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Zelenskiy in Brussels for talks with EU leaders about latest fracture in relationship with Trump

Ukrainians believe Trump is playing politics and business with people’s lives by siding with Russia

Time for others to step up and lead a concerted and intelligent response to geopolitical challenges

Price-gouging checks at petrol stations and electric vehicle grants for French taxi drivers among Continent’s responses to global energy shock

US president denies intelligence sharing has stopped in row over Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil plants

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Iseq bucks trend with slight rise

Six crew members rescued and 10 others missing in attack near Nato territorial waters

Officials from Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to discuss Ukraine as Russian attacks increase

But US politicians warn agreement ‌with Putin may violate US law barring ​imports of Russian energy

UK prime minister seemed to suggest on politics podcast that Putin influenced outcome of Brexit referendum

EU leaders are confronted with the limits of their own support for Ukraine as Washington pressures Kyiv

Zelenskiy says Russia continues to strike Ukraine’s power facilities despite Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ announcement

Kyiv says it supports the proposal despite being blindsided, while Moscow’s silence casts doubt on whether a truce is viable

Britain and Canada say they would back an energy ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv

A comprehensive energy ceasefire beyond oil refineries could perhaps follow and open the way to a full ceasefire before winter

Overall cost of protecting Moscow’s south Dublin mission since Ukraine invasion now several million euro

Extraordinary intervention came after Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region

‘Gifts to Putin will not bring peace ‌or ‌any ​benefit to the civilised world,’ says Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy

At least 30 die after aerial strike hits two passenger buses in frontline city of Kramatorsk

Teddy Young (24) was accused of obtaining protected information that could benefit unnamed foreign power

Russian officials said a Liberian-flagged tanker was attacked and a crew of 23 Indian nationals rescued

Espionage, state secrets and foreign agents: the case engulfing former head of Germany’s intelligence reads like a spy thriller

Washington increases pressure on Moscow to share more about the incident in which one person has died

The Wall Street Journal reporter recounts his arrest, trial and 16 months in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison

August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005

Laboratory worker at plague research institute died last week

Mystery death at plague research institute in Irkutsk sparks quarantine measures across Siberia

Friedrich Merz pledged €1bn in military aid and said his ⁠visit ‘demonstrates ​that we will not be intimidated’

Micheál Martin also confirms welfare recipients and pensioners can expect Christmas bonus

Six people were killed in latest attack on Ukraine’s capital

Pro-Ukrainian prime minister Andris Kulbergs is likely to hold on to power

Ukraine says intercepted document shows Moscow wants to cripple the power grid using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones

Taoiseach, Cabinet Ministers and MEPs contacted by Russian-owned plant in Co Limerick

Europe’s industrial base is weakening while support for the far right is growing

‘Eastern Pearl’ first exercise of its type, with plans for more complex British-Irish co-operation amid Russian aggression

Ukrainians expect a winter of attacks intended to plunge cities into cold and darkness

Existential risk remains a ‘huge leap’, experts say, but concerns are growing over AI capability

‘Russia is deliberately expanding the boundaries of what it believes the world will tolerate,’ said foreign minister Andrii Sybiha

Pontiff urges ​Europeans to recall EU’s founding values including the rule of law and the equality of all