The intrigue: This is Witkoff's sixth meeting with Putin in Russia but the first in-person meeting between Putin and Trump's team since the Alaska summit in August. It's also the first time Kushner has joined the talks with Putin. Witkoff and Kushner are expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday in Europe and brief him on the talks with Putin, according to two sources with knowledge. The U.S. envoys were expected to present Putin with the revised U.S. peace plan, which was whittled from 28 points down to 19 during talks with the Ukrainians.
Kelluu, a Finnish company located about 50 miles from the Russian border, is launching small, propeller-driven airships filled with hydrogen, which it believes can fill a gap in battlefield and border surveillance. The startup is already finding success with NATO, being the first to secure a deal with a Western nation through a new innovators' program run by the alliance.
The 45-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, fled the jurisdiction shortly before the jury was due to resume deliberations prompting a bench warrant to be issued and a multi-county search that has so far failed to locate him. After he fled the jury returned a majority guilty verdict on the two counts of sexual assault that he was facing during the trial which took place in June 2025.
The EPPO said that its investigation was focused on a "nine-month training program for junior diplomats" and its tender process in 2021 and 2022, which the EU's diplomatic service the EEAS had awarded to the College of Europe.
With his bear-like look and immense clout, Andriy Yermak towered over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for years literally and figuratively. A former copyright lawyer who collaborated with District 95, a comic troupe that propelled Zelenskyy to stardom, the 54-year-old Yermak became Ukraine's grey cardinal after the former comedian won the 2019 presidential vote. list of 4 itemsend of list While chief of Zelenskyy's staff, Yermak played an outsized role he was widely considered as vice president and vice prime minister.
Thus, those of us at work, hear whisperings of undeserved successes, based on dumb luck, cavalier shortcuts, or less generally shared advantages. Yet, envy is not always purely negative because it is about the will to achieve and succeed. Hold those sentiments as we look back at news that former garda commissioner, Drew Harris, got his Phoenix Park home, a spit from his workplace, free of charge during his term of office.
A Russian oil tanker was hit again in the Back Sea on Tuesday which is the fourth incident in a week as Ukrainian forces are stepping up their attack on Vladimir Putin's shadow fleet. The Turkish directorate of maritime affairs said the tanker, Midvolga 2 was hit 80 miles of their coastline by a Ukrainian drone as it sailed from Georgia carrying a cargo of sunflower oil. The ship did not request any help and no injuries were reported among their thirteen crew members.
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The issue of the image rights of inter-county GAA players has washed up on the GAA's shores consistently in the two-and-a-half decades since the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) was born.
Dispute hinged on whether outfarms were included in bequeathal The High Court has resolved a bitter family dispute over the will of a Carlow bachelor farmer, ruling that the deceased intended to leave his entire 69ac landholding to his nephew, who had worked the farm for decades. The case, officially cited as Murphy v Butler and Others, hinged on the interpretation of the 2019 will of William Doyle from Bealalaw, Myshall,
Therefore, it's no wonder Russian officials like to talk up Sarmat's capabilities. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Sarmat a "truly unique weapon" that will "provide food for thought for those who, in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric, try to threaten our country." Dmitry Rogozin, then the head of Russia's space agency, called the Sarmat missile a "superweapon" after its first test flight in 2022.
On the night of November 28, the deep strike units of the Special Operations Forces successfully struck the Shahed attack UAV storage and launch area near Cape Chaudy, which is on the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
On the eve of a new Champions Cup season it is worth remembering when and where it all began. The answer is 30 years ago on the shores of the Black Sea where Farul Constanta of Romania hosted France's mighty Toulouse in the opening pool game of the old Heineken Cup on 31 October 1995. Let's just say they were different times.
The city has now surpassed the record of the country as a whole, which made headlines around the world in 2010-11 when it took 541 days to form a government, the longest period to form an administration in peacetime. Brussels, however, like Northern Ireland, which went 729 days without a government, will escape the ignominy of entering the Guinness World Records, which counts only sovereign states.
Streets look better with trees. Sure, some might drop sap on your motor, but there's no denying that a road framed by leafy greens is much nicer on the eyes (not to mention better for the lungs). One of London's poshest retail destinations is the latest part of the capital to benefit from a green makeover. Sloane Street, a one-kilometre stretch which runs between Knightsbridge and Sloane Square, has been transformed with new trees, plant beds and wider pavements.
Travel patterns from Germany's main airports during the summer flight schedule (April to October 2025) reveal a number of trends among holidaymakers. While the total number of air travellers has not completely rebounded since the Covid pandemic, data released by the Germany's statistics office (Destatis) highlights shifts across domestic, short-haul and long-haul journeys. In total, 68.5 million passengers departed Germany for destinations abroad during the summer, marking a rise of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year.
At the latest ESA Ministerial meeting, where contributions and projects are discussed, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher said it had secured €22.1 billion (£19.41 billion/ $25.69 billion) in commitments, close to the €22.25 billion target. The slight shortfall was due to substantial oversubscriptions in some areas and undersubscriptions in others. However, the UK's contribution fell from €1.876 billion (11.24 percent) in 2022 to €1.706 billion (7.78 percent).
To paraphrase the late Séamus Brennan, this is senior hurling and these lads have All-Ireland medals. Fianna Fáil cannot simply blame the candidate Expect the rose-tinted leak any day now to distract from the real meat of the report into the Jim Gavin debacle - how the most significant misjudgment in the term of the longest-serving Fianna Fáil leader since Éamon de Valera unfolded.
the pair said that the bank would get access to Mistral AI's commercial models, including future developments. Meanwhile, the $65.9 billion revenue bank said it would combine its "strong internal technology capabilities" with the French LLM developer's expertise "to enhance current AI initiatives through self-hosted AI models that operate on HSBC's internal technology systems". Using AI platforms could help "client-facing teams to deliver tailored communications at speed" and allow "marketing teams to launch hyper-personalized campaigns".
Over the weekend, Ukrainian negotiators have met US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington's proposed framework to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Diplomats focused on revisions to a proposed 28-point plan developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. That plan has been criticised as being too weighted toward Russian demands. Meanwhile, EU ministers are meeting in Brussels for talks on foreign and defence issues,
Police in Spain have arrested three people on suspicion of belonging to the Base, a global neo-Nazi terrorist group that incites and trains members in techniques to overthrow governments and bring about a race war. The group, which has been designated a terrorist organisation by the EU, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is part of a worldwide accelerationist white power movement that prepares its cells to carry out violent and destabilising attacks.
First and foremost, it's not a smooth tasting vodka, with added minerals that create a strange, almost saline-like flavor. Even more disappointingly, we felt that Skyy vodka tasted light and fresh initially, but the finish was too strong and the flavors just weren't balanced. Skyy is missing the pure, clean finish that smaller batch distilleries have mastered, and crucially, it's not a vodka that you can enjoy on the rocks either.
Southwest England's Dorset Council is preparing to swap its legacy SAP ERP for an Oracle-built replacement in a project set to cost £14.2 million over three years. According to an official notice published last week, the £417.2 million-budget unitary authority has signed a £7 million contract with Oracle "for the purchase of an Enterprise Resource Planning solution to complete core HR, payroll, finance, and procurement processes." Although the council did not name the specific Oracle product, it has published a job ad for an ERP transformation program director "to lead the implementation of Oracle Fusion," a cloud-based system.
The National Ambulance Service and Gardaí rushed to the busy road, which links Taghmon with the notorious Larkin's Cross, but sadly their efforts were to prove in vain as the man was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner has been notified. The road was sealed off to traffic pending a full technical examination of the scene by garda forensic collision investigators. It is expected to remain closed for some time and local diversions are in place.
