"At the current stage of the war, it is unmanned aerial vehicles that provide about 60% of all strikes on enemy targets," Syrskyi wrote. The military chief said that in November alone, Ukrainian uncrewed aerial vehicles, or UAVs, carried out over 304,000 missions, striking or destroying roughly 81,500 targets. "Over the past six months, this indicator has been constantly growing," Syrskyi added. Meanwhile, Ukrainian uncrewed ground vehicles, or UGVs, carried out 2,000 missions in the same timeframe, he said.
When the woman's phone began to ring one morning in June, she did not know that the news she would receive would hurtle her and her teenage daughter into a "tunnel" of medical appointments, tests and fear. On the other end of the line, she said, was the head of the fertility department at a Belgian clinic she had visited in 2011 to undergo fertility treatment, which at the time was not available to would-be single mothers in France.
At around 8:10pm, Gardaí and emergency services responded to the collision on the R132 at Dowdallshill. The female driver of the first car, aged in her late 20s, was removed from the scene to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda with non-life-threatening injuries. A passenger in that car, an infant boy, was removed to Temple Street Children's Hospital where he remains in critical condition.
"The first step should always be to teach young people skills," Quentin Gartner of the German National Students' Conference. He added that minors need to learn how to behave responsibly online, rather than simply being blocked. Australia's new law, which came into effect on Wednesday, requires major platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook to block accounts of users under 16 or face fines of up to A$49.5 million (30 million).
Barcelona's El Prat Airport has started restricting access to its terminals to anyone without proof of a boarding pass, as authorities aim to control the problems of homelessness and petty crime at Spain's second busiest airport. Spanish airport operator Aena has changed access rules to Barcelona El Prat in a bid to improve security at the Catalan capital's main airport.
Docusign is expanding its AI Centre of Excellence in Dublin, saying it wants to accelerate local AI innovation and fuel growth across the EMEA region. The €4.5 million (£3.9m) investment includes support from Ireland's Foreign Direct Investment Agency (IDA) - a non-commercial, semi-state body promoting foreign direct investment - and was welcomed by minister of enterprise, tourism, and employment, Peter Burke.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared that his government was prepared to hold elections within three months if the United States and Kyiv's other allies can ensure the security of the voting process. Zelenskyy issued his statement on Tuesday as he faced renewed pressure from US President Donald Trump, who suggested in an interview with a news outlet that the Ukrainian government was using Russia's war on their country as an excuse to avoid elections.
New data from Indeed suggests the UK labour market will enter 2026 in a subdued state, with job postings 19 percent below their pre-pandemic level. This is an 8 percent year-on-year decline, though broadly unchanged since mid-April and up 4 percent over the past month. The analysis - covering job postings from 1 January to 21 November 2025 - also highlights the UK as an outlier, with postings in Europe and North America remaining above pre-pandemic levels.
The investigation, which cost close to £48m and took eight years, has revealed new details, despite not naming Scappaticci as Stakeknife. Operation Kenova found in its interim report that more lives were probably lost than saved through the operation of Stakeknife, an agent who "committed grotesque, serious crime", including torture and murder. A team of detectives headed by the former head of Police Scotland, Iain Livingstone, delivered the findings in Belfast yesterday.
Starmer and Frederiksen, who have toughened immigration policies in their countries, called for a "modernisation of the interpretation" of the ECHR, which came into force in 1953. The leaders said their proposal is "so that the convention system, which we believe in, can evolve to reflect the challenges of the 21st century". They argued that without a change "the forces that seek to divide us will grow stronger," in a clear reference to surging support for hard-right political parties across Europe.
Across Europe we are witnessing an escalation in hybrid threats - from physical through to cyber - designed to weaken critical national infrastructure, undermine our interests and interfere in our democracies all for the advantage of malign foreign states,
Stellantis N.V. ( NYSE: STLA) has signed a deal with Estonia-based ride-hailing platform Bolt to deploy driverless vehicles across Europe, with plans to begin on-road trials in 2026. The transaction will integrate Stellantis autonomous vehicle platforms with Bolt's ride-hailing network, which serves more than 200 million customers in over 50 countries, including the 23 member states of the European Union.
That behaviour concerns its widely criticised practice of charging customers more for wanting to run and host its software (namely Windows Server) in competing cloud environments. It is claimed the tactic can make it cost-prohibitive for enterprise cloud users to run Microsoft's software anywhere but on the software giant's own public cloud platform Azure, which could potentially give it an unfair advantage when it comes to building its share of the cloud infrastructure market.
It was "misconceived" for a Department of Housing official to repost a controversial video offering advice to young people moving back into the family home, the Housing Minister has conceded.
On 4 December, EBU members voted to bring in new rules preventing governments and third parties from disproportionate campaigns to promote their country's acts, but decided not to vote on Israel's inclusion in the competition. In a statement, the EBU said that "the Eurovision song contest 2026 should proceed as planned" with Israel competing, despite the country's military action in Gaza. As a result, four countries - Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands - confirmed that they will not partake in the 2026 contest, which will take place in Vienna next May.
One of the market's main focal points is Wednesday's Fed meeting, where not only the interest rate decision will be announced, but also a new Summary of Economic Projections. These projections will serve as a guide to evaluate the policy outlook for 2025-2026, particularly in an environment of more controlled inflation and signs of economic cooling. Investors are seeking clarity on how many additional rate cuts might be considered in the near term.
Weather conditions associated with Met Éireann's Status Orange and Yellow warnings have led to outages throughout today, Tuesday 9th December, as Storm Bram causes substantial damage to the electricity network,
Munster senior coach Mike Prendergast is optimistic that Jack Crowley, Jean Kleyn and Michael Milne will be available for Saturday's historic Champions Cup clash with Gloucester at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
The scene filmed on Sunday showed France's first lady in discussion backstage at the Folies Bergere theatre in central Paris with actor Ary Abittan before a performance he was about to give. The previous night, feminist campaigners had disrupted his show, wearing masks of the actor bearing the word rapist and shouting, Abittan, rapist! A woman in 2021 accused the actor of rape, but in 2023, investigators dropped the case, citing a lack of evidence.
John grew up in midtown Toronto where he spent hours exploring murals, sketching buildings and learning the stories behind neighbourhood landmarks. He was the kind of teenager who noticed new posters on lampposts before anyone else. His early love for urban culture eventually guided him toward studying Communications and City Studies at the University of Toronto. He often reflects on this time.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country is committed to "a real peace" and that "everything depends on whether Russia is ready to take effective steps to stop the bloodshed." In a post on X, he added that work continued "very actively on all components of potential steps toward ending the war." "The Ukrainian and European components are now more developed, and we are ready to present them to our partners in the US,"
Money transfer service Remitly set out to find the world's least stressful city to live in. Researchers looked at 170 locations around the globe, focusing on five key metrics to paint a picture of how stressful it is to live in each: the average time to travel 10 kilometers (about 6.2 miles), annual pollution levels, cost of living index, health care quality and accessibility, and a crime index based on perceived safety and security citizens expressed on worldwide surveys.
