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International

Last week
21st December 2025 - 3rd January 2026
7 deadly reads
Sitdown Santa: How did such an annoying Christmas song get so popular?
25 Dec 2025
17.4k
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Sydney
Australia announces bravery award for heroes of Bondi terror attack
25 Dec 2025
7.4k
The Morning Lead
Taoiseach pushes back on Defence Forces intelligence officer claim of China as a hostile state
Taoiseach Micheál Martin is due to travel to China in the coming weeks.
Niall O'Connor
25 Dec 2025
26.0k
88
Russia
Two police officers killed in Moscow in overnight explosion
Updated 24 Dec 2025
11.7k
Social Media
US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner, accusing him of seeking to censor social media platforms
24 Dec 2025
15.4k
131
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Judge rules summons by Campaign Against Antisemitism was attempt to have comedian ‘cancelled’
24 Dec 2025
16.2k
Interview
Palestine Red Crescent on two years of healthcare workers being beaten, kidnapped and killed
Updated 24 Dec 2025
4.1k
Ankara
Libya's top military chief and four other officials killed in plane crash over Turkey
Updated 24 Dec 2025
9.3k
Vatican
Pope calls for global truce on Christmas Day and says 'Russia rejected a request' for one
23 Dec 2025
13.5k
28
New South Wales
Australian state lawmakers approve sweeping gun and protest laws after Bondi attack
23 Dec 2025
5.4k
Christmas Special
Ukraine's Dancing With The Stars returns for one special episode
23 Dec 2025
9.5k
Glastonbury
No further action to be taken into Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury set, local police say
23 Dec 2025
3.7k
Metropolitan Police
Russell Brand charged with two further sexual offences, including rape
23 Dec 2025
15.6k
Ryanair
Italy fines Ryanair over €255 million for abuse of dominant position
23 Dec 2025
15.2k
35
Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
23 Dec 2025
2.9k
release
Latest Epstein Files drop contains numerous references to Donald Trump
Updated 23 Dec 2025
39.1k
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Epstein files
Email from ‘A’ at Balmoral asked Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’, documents show
Updated 23 Dec 2025
29.4k
UK
Greta Thunberg arrested at London protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers
23 Dec 2025
13.7k
Shropshire
'It was like a scene from the Titanic film': Witnesses describe boat being swallowed by large 'sinkhole'
23 Dec 2025
15.4k
Bondi Beach
Australia to push through sweeping gun and protest laws in the wake of Bondi terror attack
23 Dec 2025
4.9k
Here we go again
'We have to have it': Trump renews push to annex Greenland amid anger from Denmark
23 Dec 2025
25.7k
79
The Morning Lead
'Squeamish debate' misses the point of working with NATO and EU states on defence, Martin says
Ireland should not be afraid of mutually beneficial co-operation with other nations amid the heightened Russian threat, the Taoiseach said.
Niall O'Connor
23 Dec 2025
9.6k
64
El Salvador
Outcry after US broadcaster pulls programme on alleged abuses at Trump deportation prison
22 Dec 2025
22.2k
37
frosty relations
EU offers 'full solidarity' to Denmark after Trump appoints Greenland envoy
Updated 22 Dec 2025
31.2k
82
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22 Dec 2025
7.9k
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22 Dec 2025
3.0k
RIP
Singer Chris Rea, known for the hit song Driving Home for Christmas, has died aged 74
22 Dec 2025
39.8k
89
Sinkhole
Ten people rescued after boats pulled into sinkhole in English canal
22 Dec 2025
29.7k
12
Russia
Senior Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow, investigators say
Updated 22 Dec 2025
16.8k
RIP
James Ransone, US actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in The Wire, dies aged 46
22 Dec 2025
29.6k
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Australia
Alleged Bondi Beach gunmen carried out 'tactical' training before attack, police say
22 Dec 2025
5.4k
Mohamed Shaalan
‘I’ll never give up’ says Dublin surgeon refused entry to Gaza Strip for third time
Dr Mohamed Shaalan had volunteered to enter Gaza with a team of WHO medical workers earlier this month, but was denied entry.
21 Dec 2025
8.3k
Bondi Beach
Thousands gather on Bondi Beach to mark a week since antisemitic terror attack
Updated 21 Dec 2025
9.2k
Palestine
Israel's security cabinet approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank
21 Dec 2025
8.1k
Miami
Kremlin denies that three-way US-Ukraine-Russia talks are on the cards
21 Dec 2025
10.1k
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Sitdown Sunday: The untold story of how Jeffrey Epstein became so rich
21 Dec 2025
21.8k
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Bekkersdal
Gunmen kill nine people and wound 10 others in South Africa bar attack
21 Dec 2025
13.7k
Nicolas Maduro
US seizes a second oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
21 Dec 2025
9.5k
The Morning Lead
Gifts that don't exist and fake invoices to busy staff: Scams doing the rounds this Christmas
The Journal has been speaking to sources who are in involved in investigating complaints about the latest online and phone scams.
Niall O'Connor
21 Dec 2025
14.3k
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