The Taliban have begun entering the Afghan capital Kabul from all sides, the Afghan interior ministry said today, as US and European Union staff sought safety.

Rescue workers were scrambling to find survivors after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake.

The Department of Foreign Affairs says it's "gravely concern at the speed and scale of the Taliban's offensive" and the impact of the current violence on the Afghan people.

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At least 22 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon early on Sunday, the health minister said.

Torrential rain lashed much of Japan today, flooding roads and buildings in the western part of the country, while three people were feared dead after a landslide in central Nagano prefecture.

The incidence of Covid-19 is rising across all ages groups and in all parts of the country, according to the Chair of NPHET's Epidemiological Modelling Group Professor Philip Nolan, with 2,074 new cases reported today.

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Irish Olympian Jack Woolley has been injured following an incident in Dublin in the early hours of this morning.

Tyrone have said they want to play their All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Kerry and have urged Croke Park to give them more time for players to recover from Covid-19.

People are being advised not to book flights or holidays until they have been issued with a valid passport, as the Passport Office is currently experiencing what it has described as "peak demand" for its services.

Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has announced tighter Covid restrictions as authorities battled to contain a Delta variant outbreak and said they were seeing the "most concerning day of the pandemic" so far.

Journalist Sayed Farid Sanai left his home country of Afghanistan and came to live in Ireland in 2019. Here, in his own words, he tells his story of the haunting images of war back home.

Irish Paralympian Patrick Flanagan has had to secure a replacement wheelchair after his was badly damaged in transit on his journey to Tokyo.

Taliban forces have captured the major city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, sending Afghan forces fleeing, and drew closer to Kabul, where Western countries have scrambled to evacuate their citizens from the capital.

A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck Haiti, killing at least 227 people and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake.

A water-dropping plane with eight people on board has crashed in southern Turkey, where it was battling a wildfire.

Nearly two million people were urged to seek shelter as torrential rain triggered floods and landslides in western Japan, leaving at least one person dead and three missing.

Police in South Africa have arrested a Vietnamese man and seized about 60 kilos of lion claws, teeth and other items following a four-month probe into wildlife trafficking, the government said.

The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a new terrorism threat advisory ahead of the anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks and during a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic.