In an effort to tackle the growing number of young people vaping, the UK government has announced a plan to ban all disposable vapes. While introducing the plan, which will be voted on in parliament, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pointed to research suggesting that single-use vapes, often sold in colourful …

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan were each sentenced to 14 years in jail, in a case related to illegal selling of state gifts, his party has said. The verdict also includes a 10-year disqualification from holding public office, his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), …

An agreement has been reached over the naming rights for the stadium that has been known throughout its history as Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Retailer SuperValu will assume the first naming rights for the Leeside stadium, which will be known as SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh, as part of a 10-year partnership. …

Nothing can “replace or substitute” the UN Palestinian refugee agency, whose staff were implicated in the Hamas attacks on Israel, the UN’s co-ordinator for Gaza aid has said, even as Israel made new claims against it. Several countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan, have suspended funding to …

New controls on imports entering Britain from the Republic of Ireland have come into effect. The changes, which are a result of Brexit, require firms to pre-lodge customs declarations ahead of shipping products across the Irish Sea. Agri-food exports also have to be pre-notified to the UK authorities and in …

Israel’s army has begun flooding Hamas’s network of tunnels as intense fighting rages in Gaza, with the UN warning of the potential “collapse of the humanitarian system” in the territory. The focus of the fighting in recent weeks has been Khan Yunis, southern Gaza’s main city, where vast areas have …

Details of the deal between the British government and the DUP that the party says forms the basis for its decision to return to power-sharing will be published today. The DUP claims to have secured significant changes in post-Brexit trade arrangements, which it had argued weakened Northern Ireland’s constitutional and …

In a series of articles looking at the issue of immigration in Ireland, today RTÉ’s Europe Editor Tony Connelly focuses on how the EU has attempted to deal with the migration crisis and examines how Ireland’s response might be impacted by the EU Migration and Asylum Pact. The migration crisis …

Brexit hasn’t gone away you know. And since midnight, new UK import controls have been in place for goods being sent from the Republic of Ireland to Great Britain. It is a development that may surprise people who understandably might have thought that at this stage all border controls associated …

Nothing can “replace or substitute” the UN Palestinian refugee agency, whose staff were implicated in the Hamas attacks on Israel, the UN’s co-ordinator for Gaza aid said even as Israel made new claims against it. Several countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan, have suspended funding to the …