EU to freeze Putin’s assets as Coveney warns of ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine

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Russian president Vladimir Putin has had his assets frozen by EU. File photo: Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

The European Union is to freeze the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in fresh sanctions set to be agreed by the 27 today, Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said.

I'm usually an ADIEU person, but to mix it up, I sometimes start with CHAOS. If that objectively strange (and definitely confusing) sentence makes sense, then you are probably one of the millions who begin or end their day with Wordle.

Comments from University College Dublin (UCD) president Andrew Deeks, that concerns about a controversial Chinese institute on its campus were "misguided", have been described as "worrying" by senior academics.

Netflix has introduced global audiences to the joys of Scandi Noir, French whodunnits, Spanish heists and South Korean quiz-show torture porn. But its all-conquering machine-mind has come up against something many times more confounding in Brendan O'Carroll's Mrs Brown, who guest stars in the new movie from African-American comedian Tyler Perry.

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Actor Sean Pennis on the ground in Ukraine making a documentary about the Russian invasion, Vice Studios confirmed to Variety on Thursday, as Russia began a full-scale attack on its neighbour.

A senior lawyer has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Keith Conlon who was shot on farmland near Tallaght, Dublin, earlier this week.

Very soon, the Arts Council should receive a reportfrom independent auditors Mazars on finance and governance at the Abbey Theatre, arising from payments to its former co-directors, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray.

The singer Mark Lanegan, who has died unexpectedly at his home in Killarney, Co Kerry aged 57, was the quintessential grunge-era icon.

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Johnny Marr, still as thin as a whippet, is holding solitary court in his spartan, white-walled studios "on the outskirts of Manchester, a big old factory built in about 1885. I'm on the top floor."