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- Typhoon brings heavy rain, wind to election-day Japan
A powerful typhoon moved toward Japan, with heavy rain triggering landslides and delaying voting at one ballot station as millions struggled to the polls for a national election. - 5 former US presidents unite for 'One America' appeal
All five of the US's living former presidents took the stage last night at a benefit concert in Texas to raise money for victims of the hurricane-ravaged southern US and Caribbean. - Australia to further tighten security at airports
Australia will introduce random searches of workers entering and inside its airports as it increases security after a recent foiled terrorism plot, officials said. - 10,000 remain without power following storms
Crews are still working to reconnect electricity to around 10,000 customers who remain without power following Storm Ophelia last Monday and Storm Brian yesterday. - Catalonia refuses plan for direct rule from Madrid
The people of Catalonia cannot accept the "illegal" measures taken by the Spanish government to rule the region directly from Madrid, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said today, as he called on the regional parliament to act against them. - Taoiseach not ruling out sanctions over tracker scandal
The Taoiseach has said that the Government is not ruling out further regulation, sanctions and taxation on the banks if they do not compensate people wrongly moved off tracker mortgages. - Two men arrested after woman found dead in Belfast
The PSNI have launched a murder investigation after a woman was found dead on the outskirts of Belfast today. - Storm Brian brings high winds and spot flooding
Storm Brian has caused spot flooding and travel disruption in Ireland, with gusts of more than 100km/h. - WHO chief 'rethinking approach' after Mugabe uproar
The head of the World Health Organisation has said he was "rethinking the approach" as outrage widened over his decision to name Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador. - Support for main parties dips in latest opinion poll
There are no post-Budget gains for either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil, according to the latest Sunday Business Post/RED C opinion poll. - Man dies after being struck by two cars in Dundalk
A man has died after he was struck by two cars in Co Louth in the early hours of this morning. - Motorist drove at 177km/h during Operation Slow Down
A motorist travelling at 177km/h in a 100km/h zone in Co Donegal was one of 225 vehicles caught speeding during Operation Slow Down. - Trump says he plans to release JFK files
US President Donald Trump said that subject to receipt of further information, he planned to allow the opening of long-secret files on the November 1963 assassination of president John F Kennedy that are scheduled for release next week. - Four injured in Munich knife attack, suspect detained
Police have detained a suspect in a knife attack in the southern German city of Munich in which four people were injured. - Australian police offer reward in serial killer case
Australian police offered a record AUS$6 million in rewards to catch the serial killer or killers behind the murders of six Melbourne women in the 1980s. - Missing Dublin teen found safe after appeal
A 16-year-old boy who was earlier reported missing has been found safe and well. - Irishman dies in drowning incident in Portugal
An Irishman has died in a drowning incident in Portugal. - President praises work of Irish support groups
President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to the work carried out by voluntary groups in assisting Irish people when they are far from home. - Death toll after Somalia truck bomb increases to 358
Somalia's deadliest ever attack, a truck bomb in the capital Mogadishu on 14 October, has now killed 358 people with 228 more injured, the government said. - Doubts raised over death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
International experts have announced that Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, but could not conclusively determine if he was assassinated by late dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime.
