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International
Palestine
Palestinian kills two in attack in Israel as defence minister calls for crackdown on his hometown
Christmas Day
Trump says US launched 'powerful and deadly' strikes on Islamic State militants in Nigeria
Thursday
25 Dec 2025
the vatican
Leo XIV calls on congregation to think of 'defenceless' Gazans at his first Christmas mass as pope
spooks
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.
Wednesday
24 Dec 2025
Social Media
US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner, accusing him of seeking to censor social media platforms
reginald d hunter
Judge rules summons by Campaign Against Antisemitism was attempt to have comedian ‘cancelled’
Interview
Palestine Red Crescent on two years of healthcare workers being beaten, kidnapped and killed
Tuesday
23 Dec 2025
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Your kids can talk to Santa tomorrow night through The North Portal, built by Glenveagh
Glenveagh Homes
Dec 23
Epstein files
Email from ‘A’ at Balmoral asked Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’, documents show
Shropshire
'It was like a scene from the Titanic film': Witnesses describe boat being swallowed by large 'sinkhole'
Bondi Beach
Australia to push through sweeping gun and protest laws in the wake of Bondi terror attack
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.
Monday
22 Dec 2025
El Salvador
Outcry after US broadcaster pulls programme on alleged abuses at Trump deportation prison
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