Abdiwahab Ahmed

With oil markets rattled and the Strait of Hormuz still at the center of the crisis, US and Iranian negotiators met in Pakistan for their most senior talks in half a century, seeking a way to end a war that has already redrawn the region’s fault lines. At the same time, US President Donald Trump said American forces had sunk Tehran's mine-layers and begun reopening the strategic waterway. "We're now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favour to Countries all over the World," Mr Trump posted, saying…

Haiti Couleurs stands on the brink of a rare slice of racing history, with Rebecca Curtis’s runner carrying Welsh hopes of ending a 121-year wait for a home-trained winner of the Randox Grand National. No horse prepared in Wales has won at Aintree since Kirkland in 1905, and Curtis believes the nine-year-old has a genuine chance to change that. He also has the opportunity to become the first horse to add the Merseyside showpiece to victories in both the Irish and Welsh Grand Nationals. "He seems really well in himself. I've…

In a region where almost every election is billed as a defining post-1989 moment, Hungary’s parliamentary vote appears to stand apart. That phrase — the "most important election since '89" — is often overused in Central and Eastern Europe, only to be recycled at the next trip to the ballot box. But Hungary’s vote tomorrow makes a strong case for the title. The outcome could shape not only the country’s political course, but also its standing inside the European Union. Tisza leader Péter Magyar, a 44-year-old lawyer and…

After nearly 10 days in space, the Artemis II capsule carrying a four-astronaut crew tore back through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, bringing to a close humanity's first journey to the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years. NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, named Integrity, drifted under parachutes into waters off the Southern California coast shortly after 5pm PT (1am Irish time), ending a mission that carried its crew farther into space than any humans had travelled before. The…

High in the mountains above Beirut, in the village of Aintoura, a former school has taken on a very different purpose. Classrooms no longer hold lessons; they now hold families driven from their homes. Inside, Omar Toni Azar works alongside his mother and father to manage the shelter they set up there. It resembles a family enterprise in one sense only: they do the work without pay. "There are around 160 people here now," Omar told RTÉ News. "I hope there will not be more, because some rooms are divided between two, three,…

The Artemis II crew has already etched its place in spaceflight history with a lunar flyby, extraordinary views of the Moon and a trove of mission data. But for NASA, the moment that matters most in the ten-day voyage still lies ahead: bringing the astronauts safely home. Earlier this week, Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, alongside Canadian Jeremy Hansen, travelled farther from Earth than any humans before them. The mission is widely seen as a pivotal step toward future crewed landings on the Moon…

After nearly 10 days in space, the Artemis II capsule carrying four astronauts tore back through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, closing out humanity's first journey into the moon's neighborhood in more than 50 years. NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, named Integrity, drifted under parachutes into the ocean off Southern California shortly after 5pm PT (1am Irish time), bringing to an end a mission that carried its crew farther into space than any people had traveled before. Covering…

BAFTA has issued an "unreserved" apology to black and disability communities after a racial slur was heard during its 2026 film awards, as an independent review concluded the organisation’s planning for the ceremony contained "a number of structural weaknesses". In a statement published on Friday, the BAFTA board of trustees said its apology extended not only to the black community over the racist language broadcast during the event, but also to the disability community, which it said had been subjected to "unfair judgement"…

A fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran faces a pivotal test in Islamabad, where the two sides are holding their highest-level talks in years in a Pakistan-brokered effort to turn a two-week pause in fighting into a durable end to a war that has shaken global energy markets. Here are five things to know about the Islamabad talks. The conflict that set the stage On 28 February, the US and Israel carried out coordinated strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and hit Iran's military and nuclear…

Shielded from the freezing void outside their spacecraft, the Artemis II astronauts still face one of deep space travel’s most persistent threats: radiation. NASA is now waiting closely for data that could reveal how much exposure the crew endured and what it means for future missions. The four astronauts traveled farther into space than any humans before them, venturing more than 1,000 times farther from Earth than the International Space Station. In low Earth orbit, the planet’s magnetosphere helps blunt some of the…