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- Tsunami warning as 7.4-magnitude earthquake hits Japan April 20, 2026An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 struck northern Japan, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) has said, issuing a tsunami warning for waves up to three metres (10 feet).
- Starmer faces grilling from MPs over Mandelson scandal April 20, 2026British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will battle to save his job in parliament later by setting out further details of the "unforgivable" error by officials in not telling him Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting.
- One dead after Ukrainian drone strike in south Russia April 20, 2026A Ukrainian drone attack killed a man and wounded another in the resort city of Tuapse on the Black Sea in southern Russia, the regional governor has said.
- 'I'm living proof that kindness changes lives' April 20, 2026A woman who was born in Belarus in the aftermath of the Chornobyl nuclear accident and raised in an asylum for children has said the generosity of Irish people saved her life.
- Bulgaria's Kremlin-friendly Radev wins election April 20, 2026Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev, an EU critic who has called for renewing ties with Russia, took an absolute majority in parliamentary elections that could spell an end to the country's half-decade of political uncertainty, according to near complete vote results.
- IDF condemns soldier pictured hitting statue of Jesus April 20, 2026The Israeli army has said that an image circulating on social media that shows a soldier in south Lebanon hitting a statue of Jesus Christ is authentic and depicts one of its troops.
- Man who shot dead seven of his children in US identified April 20, 2026A man shot dead eight children - seven of them his own - in the southern US state of Louisiana in an incident of domestic violence that spanned three locations, police said.
- Israeli and Palestinian fathers campaign for peace April 20, 2026Two bereaved fathers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, are using their friendship to campaign for peace between their two nations.
- President Connolly to meet with Council of State April 19, 2026The Council of State is to meet today to consider the constitutionality of the International Protection Bill 2026.
