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Ireland will go to the polls in a general election this month, the country's leader Simon Harris has announced. The taoiseach said the election will be held on 29 November, formally kicking off a truncated campaign which will last mere weeks. Mr Harris was appointed Irish prime minister - the youngest in the country's history - after Leo Varadkar's shock resignation in March.He will travel to Aras an Uachtarain on Friday, the official residence of the Irish president, to seek the dissolution of Ireland's Dail parliament.Mr Harris could have waited until March when the coalition's five-year term comes to an end to go to the polls, but he has been paving the way for an election in recent weeks, announcing 10.5bn euros (£8..75bn) in tax cuts and spending increases last month. "I'm looking for...

👉Listen to The World with Richard Engle and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈They said it was too close to call, but Donald Trump won decisively and is now set to return to the White House.In his victory speech he repeated his claim that he is the man who "will stop wars" and make the world a safer place.This week Richard and Yalda talk about what Trump's foreign policy could look like. When it comes to Ukraine, Israel, Iran and China how will he act? Source link

Footballer Benjamin Mendy says he is "delighted" after a judge ordered Manchester City to pay him around £8.5m - as he called on the club to "do the honourable thing".Mendy took the Premier League champions to an employment tribunal, claiming they had wrongly stopped his £500,000-a-month salary after he was charged with sex offences and remanded into custody in August 2021. The 30-year-old was subsequently cleared of all charges.Tribunal Judge Joanne Dunlop ruled on Wednesday that Mendy should be entitled to the majority of his £11m claim for unauthorised deductions from his wages by the club.His claim covered a 22-month period, five of which were when he was in custody for breaching bail conditions and therefore not entitled to pay, the judge ruled. This leaves him with around £8.5m owed,...

Usha Vance is a lawyer, a Yale graduate, the Hindu daughter of Indian immigrants - and has just become the United States' "second lady".She was thrust into the spotlight after her husband, JD Vance, was chosen as Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Almost immediately, she quit her job as a lawyer and appeared on stage to introduce him at the Republican Convention.There, she gave a flavour of her husband; a "working-class guy" who had overcome childhood traumas to attend Yale Law School.Read more:Donald Trump declares victoryRepublicans gain control of Senate for first time in four years A "meat and potatoes" man who had adapted to her vegetarian diet and learned to cook Indian food for her mother.A "tough Marine" who had served in Iraq but loved nothing more than...

Donald Trump has secured a fourth battleground state in the race for the White House, confirming his victory in the US election. Mr Trump is projected to win the crucial swing states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Democrat Kamala Harris hoped to become the first woman US president - but there is now no route for her to the White House, with Mr Trump also ahead in all three of the other battleground states.The pair went into the election neck and neck in the opinion polls and there were no major surprises in the early projected results.Follow live: Trump camp 'increasingly optimistic' Wins were predicted for Mr Trump in red states such as Florida and Texas and for Ms Harris in Democrat strongholds including New York, California and Massachusetts. ...

The US dollar has surged as Donald Trump secured a return to the White House - but there are fears the British and world economies will suffer from the president-elect's promises of new tariffs.Investors have returned to making "Trump trades" - when they bet on lower taxes and higher interest rates - on the belief he will increase tariffs on foreign imports to protect domestic industries. This will push up prices of imported goods and inflation - and increase borrowing and government debt in the US.A leading British thinktank said the UK's already slow economic growth rate is likely to be more than halved if Mr Trump imposes sweeping import tariffs.US election latest - world congratulates Trump The National Institute Of Economic And Social Research said growth in the British economy would ...

Donald Trump will return to the White House after claiming a stunning US election victory over Democrat opponent Kamala Harris.Mr Trump, who previously served as president between 2017 and 2021, picked up his first swing state after he was declared the winner of North Carolina. Around an hour later he was declared the winner of Georgia - taking back the state he narrowly lost to Joe Biden in 2020.He was projected as the winner of Pennsylvania shortly afterwards - touted as the most pivotal of the seven battleground states.Mr Trump's victory was confirmed when he surpassed 270 electoral college votes by winning the state of Wisconsin, and he remains on course to claim all seven swing states. Follow live updates: Trump wins US electionMs Harris' aides had earlier said she wouldn't speak unti...

When JD Vance says he came from nothing, he really means it.There are plenty of clichés that seemingly encapsulate how a child born in poverty can go on to become a vice presidential candidate by the age of 39; it's almost the perfect example of the "American Dream". But Donald Trump's pick for vice president is not in this position despite his challenging upbringing - in many ways, he's there because of it. Image: Mr Trump and Mr Vance shake hands at the Republican National Convention in July. Pic: Reuters This is how JD Vance took his experiences as a self-proclaimed hillbilly and used them to write a bestselling book and propel himself to the top of politics.Hillbilly Elegy In his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Mr Vance, b...

Sir Keir Starmer has joined world leaders in congratulating Donald Trump after he declared victory in the US presidential election.The UK prime minister said: "As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise." Elsewhere, Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said he looked forward to "an era of a strong United States of America under President Trump's decisive leadership".He said: "I recall our great meeting with President Trump back in September, when we discussed in detail the Ukraine-US strategic partnership, the Victory Plan, and ways to put an end to Russian aggression against Ukraine."He's joined by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's prime minister V...

Donald Trump has declared victory in the US election as he addressed jubilant supporters in Florida - but votes in key states are still being counted.Speaking at West Palm Beach, he told crowds: "Look what happened - is this crazy?" - adding: "I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honour of being elected your 47th president." He told the crowd he had won a "magnificent victory for the American people".Trump has won in the key battleground states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina - and is leading in several others - narrowing Kamala Harris's path to victory significantly.US election latest: Trump projected key wins Harris will now not address her supporters until later on Wednesday, her campaign chair has said.The vice president had been scheduled to make a spe...