Russia

Asking Lebanese to leave their homes so Israeli military can bomb indiscriminately is wrong

Lars Klingbeil, leader of Germany’s centre-left SPD party, on spending cuts, Russia, and trying to invest in its creaking infrastructure

Television: This gripping documentary paints a sobering portrait of 21st-century despotism: suited, booted and ready for its close-up

Inside Politics: Ministers hope to make ‘swift progress’ on Ukraine’s bid to join the EU

Dublin MEP seeks greater scrutiny of applications ‘to assess possible hostile intelligence activities’ by visa recipients

Andrius Kubilius pushes for governments to open weapons stockpiles to Ukraine

Commission president wants improved co-ordination following Ukrainian drone incursions

Sergei Lavrov tells Marco Rubio that Washington should evacuate its embassy because Moscow is planning ‘systematic strikes’

Germany’s Friedrich Merz suggested interim step of associate membership without voting rights

Oil futures markets are sanguine, but history shows expectations have often been disappointed

This is Also a Love Story, written by Irish Times journalist Sally Hayden, was launched in Dublin on Friday

Four killed in Ukrainian drone attack in Luhansk, Kremlin says

Andrey Zvyagintsev delivers a chilling thriller set in provincial Russia during the Ukraine war, but the political allegory can feel overdone

Trump’s White House is blending legal threats with hints of force in a high-risk bid to break Cuba’s leadership

Mood in EU has shifted in recent weeks as Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine conflict appear to have stalled

The protocol on Trump and Putin’s visits to China was almost identical – but the tone and the body language were strikingly different

Russian and Chinese presidents meet in Beijing and say western powers can no longer dominate global affairs in spirit of the colonial era

With plunging approval ratings, escalating inflation and rising unemployment, Trump has let down middle America

Russian leader’s two-day visit to Beijing comes as China seeks to project itself as a pillar of global stability

Early Edition with Andrew McNair

Group of MEPs demand EU stop export of aluminium products to Russian defence industry

Officials advised developing world could face ‘significant food shortages and price increases’ before year’s end

Kyiv says electronics factory for weapon parts and oil pumping station among target in Russia

It’s not clear to me on what moral basis I would refuse publication in Putin’s Russia while signing gratefully for Trump’s America

Zelenskiy says strikes are a response to Russian attacks on Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure

Technology is being deployed by Irish military to detect threats to key underwater cables and monitor Russian ‘shadow-fleet’ vessels

Ukrainian air force said barrage was the largest of the full-scale invasion

Traffic at ‌the Finnish capital’s airport has resumed after three-hour suspension

After four bloody years of war, signs of anxiety within the Kremlin are unmistakable

Widespread nature of attacks prompts warnings that Moscow is trying to overwhelm air defence systems

Prime minister Evika Siliņa resigns after incidents of drones crashing near Latvia’s border with Russia

In the 1980s and 1900s, Swedish sonar detected what sounded like submarines, but were actually flatulent fish

Zelenskiy says 14 regions came under fire with residential, energy and railway infrastructure targeted

The EU should consider its approach to lifting economic sanctions against Russia, and a future security architecture for the Continent

The FAI should refuse to play fixtures against Israel until Fifa and Uefa apply the same standards they applied elsewhere

Drone strikes, mounting casualties and a distracted US president means a slow-motion victory is in doubt

On the battlefield Russia’s small advances in Donbass have all but ground to a halt

EU imposes sanctions on Russia for systematic ‌unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children

Her grief at the death of her husband four years ago seemed emblematic of the grief of Ukraine. Yet, like her country, she is moving forward with a sense of purpose even as the war continues

Inconsistency between Government reluctance to formally acknowledge Armenian genocide and clear stance on Gaza