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Environmental activists have urged the Government to act fast on fossil fuels as they head for New York for talks on global climate action.

A fortnight ago US president Joe Biden said he was not worried about a threatened strike by car workers and that he did not think it would actually happen.

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Gardaí have issued an urgent appeal for public assistance amid growing fears for the safety and wellbeing of a 47-year-old man who hasn't been seen since he left a homeless shelter in Cork more than two weeks ago.

The State's Land Development Agency (LDA) has told RTÉ that it must be given the first refusal on the purchase of the broadcaster's base in Montrose, Dublin 4, in the event that it is put on the market, the Business Post reports.

There is a surreal moment halfway through Channel 4's Dispatches investigation of comedian Russell Brand in which the filmmakers submit a request for information from the station about Brand's time at the broadcaster. Channel 4's response is that it cannot comply because of data protection safeguards. Britain's most radical television network is looking itself in the mirror and shaking its head.

Jann Wenner, co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, has been removed from the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation a day after an interview with him was published in the New York Times in which he made comments that were widely criticised as sexist and racist.

Ireland will play a key role over the coming days in seeking to secure international momentum at the United Nations on achieving international development goals such as the elimination of poverty and implementing social justice.

Saad Eddin Ismail left his home in Darfur, Sudan, six years ago, on a long quest to find safety.

Russia has carried out a missile strike on a plant in the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv where armoured vehicles for Ukraine's military are repaired, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.

People whose homes were swept away by flooding in Libya's eastern city of Derna a week ago faced the dilemma on Sunday of whether to stay despite a lack of fresh water or flee through areas where landmines have been displaced by the torrents.

The body of an Irish man in his 40s was found on a beach in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastián on Friday morning.

European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen visited Italy's island of Lampedusa on Sunday after Giorgia Meloni's called for extraordinary measures to curb a surge in migrants from northern Africa.

New Zealand's Ryan Fox staged a brilliant comeback to win the BMW PGA Championship as rising star Ludvig Åberg was brought down to earth at Wentworth.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is on his way home from Russia, ending a six-day trip that triggered global concerns about weapons transfer deals between the two countries locked in separate standoffs with the West.

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A sartorial spat has erupted between India's opposition and prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government over the redesigned uniforms for male staff in the country's new parliament building. The uniforms conspicuously feature the lotus flower, which is also the ruling Hindu nationalist party's electoral symbol.

The Conservative party "has had it" and the next British government will likely be led by Labour, according to the United Kingdom's foremost elections sage John Curtice.

Sitting MEPs Ciarán Cuffe and Grace O'Sullivan and Senator Pauline O'Reilly will contest the European elections for the Green Party next June, the party has announced.

No horse has followed up St Leger success by landing the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the same season but Continuous could get the chance to create history in Paris on Sunday week.

Mason Greenwood was greeted with chants calling for him to die from visiting supporters as he returned to the field for the first time in a year and a half but was defended by his own fans – and inside seven minutes had won the corner from which Getafe scored the winner against Osasuna at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez.

Billionaire businessman Luke Comer has claimed to have already spent €1.4 million fighting Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) charges that last week culminated in him being banned from training for three years after 12 of his horses tested positive for anabolic steroids.

RTÉ has suspended a controversial €240,000 tender process for photographers to take pictures on the set of soap Fair City.

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Pádraic Maher's Thurles Sarsfields will face Loughmore-Castleiney in the Tipperary senior hurling championship semi-finals, after his side's comprehensive 0-24 to 1-12 victory over Drom & Inch on Sunday.

Vuelta a España winner Sepp Kuss's team-mate Jonas Vingegaard has said that the American's surprise win in the race has earned him the right to take on bigger targets in upcoming seasons, even if that impacts on the help he provides the Danish rider.

"There is this weird sense of trepidation around this one," Jacqui Hurley had said to Jamie Heaslip ahead of our World Cup our tussle with Tonga, but come full-time there was a danger that the nation would be pondering where the Webb Ellis Cup will be housed during its four-year stay in Ireland.

Having stated on Friday that injury had ruled Sinead Farrelly out of the Republic of Ireland's two forthcoming Nations League games, the Football Association of Ireland had some clarifying to do after the midfielder came on as a 78th minute substitute for NJ/NY Gotham FC in their NWSL meeting with Washington Spirit on Saturday.

President Joe Biden gave a speech on Bidenomics at a community college in a Washington suburb on Thursday.

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