UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces the biggest leadership crisis of his premiership as cabinet ministers including the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood reportedly urged him to consider his position and British government aides quit their posts.
The Cabinet is to discuss implementing stricter spending curbs on Government departments ahead of October's Budget with fresh sanctions for overspending departments.
Around 2,000 workers at the National Ambulance Service, who are members of SIPTU and Unite, will engage in a 24-hour strike from 8am in a dispute over pay.
Ukrainian authorities have named President Volodymyr Zelensky's powerful former chief of staff as a suspect in a major corruption probe, โ a move likely to pile pressure on the president's office at a sensitive moment in the war with Russia.
Lebanese leaders have urged the US ambassador to Beirut to pressure Israel to halt its attacks as it pounded the country with airstrikes on over 30 locations despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
The Social Democrats are calling for an increase in betting tax to 5% to help fund sports and culture initiatives in disadvantaged areas, a move which the Irish Bookmakers Association says would decimate local bookmakers.
A serious breakdown in relationships at the top of Northern Ireland's legacy body is undermining its work, according to a British Government commissioned review.