French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi have arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A lack of medical help, food, safe drinking water and the outbreak of deadly illnesses, including cholera, will lead to more deaths in the Russian occupied city of Mariupol, its deputy mayor has claimed.

The number of households in energy poverty in the State is estimated to be 29%, according to a new report published today by the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Police have found human remains in their search for British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira after a suspect confessed to killing them in the Amazon rainforest, investigators said.

Oscar-winning American actor Kevin Spacey is due to appear in a London court charged with sexually assaulting three men.

John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate US president Ronald Reagan in 1981, regained his freedom fully today, six years after he was released from a psychiatric hospital.

An Irish professor of geography has said it is clear heatwaves are "coming more frequently" than before.

Ghislaine Maxwell should spend fewer, and perhaps far fewer, than 20 years in prison for helping deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, her lawyers said.

Britain's deputy prime minister Dominic Raab has said he believes the European Court of Human Rights should not have intervened to ground the Rwanda scheme.

Women's Aid has reported a "significant increase" in demand last year for its face-to-face services, including drop-in court information and court accompaniment.

Events will take place across Ireland and the world today to mark Bloomsday.

The Government is to make €55m available to businesses to help them move away from the use of fossil fuels.

Australia's new centre-left government has submitted more ambitious emissions targets to the United Nations, seeking to end a decade of foot-dragging on climate change.

Japan's Zipair budget airline only launched in 2020, but an unfortunate coincidence has forced a rebrand of its logo -- the letter Z, now linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Professor Breda Smyth has been appointed interim Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health.

Unions representing staff and cabin crew for Ryanair in Italy have called a 24-hour strike for June 25, coinciding with walkouts the budget airline is facing the same day in other parts of Europe.

A trial at the Central Criminal Court has heard a 22-year-old man was shot dead while wheeling his four-month-old baby son in what the prosecution described as an horrific and "particularly callous act of violence and brutality".

The Taoiseach has described the decision to resume legal action against the UK over its move on the Northern Ireland Protocol as a step up in the response from the EU.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is "grateful" for a new American weapons package to Kyiv after speaking to US President Joe Biden.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's independent ethics adviser has resigned his post this evening.