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The attacks raise the obvious likelihood of Saudi retaliation with the concomitant danger of escalation into wider conflict in a region that has known little else for years

'You don’t get to take his very life, his whole future from him and just walk away from it,' judge says

Kimberly Guilfoyle, former finacée of Donald Trump Jr, is alleged to have accepted improper gifts

Democrats hope to take advantage of Donald Trump’s declining popularity and reclaim the House and Senate from the Republicans

US planned execution by firing squad

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

Somali-born Omar is an outspoken critic of ‌US president Donald Trump

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

Orla Poole says the swimming coach attempted to rape her when she was 12 – a half-century later she faced him directly in court

The decision to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan is a sign of profound moral decay

Jordan McGrath arrived in New York in mid-August and has not been heard from since

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen described the ‘murderous attack on civilians’ as a ‘dangerous escalation’ in the wider war

Taipei awaits approval of a $14bn arms package as uncertainty over Washington’s commitment to the island grows

Christa Pike has already spent 30 years on Death Row, and 28 in what amounted to solitary confinement

The Columbia University graduate, a green card holder, who still faces the threat of deportation, has written a book about his arrest by Ice and subsequent detention

Republicans would ring her home at all hours of the day to abuse her and play rebel songs down the line

The US State Department says gaps in victim identification mean Irish children are rarely recognised as trafficking victims

‘People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,’ says Hegseth

Yemen’s civil war now the fiercest front in regional fighting triggered by the US and Israeli ⁠attack on Iran

I drove across Ohio on Route 40, one of the many states in which Republican strategists are responding to distant sirens

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, accused of torturing American citizens and others held in Venezuela to repress opposition

Last year 23 individuals were sentenced to death, joining some 2,000 on death row

Details of how the town of Shamrock acquired its name are somewhat obscured

Pike, whose ordeal has galvanised critics of the death penalty, remains in hospital

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission

US president’s essential message to Maga voters on campaign tour has been ‘pretend I am on the ballot’

Irish airport operator DAA has contract to operate terminal at one of the Saudi airports attacked

Judge says she will order Tennessee officials to preserve ‌all evidence from attempt to execute Pike

Cloud computing giant has already shed around 150 Irish roles this year

The suspected murder of an Okinawan woman by a US soldier has reignited anger about the heavy presence of US forces on the tiny island

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

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Toxic masculinity is real and we should not be afraid to say so. What needs refreshing is how the term is used

Use of the drug could complicate the revived criminal investigation, legal experts say

Officials say bombers were taken from Fairford because of the risk of an attack ordered by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The ground will not stop shifting, but the principle that people are tried on the evidence in court, and nowhere else, remains worth fighting for

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

Despite the macabre outcome, authorities are instead searching for more efficient ways to kill humans

Ireland ‘uniquely vulnerable’ because of reliance on home heating oil

A mysterious call near Fairford airbase set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty