https://www.rte.ie/news/world/en-ieRTÉ 2026-RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, Registration No: 155076, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:46:29 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/1002/1593769-pilot-plane-attack/The pilot who was wounded during an alleged attack by his co-pilot on a flydubai flight earlier this week acted to protect the plane's passengers, he told Indian Prime Minister.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:46:29 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/1002/1593769-pilot-plane-attack/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/1002/1593737-trump-iran/US President Donald Trump has warned that Iran will be "hit very hard" if it is found to be linked to a pilot's attack on a flydubai flight to Israel.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:42:07 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/1002/1593737-trump-iran/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/1002/1593744-eu-meeting-diesel-prices/EU energy officials will meet today amid a growing standoff between Europe and the United States over diesel prices.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:42:27 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/1002/1593744-eu-meeting-diesel-prices/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/1002/1593734-southkorea-ukraine/South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has threatened unspecified measures against Ukraine unless Kyiv acknowledged a confidentiality agreement that Seoul says covered the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers and issued an apology.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:37:57 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/1002/1593734-southkorea-ukraine/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593746-openai-staff-fired/ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said that it has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling "sensitive information" and violating company policies, including work that involved an external organisation that evaluates artificial intelligence models.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:51:25 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593746-openai-staff-fired/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593742-us-executions/The unprecedented botched execution of a woman in Tennessee has reignited the debate over execution methods in the United States - which varies from lethal injection to firing squads.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:28:10 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593742-us-executions/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593739-europe-heat-climate-weather/A record 52% of Europe was exposed to intense heat stress during the exceptionally hot summer that seared the continent this year, the EU's climate monitor has said.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:12:06 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593739-europe-heat-climate-weather/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593738-christa-pike-execution/Christa Pike is critically ill and receiving "life-saving medical care" in a Nashville hospital hours after she survived two attempts to execute her with lethal injections, her lawyers said, renewing scrutiny of ⁠capital punishment in the US.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:43:56 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1002/1593738-christa-pike-execution/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593579-israel-plane-flydubai/Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will get to the "root" of the co-pilot who engaged ⁠in a foiled attempt to crash an Israel-bound flydubai flight.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:33:09 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593579-israel-plane-flydubai/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593576-france-students-protest/Pupils protest over timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers with the government accusing hard-left politicians of encouraging the unrest.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:44:21 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593576-france-students-protest/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593575-christa-pike/A condemned female murderer who survived two attempted lethal injections during a botched execution by the US state of Tennessee was in critical condition and receiving "life-saving care", her lawyer said.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:19:16 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593575-christa-pike/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593584-us-trump-ai-chatbot/The US government's AI chatbot has stopped answering some political questions after it drew attention for contradicting some of President Donald Trump's contentious political claims.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:18:52 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593584-us-trump-ai-chatbot/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593714-raf-fairford-incident/A dual UK-Iranian national has become the sixth person to be arrested in connection with the suspected RAF Fairford terror plot.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:11:58 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593714-raf-fairford-incident/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593580-swiss-glaciers/Switzerland's glaciers, which are disproportionately impacted by climate change, have lost nearly 20% of their mass in five years, experts have said, with 2026 registering the second-biggest melt on record.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:47:32 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1001/1593580-swiss-glaciers/Climate Changehttps://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2026/1001/1593666-ukraine-russia/A Russian drone smashed into a school ⁠in Kyiv and set it ablaze this morning, but no pupils were injured, according to Ukrainian authorities.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:13:15 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2026/1001/1593666-ukraine-russia/Ukrainehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593453-pilot-fight/Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that one of the pilots of a flydubai plane bound for Tel Aviv had planned to crash it and kill its mostly Israeli passengers, who stopped a "major disaster".Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:53 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593453-pilot-fight/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593433-iran-voters/Iran has said it had received a US response to its latest proposal to resurrect the collapsed ceasefire in the Gulf, days after President Donald ⁠Trump said he had rejected it.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:46:36 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593433-iran-voters/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0930/1593573-google-ai-model/Google said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:38:07 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0930/1593573-google-ai-model/Businesshttps://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0930/1593560-gaza-israel-attacks/Israeli attacks have killed at least seven Palestinians in two separate attacks in Gaza, the territory's health officials said.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:20:48 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0930/1593560-gaza-israel-attacks/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593502-pilot-tried-crash-israel-flight/A passenger who was on board a plane that was diverted after a co-pilot reportedly attacked the pilot and tried to crash the plane has said the plane was "pretty much out of control" when the stabbing took place over Jordan on the flydubai flight's path from Dubai to Tel Aviv.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:58:22 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593502-pilot-tried-crash-israel-flight/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593436-christa-pike/A US court has halted the execution of a woman in Tennessee shortly before she was due to die from lethal injection, three decades after she murdered a classmate.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:59:10 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593436-christa-pike/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593495-blind-man-bayeux-tapestry/The British Museum is facing legal action over its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, with lawyers representing a blind man alleging the museum is breaching equalities laws ⁠by not providing audio described tours.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:51:44 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593495-blind-man-bayeux-tapestry/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0929/1593417-burnham-brexit-eu/UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces pressure to commit Labour to rejoining the EU after he promised to look at all options for a closer relationship with the bloc.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:53:53 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0929/1593417-burnham-brexit-eu/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0930/1593556-fairford-terror-plot/British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said there are "strong indications" Iran played a part in a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:59:27 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0930/1593556-fairford-terror-plot/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593468-russia-ukraine/Russia has unleashed a widely anticipated ⁠air campaign against Ukraine's energy grid, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:06:29 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593468-russia-ukraine/Ukrainehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593431-dmz-blasts/South Korea's military has demanded an apology from North Korea, blaming Pyongyang for a 21 September explosion that severely injured three South Korean soldiers inside the countries' Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:20:21 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593431-dmz-blasts/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0929/1593421-ai-trump/Donald Trump has stressed self-regulation over government rules at a major gathering of AI executives and government officials at the White House.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:47:50 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0929/1593421-ai-trump/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593475-russia-issues-nato-nuclear-warning-amid-baltic-tensions/Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear ⁠weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:03:22 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593475-russia-issues-nato-nuclear-warning-amid-baltic-tensions/NATOhttps://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0929/1593290-uk-air-base/One of the men arrested over a suspected terror plot near an RAF base used by the US called the police in the early hours of Sunday, it is understood.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:28:32 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0929/1593290-uk-air-base/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0929/1593288-us-iran/US President Donald ⁠Trump has said he has offered Iran nothing to end the war, rejecting media reports that cited US officials saying he was willing to ease sanctions and release frozen funds for "concrete" steps regarding Iran's nuclear programme.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:04:33 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0929/1593288-us-iran/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0929/1593293-anthropic-risks/Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or ⁠existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:07:47 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0929/1593293-anthropic-risks/Businesshttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593429-ceuta-crisis/European countries should have shown more solidarity and offered more support to Spain after the mass arrival in Ceuta of tens of thousands of migrants, Spanish King Felipe VI said during a gala dinner to mark a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:12:47 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593429-ceuta-crisis/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593552-what-happened-flyubai-plane/A plane heading to Tel Aviv from Dubai was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after one of the pilots allegedly tried to crash the plane and kill everyone onboard.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:00:10 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0930/1593552-what-happened-flyubai-plane/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0929/1593289-openai-safety-concerns/OpenAI will not release its newest artificial intelligence model, known as Astra 6.1, after internal testing by the ChatGPT-maker revealed it did not meet safety standards, the company confirmed.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:34:13 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0929/1593289-openai-safety-concerns/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0929/1593302-madrid-pensioner-evicted/Spain's coalition government has said it had agreed proposals including banning evictions until 2030 to address the country's housing crisis.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:53:58 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0929/1593302-madrid-pensioner-evicted/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0929/1593309-israel-gaza/Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli fire today killed at least six people, including a Hamas commander, confirming an earlier report from the Israeli military.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:36:20 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0929/1593309-israel-gaza/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0928/1593141-politics-europe-ukraine/The Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee has said the issue of several hundred billion euro in frozen Russian assets should be "kept on the table" as the EU looks for ways to meet Ukraine's defence needs as winter approaches.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:24:34 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0928/1593141-politics-europe-ukraine/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593267-deadly-russian-strikes-kill-five-and-target-kyiv-academy/Russian drone attack damages Kyiv's science academy as strikes across Ukraine kill five people and wound many more.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:56:55 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593267-deadly-russian-strikes-kill-five-and-target-kyiv-academy/Ukrainehttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0928/1593279-pope-leo-france/Pope Leo XIV wrapped up a historic four-day visit to France today after warning that relations between nations were becoming increasingly uncivilised and urging Europe to help break the spiral of "lies and deceit".Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:11:13 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0928/1593279-pope-leo-france/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0928/1593177-madrid-housing-protests/Protesters have begun a third day camped outside the administration of the Madrid region to object to the eviction of an octogenarian and demand stronger protection for tenants in the face of ⁠a lack of housing and soaring rents.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:03:53 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0928/1593177-madrid-housing-protests/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593259-spacex-starship-makes-orbit-deploys-first-payload/SpaceX's Starship overcame an engine problem to reach orbit and deploy Starlink satellites on its first payload mission.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:51:34 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593259-spacex-starship-makes-orbit-deploys-first-payload/Businesshttps://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0927/1593085-iran-us-world/Iran insisted that only diplomacy can solve its conflict with the United States and Israel after US President Donald Trump said he rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end fighting.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:01:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2026/0927/1593085-iran-us-world/Middle Easthttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0927/1593116-pope-france/Pope Leo has urged the Catholic Church to admit its own failings ⁠and heal "deep wounds" inflicted within its ranks, hours before he was set to meet victims of child abuse by priests in France.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:15:35 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0927/1593116-pope-france/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0926/1593059-pope-leo-france/Crowds stretched the length of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, as Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to find happiness in faith, not material things, at the biggest event of his visit to France, an outdoor Mass with an estimated 800,000 people.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:22:05 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0926/1593059-pope-leo-france/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0928/1593142-pope-france-europe/Pope Leo has said ⁠that negotiators seeking to end war in Europe must be willing to sacrifice some positions to achieve peace, as efforts to end Russia's bloody war in Ukraine continue to fail.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:26:02 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0928/1593142-pope-france-europe/Europehttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593261-bardella-antisemitic-comments/A French investigative website has alleged that far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella made antisemitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen dismissed the claims as fakeMon, 28 Sep 2026 17:54:26 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593261-bardella-antisemitic-comments/Worldhttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593146-trump-ai/US President Donald Trump has confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO ⁠Dario Amodei, but reaffirmed his stance against slowing the pace of AI development.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:15:01 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593146-trump-ai/UShttps://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593192-what-is-known-about-arrests-at-us-airbase-in-britain/Five men were arrested near RAF Fairford after reports of suspicious vehicles sparked a major security operation.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:14:27 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0928/1593192-what-is-known-about-arrests-at-us-airbase-in-britain/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0927/1593110-uk-air-base/British police arrested five men near a US air base on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences after a tip-off that three vans had been heading to the military airfield which has been used to strike Iran.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:33:30 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0927/1593110-uk-air-base/UKhttps://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0926/1593034-openai-leaked-images/OpenAI has revealed that its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users, as it continues to investigate its AI agents acting improperly.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:50:13 +0100https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0926/1593034-openai-leaked-images/World