Tennessee stopped the planned execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers after medical staff could not secure the intravenous access needed to carry it out, officials said. Carruthers, 57, had been set to die by lethal injection at a Nashville prison for the 1994 killings of Delois Anderson, her son Marcellos Anderson and Frederick Tucker. According to the Tennessee Department of Corrections, medical personnel successfully placed a primary IV line for the lethal drugs but were unable to locate a suitable vein for the…

A drone strike in the Russian-occupied Lugansk region hit a college dormitory overnight, killing six people and injuring dozens more, according to Russian officials, in an attack the Kremlin swiftly denounced as terrorism. Up to 15 others remain missing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in televised remarks, calling the strike a "terrorist" act. Mr Putin said he had instructed the defence ministry to prepare a response, but gave no further details. Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine, is almost بالكامل under Russian occupation,…

Mounting tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are likely to drive Ebola deeper into the country, an Irish doctor working with Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) has warned. The warning followed an attack yesterday on an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Congo, which was set ablaze by people angered after they were stopped from recovering the body of a local man. About 600 suspected Ebola cases have been recorded in the DRC, along with more than 140 deaths, figures that led the World Health Organization to declare a…

Britain’s police inquiry into former prince Andrew is expected to be lengthy and complicated, senior officers have said, following his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office — an offence that can encompass sexual impropriety. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was questioned under caution for several hours by detectives after his arrest at his Norfolk home in February, which came after the US Department of Justice released millions of documents connected to the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.…

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has embraced President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to send 5,000 US troops to Poland, a move that reverses an earlier plan shelved as Washington pressed Europe to shoulder more of its own defence. "Of course, I welcome the announcement," Rutte told reporters before a meeting of alliance foreign ministers in Sweden, saying NATO's "military commanders are working through all the details". Trump caught allies off guard by unveiling the deployment only hours before Secretary of State Marco…

International condemnation mounted after Israel’s far-right security minister released a video showing Gaza-bound flotilla activists pinned to the ground and mocked, as two detainees later said they were physically assaulted while in custody. The police treatment of the group, carried out under the authority of Itamar Ben-Gvir, prompted criticism not only from Western governments but also from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the United States, Israel’s closest ally. The activists had been attempting to bring…

Keir Starmer has said he will join the campaign trail for Andy Burnham in the north-west England bye-election, throwing his weight behind a figure widely seen as a possible rival for the Labour leadership. At the same time, the British prime minister and Labour leader tried to shift attention onto his government’s record and away from what he called “all the other discussions that are going on” — an apparent nod to the leadership speculation that has shadowed him since Labour’s heavy losses in local and devolved elections…

Queen Elizabeth II was "very keen" for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to assume a "prominent role in the promotion of national interests", according to a senior official’s memo sent to the then-foreign secretary before his appointment as trade envoy in 2001. In the note to Robin Cook, dated 25 February 2000, David Wright, then chief executive of British Trade International, wrote that Queen Elizabeth’s "wish" was for Andrew, then the Duke of York, to take up the position. Mr Wright outlined a job that would involve regional…

More than 16 years after Air France Flight AF447 plunged into the Atlantic, a Paris appeals court has convicted Airbus and Air France of corporate manslaughter in the 2009 Rio-Paris disaster, the deadliest plane crash in France's history, which claimed 228 lives. Among those killed were three Irish women: Jane Deasy of Co Dublin, Eithne Walls of Co Down and Aisling Butler of Co Tipperary. All three were doctors travelling home after a holiday in Brazil. The ruling marks a new chapter in a long-running legal battle that has…

Outrage spread across Western capitals after Israel’s far-right security minister released a video showing Gaza-bound flotilla activists pinned to the ground, a scene that quickly deepened into a diplomatic row when two detainees later alleged they were physically assaulted in custody. The handling of the activists by police officers operating under Itamar Ben-Gvir’s authority also prompted criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and from the United States, Israel’s staunchest ally. The activists had been…