Four years of war in Ukraine, learner driver believed to have killed 16-year-old in Navan, and Peter Madelson arrested

Today marks 4 years since Russia mounted its invasion of Ukraine. On a visit to Kyiv today the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hoped to announce a €90 billion loan to help Ukraine continue fighting, but Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is blocking the money over a damaged oil pipeline delivering Russian oil via Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia.The EU parliament’s trade committee was due to vote on removing tariffs on US industrial goods, a key part of the deal struck with Donald Trump last summer. But its delayed the vote after the US Supreme Court ruled Trump’s global tariffs were illegal because he didn’t gain congressional approval.Gardaí believe the driver accused of killing 16-year-old Mia Lily Keogh O’Keeffe in Navan was an unaccompanied learner. She is one of seven people killed on the roads across the Island of Ireland at the weekend.Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He’s accused of handing sensitive UK government files to Jeffrey Epstein.Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese says a record number of converts attended its latest “rite of election” ceremony in St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday.Nancy Guithrie is an elderly woman who’s been missing from her home in Arizona since 31st January. The Irish Times In The News podcast speaks to a reporter in Arizona about what police think happened to her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.