Alexei Navalny organises nationwide rallies, calling for boycotting March presidential vote, prompting police crackdown. Russian police have arrested opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the capital, Moscow, after he joined nationwide protests he organised demanding fair presidential elections. A video posted on his Twitter account on Sunday showed several policemen wrestling him to the ground before […]

BERLIN (REUTERS) – Police detained a 50-year-old German man early on Tuesday (Jan 1) on suspicion of ramming his car into a crowd of people in the northwestern German town of Bottrop, injuring four, in what authorities say may have been a xenophobic attack. The man, who fled the scene, made racist comments when he […]

AS many as 40 people could still be trapped in the rubble of a Russian apartment block that partially collapsed in an explosion yesterday, killing at least four people. The blast, thought to have been caused by a gas leak, occurred at 6am local time and damaged 48 apartments in a nine-storey building in Magnitogorsk, […]

Garda in Munster are preparing a file to be brought to the Director of Public Prosecutions following an alleged rape of a 16-year-old boy by his girlfriend’s father. The alleged incident is understood to have happened at a house in Munster last Friday night but was not brought to the attention of gardaí until Saturday […]

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Louth had the honour of delivering the first baby of 2019 – and it pipped The Coombe to the post by just one second. Parents Michelle Montague and Simon Cox, from Kilmessan, Co Meath, welcomed Baby Meave at three seconds after midnight. She weighed a healthy 7lbs 4 ounces. […]

Two puppies have been rescued after they were found caged in a bucket and dumped in a ditch. The pups, which have been named Sugar and Spice by staff at Limerick Animal Welfare (LAW), are said to be recovering from their ordeal. They were found by a person out walking last Saturday, having been trapped […]

Damaging winds, torrential rain and heavy snow threaten widespread disruption. A winter storm is heading towards Europe, threatening widespread disruption on Wednesday night and Thursday. The continent’s northwest is already facing an onslaught from brisk winds and squally showers, with thunder snow likely across the British Isles on Tuesday. The conditions are expected to go […]

A man in his 30s was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the incident in Fulham Palace Road in Hammersmith, west London, the Metropolitan Police said. The suspects were arrested at a property near the scene and taken into custody at several police stations. Superintendent Mark Lawrence said: “Whilst it is unusual for so […]

German foreign minister says Berlin intends to have ‘better negotiations’ with Ankara. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has said that Berlin intends to have “better negotiations” with Ankara in a sign which might be seen as a thawing of bilateral relations. “Of course, we have the intention of having better negotiations with Turkey again. This […]

FSB. The letters are not just familiar to fans of spy thrillers. They have come to symbolise Vladimir Putin’s grip on power in Russia. Russia’s secretive security agency has gained notoriety around the world with its intelligence and counter-terror operations. But with roots in the Soviet Union’s KGB secret police, allegations of state-sanctioned killings and […]