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Russell Brand granted bail after appearing in court over rape and sexual assault charges

Brand’s charges, which he denies, relate to four separate women more than two decades ago

Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against Houthis tests his vow to ‘stop wars’

The US is conducting its largest bombardment since the war on Isis – without a clear endgame

Sixteen EU states seeking budget exemption so they can boost defence spending

Germany and Poland among those seeking leeway on bloc’s rules limiting deficits

Kneecap videos to be investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police

Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’

Kneecap Cornwall gig cancelled, as British government warns Glastonbury organisers to ‘think carefully’ about proceeding with band

Families of murdered MPs reject band’s ‘half an apology’

Work abroad can help boost your Irish state pension

How foreign social insurance contributions are factored into your Irish State pension calculation depends on where you worked

John FitzGerald: Irish unification would hit South harder than 2008 crash

Republic’s prosperity may make a united Ireland look attractive to many in the North but but the cost would be very high for southerners

Remains of Roman gladiator attacked by a lion in combat shows ‘brutality of spectacle’, Irish scientists find

Remains found in York show brutality of spectacles staged far beyond the heart of the Roman empire 

There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spaces

UK ruling on meaning of ‘woman’ is reassuring for those alarmed by claims that gender is, somehow, entirely separate from sex and is a social, psychological construct

Londoners and tourists mourn Pope Francis amid Catholicism’s unexpected renaissance in Britain

Pope Francis was remembered at Westminster Cathedral, home to resurgent Catholicism in England and Wales

Irishman shot dead by UK police was ‘special person’, brother tells funeral

About 100 people gathered in Galway for the funeral of David Joyce (38)

Painter Francis Bacon’s childhood home on the market in Dublin for €1.6m

Plus: Big moves for Irish abroad, and the shadowy boffins taking over League of Ireland fantasy football

Irish and British futures are codependent and entangled

Worldview: Running through contemporary debates is a battle between those who say reconciliation should come before constitutional change and those who argue for the reverse

The reality of life at ‘just’ 1.5 degrees of warming

While politicians across Europe skirt their climate commitments, millions of people are already at risk from increasingly chaotic and dangerous weather events

UK supreme court’s biological sex ruling disappoints trans activists, lets off politicians

Trans activists will be disappointed, but the ruling gives cover to Britain’s Labour government

‘Have you watched Adolescence yet?’ - Life imitates art for Kemi Badenoch

Party colleagues fear her low-wattage turn as Tory leader could spell trouble

‘We cannot resign ourselves to inevitable conflict’: EU and UK look to end war in Sudan and boost aid

But Khartoum criticises London conference as representatives from both sides in civil war not invited

Record number of migrants cross English Channel in first four months of year

Arrival of 656 people on 11 boats on Saturday is highest number for a single day this year

British plan to take control of steelworks from Chinese owners is approved by MPs

Emergency legislation stops short of full nationalisation of British Steel

Who was David Joyce, the Galway man shot dead by UK police at a busy train station?

Joyce, a gay man from a Traveller background with mental health difficulties, will be repatriated to be buried by his family in Ireland

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