Gardaí believe they have dealt a significant blow to a large drug-dealing network in Cork following a series of dawn raids.

Authorities have seized a gold bar, luxury cars, dozens of paintings, property, jewellery and bank accounts as well as data from thousands of account holders.

The number of suspects detained in Turkey in a major police operation against the Islamic State terror group over the weekend has increased to nearly 750, authorities said on Monday.

Gardaí in Dublin have carried out a series of raids targeting the Kinahan gang this morning.

Over 137,000 smuggled cigarettes have been seized in raids at Dublin Airport and Ferry Port.

Fifteen people have been arrested in Belgium - some on suspicion of recruiting others to join Islamic State in Syria.

Gardaí and officers from Spain's Guardia Civil carried out co-ordinated dawn raids in both countries as part of an international investigation into the Kinahan crime cartel, a press briefing in Dublin was told today.

Update 12.40pm: A man has been arrested in Malaga in connection with the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain last year.

Gardaí this morning carried out raids in Dublin city seizing drugs, cash, stolen property and an Audi A3.

Anti-terror police in Belgium have taken two people into custody in overnight raids.

German authorities are carrying out raids across the country after the government banned a right-wing extremist group called Weisse Woelfe Terrorcrew.

Hundreds of thousands of revellers have partied at the soggy finale of the Notting Hill Carnival.