Ireland's EU Commissioner Michael McGrath has launched the so-called Democracy Shield, the EU's latest effort to combat electoral disinformation and interference, including the rise in AI deep fakes.

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today

Illegal Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during October, marking the highest monthly total si...

In early October 2025, the accounts of three major Palestinian human rights organisations vanished from YouTube, resulting in the removal of over 700 videos ...

Online sales platform Shein said on Tuesday it would "cooperate fully" with a French investigation into the sale of childlike sex dolls on its site, adding that it would provide the names of customers who bought such dolls if asked.

A network of businesspeople and online commentators campaigned for voters to spoil their ballots as a form of protest. Here's who they are — and how they became part of the movement

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has entered a Paris jail where he will serve a five-year sentence over seeking to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run.

A top health official in Gaza said signs of torture, burns, and organ theft were found on the bodies of Palestinian detainees returned by Israel under a ceas...

More than 2,500 demonstrations have taken place across the United States, to express opposition to the policies of US President Donald Trump.

Europe's First Digital Identity Protection Law Tackles the Deepfake Crisis Denmark is poised to become the first European nation to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and ...

Big Brother Watch finds 40 of 47 uses of new power were at Gaza protest, with zero arrests suggesting ‘no justification’ The Metropolitan police have used controversial powers to stop and search protesters almost 50 times since they were introduced, with nearly all instances at a peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration, a civil liberties group has found. Police in England and Wales can carry out suspicionless stop and searches in relation to protest activity under section 11 of the Public Order Act 2023, which came into force on 20 December 2023. Continue reading...

Several current and former Reuters journalists have spoken out about what they describe as a pro-Israel bias in the agency’s coverage of Gaza. A report by De...

Famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next month, a global hunger monitor determined today.