate in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, in November 2022.

"We are profoundly sorry. We did not have an indication that the checks had not been done," Crans-Montana Mayor Nicolas Feraud told reporters on the absence of fire checks between 2020 and 2025. The mayor added that the sound-proof foam used in the bar Le Constellation was considered acceptable at the time. Prosecutors have said that the fire that spread rapidly in the early hours of January 1 was likely caused by sparkling candles igniting the ceiling of the bar's basement.

On a mid-December Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, Alex and Maia Shibutani are unlinking their heads from a single interlocked position, like a life-size Lego build coming apart. The Shib Sibs, as the brother-sister duo are affectionately known in the ice dance community, are taking their Bustle photo shoot very seriously, game to try different poses as the dulcet sounds of Olivia Dean play in the background.

Late last week, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot unleashed a flood of images of women, nude and in very little clothing, both real and imagined, in response to users' public requests on X, formerly Twitter. Mixed in with the generated images of adults were ones of young girls children likewise wearing minimal clothing, according to Grok itself. In an unprecedented move, the chatbot itself apologized while its maker, xAI, remained silent:

One month remains until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, with competitions set to run from February 4 to 22, 2026. The Opening Ceremony will take place on February 6 at the Milano San Siro Olympic Stadium and will bring together approximately 2,900 athletes from around the world competing across 16 sports, with 116 gold medals to be awarded.

Hard-earned funds are getting more and more squeezed, and that must be a cause for concern. People who have done the right thing-saved consistently and planned carefully-are finding that their money simply doesn't stretch as far as they expected.