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A US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, and Sri Lanka’s navy said on Wednesday it recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people. The Iranian vessel that was sunk in the Indian Ocean was the Islamic Republic’s “prize ship”, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Pentagon news briefing. […]

Cuba has filed terrorism charges against six suspects it claims were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat that is alleged to have opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island’s north coast. The Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that the suspects, of Cuban origin, remain in pretrial detention, adding that it will ensure “due process” […]

Defence secretary Pete Hegseth says a torpedo from a US submarine sank an Iranian warship. In a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Mr Hegseth said that the Tuesday night strike on an Iranian warship was the first such attack on an enemy since the Second World War. “An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought […]

Stock markets in Europe have steadied after two days of punishing falls but oil prices continued to climb higher as the US-Israel war with Iran threatens to spark an energy supply crunch and experts warned over ongoing volatility. London’s FTSE 100 Index was largely unchanged in early trading on Wednesday, down just 0.4 points at […]

Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon said on Tuesday that Israel and the United States now control almost all of Iran’s airspace and that superiority would be evident in the next few days. Danon told reporters at the United Nations in New York that the conflict with Iran would not be over in a day or […]

French president Emmanuel Macron has ordered his country’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East. Mr Macron said the Charles de Gaulle will be escorted by its air wing, and its escorting frigates. In a pre-recorded speech […]

The Taoiseach has said there is “no excuse for prices going up at the pumps yesterday, or indeed anywhere” because Irish oil “is coming from the North Sea and we don’t want any price gouging going on”. Micheál Martin was speaking to the press before his cabinet met on Tuesday, when he was asked about […]

Minister of State with responsibility for International Development & Diaspora, Neale Richmond, has said that the Government was looking at all the options on the table to repatriate Irish citizens from the Gulf region. Speaking on both Newstalk Breakfast and RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Mr Richmond said the advice for the 22,000 Irish citizens in […]

Oil prices have risen further as the Middle East conflict intensified, and after Iran took action to block a crucial shipping route for crude tankers. Brent crude rose by more than another 3 per cent on Tuesday to stand at a one-year high of 80 US dollars a barrel, having soared by as much as […]