Donald Trump

Trump officials' meeting with Russians in Riyadh set for Tuesday

PGA Tour board members met Trump at start of February

US view that Europe should not be part of the negotiations sparks alarm in EU capitals

The war’s end was never likely to affirm justice and international law; this will be an ugly peace

The Government cannot control what Trump will do, but it has a large agenda at home and what is happening must be a wake-up call to get on with it

Netanyahu again describes US president as the greatest friend Israel has had in the White House

European leaders to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine on Monday in Paris

Approach of new Trump administration a necessary ‘cold shower’ for EU, says Czech president

Wang Yi will travel to Dublin after telling summit European countries must have role in Ukraine talks

Trump’s glowering mugshot even hangs outside the Oval, like an Old West 'Wanted: dead or alive' poster

Marco Rubio expected to push president’s proposal to displace Palestinians in Gaza during first visit to region

UK and Polish prime ministers among leaders invited to French capital on Monday for talks amid fears US leader is sidelining allies

Ukrainian president said draft deal failed to protect his country’s interests and offered no specific security guarantees

The far right in Ireland is run by the charismatically challenged. If someone capable of stringing a sentence together emerges, that political calculus will change quickly

Rising consumer prices will limit scope for interest rate cuts and undermine election commitment

The Kennedy saga has become so embedded in the American subconscious that it can never end

A few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America

Keith Kellogg says previous peace talks failed because too many countries involved in process

Czech president says European countries cannot be excluded from Ukraine ceasefire talks if they are to take more responsibility for security

Munich Security Conference had expected to hear Trump’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine

A key risk is that Donald Trump seeks to isolate Ireland as one of his first targets, because of the huge trade deficit the US has with this State

Planet Business: Plastic straw update, Elon Musk’s 19-year-old Doge lieutenant and the latest in Gulf of America appeasement

Worldview: History suggests that such pacts with the devil end badly

Call for elite squad of Ministers to be taught to watch their tongues before targetting Donald Trump in Operation Blarney

The US-based Egyptian-Canadian’s new book reads as a break-up letter with a West that has seen a derailment of normalcy

Kentucky senator is sole voice of protest in Republican party, but blew his chance to stop Trump’s return to power

US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’

Air strikes and artillery battles shake Mezhova as Russia grinds towards Dnipropetrovsk region

The world’s richest man now holds huge sway over its most powerful leader — and the US government

Ireland has the fourth largest trade deficit with the US - and is at risk

Radio review: Odds of its hitting Earth turn out to be far shorter than those of winning Newstalk’s Cash Machine contest

Gazans need mobile homes as rain has swamped makeshift shelters and temperatures fall to 5 degrees at night

Kyiv says it will reject any Trump-Putin peace deal sealed without its input

US president said he will enact import taxes on pharmaceuticals at a later date, eyeing return of industry

President seeks to exclude eurosceptic Freedom Party from centrist coalition formation talks

The US president promises to shake up the international trade system, with potentially big implications for Ireland

Former defence secretary Ben Wallace warns against US-led ‘appeasement’ of Russia

Kennedy, a vaccine critic, confirmed by 52-48 vote, overcoming resistance from medical establishment

Analysis: Washington’s intervention has boosted Russia’s hopes of achieving two key goals of its invasion

‘Government must not lock Ireland into long-term gas addiction in short-term effort to distract US president’