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GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
A human-created famine was formally declared in Gaza yesterday as thousands of people starve amid Israel’s bombardment and blocking of aid.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said Israel now has “an absolute obligation to allow the people there unfettered and urgent access to humanitarian aid, medical and food supplies”.
“The withholding of food and water from civilians is collective punishment of the people of Gaza, and a war crime,” he said.
An agreement by Uisce Éireann to connect a new Supermac’s motorway plaza to the water network in Ennis, Co Clare is heading for the courts in what’s believed to be one of the first such challenges of its kind.
Campaign group Friends of the Irish Environment has launched the High Court action against Uisce Éireann over its recent connection agreement for a major motorway service station development.
The Labour Party has called for an “urgent overhaul” of the “failing” school transport system.
Labour’s Education Spokesperson Eoghan Kenny said this call follows a “surge in complaints from parents who cannot secure bus places for their children”.
He said that the Minister for Education, Helen McEntee, “must act without delay to fix a scheme that is leaving working families stranded”.
A man been arrested after two men were hospitalised with serious injuries following an assault in Dublin City centre yesterday evening.
Gardaí responded to a report of a serious assault on Sean McDermott Street Upper, Dublin 1 shortly after 5.30pm.
Two men, both aged in their 20s, were brought to the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
Five passengers aboard a tourist bus have died after a crash on a New York state highway.
The wreck happened 40 kilometres east of the city of Buffalo as tourists were heading back to New York City after visiting Niagara Falls.
A US judicial commission has denied parole for Joseph Lyle Menendez, a day after his brother Erik was also ordered to stay in prison for the murder of their parents in a Beverly Hills mansion more than three decades ago.
A California panel ordered the 57-year-old, who goes by his middle name, to remain behind bars along with his younger sibling, defying a campaign for their freedom waged by family, friends and celebrities including Kim Kardashian.
A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in west Belfast this week.
A man, aged 32, was arrested on suspicion of murder. He has since been charged with murder and possession of a blade or point and is expected to appear before Lisburn Magistrates’ Court today.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been questioned at length about the UK’s Prince Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, transcripts released by the US Justice Department have revealed.
The transcripts, published yesterday, show the convicted sex trafficker insisting she did not introduce Andrew to disgraced financier Epstein and that his alleged sexual intercourse with Virginia Giuffre in her house could not have happened.
As Donald Trump spoke to Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, he was pressed by European leaders to push for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Responding to the calls for a ceasefire, he claimed: “I’ve ended six wars… all of these deals I made without even the mention of the word ‘ceasefire’.”
Can Trump in fact claim credit for ending these conflicts?
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