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Russian leader ‘a dictator bent on rebuilding an empire’ says Biden in Polish speech
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Haiti braces for storm Grace as PM warns earthquake death toll could rise
Tropical depression could pass over areas already hit by Saturday’s quake that killed at least 1,297
Thinking deeply about the things many ignore
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Samantha Power sworn in as head of US international aid agency
Former ambassador to UN pays tribute to Kamala Harris as she takes oath of office
Joe Biden expected to recognise massacre of Armenians as genocide
Move on anniversary of killing of estimated 1.5m civilians indicative of strained Turkey relations
Taoiseach and Biden to hold virtual meeting on St Patrick’s Day
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Photographic record of Covid-dominated year to be prepared by press photographers
Annual awards ceremony on live stream from Dublin city centre on Friday evening
How Irish America will be at the heart of the Biden administration
With several Irish Americans in president-elect’s cabinet, Ireland’s position is stronger
Samantha Power chosen by Biden to lead top US development agency
Dublin-born academic ‘will rally the international community’, says president-elect
Musk’s money, Santa’s immunity and Blinken’s Brexit analogy
Planet Business: Jay-Z is to become ‘chief visionary officer’ of a cannabis company
Trump fires election security official, claiming he made ‘highly inaccurate’ assertions
Chris Krebs dismissed via Twitter after statement saying election was most secure in US history
Miriam Lord: Taoiseach and Tánaiste see red over ‘Level 5 leak’
Leo rages at public health chief; Cap’n Grealish frets about the arts; Harris and Holohan framed
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‘We are on this desperate search for our psyche ... It just happens to all be contained within the language’
Galway International Arts Festival: Like a phoenix from the flames
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
‘Micheál Martin has a number of very significant enemies in Fianna Fáil’
The Irish Times political team discuss the sacking of Barry Cowen, at an Inside Politics event
Anne Enright: ‘I looked at how men manage their confidence and took a few leads’
The author appeared at The Irish Times Summer Nights Festival on Wednesday evening
David McWilliams: ‘Ireland is three decisions away from being a perfect country’
McWilliams and Dermot Bannon were the first guests at the Irish Times Summer Nights Festival
Fintan O’Toole: In the US, the 19th century is coming to a very slow end
The unfinished business of slavery, emancipation and Civil War is still playing itself out
Small nations expect Ireland to be ‘pebble in shoe’ on UN Security Council
Coveney wants to stay on in foreign affairs brief after ‘all-consuming’ work on Brexit
‘Gross incompetence’: Ex-Obama adviser blasts Trump’s Covid-19 response
Samantha Power tells Hay festival that former US administration underestimated how ‘ripped off’ Americans felt
Trump turns to ‘Obamagate’ as central plank of his re-election strategy
Emergence of conspiracy theory allows president rewrite history of the Russia investigation
Nollaig na mBan 2020: Margaret Atwood’s princess-dress epiphany
For Women’s Christmas, The Women’s Podcast hears about some light-bulb moments
Marty Morrissey helpless mirth gets trumped by melancholy
Radio review: RTÉ’s preview of 2020 turns unexpectedly sombre, as Second Captains get more sport from a determined diplomat
Miriam O’Callaghan is rendered powerless by Danny Healy-Rae
Radio review: Her interview with minister Eoghan Murphy is more reconciliation than rematch
Turkey’s whitewashed version of history takes a battering
Europe Letter: Sanitised narrative of Armenia informs Ankara’s targeting of Kurds
Samantha Power and the power of ideals
As Barack Obama’s choice as next US ambassador to the UN, Irish-born Samantha Power faces many challenges
Samantha Power: I called Hillary Clinton a monster, but I didn’t mean it
Obama’s UN ambassador on her traumatic Irish childhood, Trump and ‘that’ interview
Kofi Annan era was the UN at its best and its worst
Diplomat was last secretary general to seem like a central player in international drama
Dutch still furious with ‘great powers’ about Srebrenica
Hague Letter: US, Britain and France failed to support UN peacekeepers by air
Trump appoints Dublin woman to senior White House role
Dalkey native Gail Slater to advise US president on technology and cybersecurity
The Final Year review: documentary about Barack Obama full of spin
Obama gave the filmmakers ‘unprecedented’ access. They made a weak documentary
US exits talks on migration as ‘sovereignty’ paramount
Delegation to United Nations indicates contentious decision made by President Trump
Samantha Power: ‘Being the only woman in the UN made me a feminist’
Women’s Podcast: Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations speaks to Kathy Sheridan
Samantha Power: ‘Trump? He’s just a hack, an actor, a performer’
The Irish born academic and former US ambassador to the UN on how she became one of the most powerful women in American foreign affairs, her thoughts on the current president and how her roots are firmly in Ireland
Samantha Power: I would consider running for public office in US
Former ambassador to UN says she is fearful of Trump’s response to terror attack on US
Trump criticised by Irish born ex-US ambassador for pandering to right wing extremists
Samantha Power says pardon of controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio affirms right wing’s views
‘It still hasn’t dawned on Sorcha that Honor is the wrong crowd’
First day in ‘actual Mount Anville’, but the last thing Honor needs is a chaperone
Why Kim Kardashian’s a fan of Irishman Terry George’s new film
At the core of The Promise is the first World War genocide of the Kardashians’ fellow Armenians, a cause close to the family's heart
Nikki Haley: the unexpected rise of Trump’s woman at the UN
US ambassador is in the spotlight but she has not always seen eye to eye with her boss
Democrats seek Republican support to block immigration order
Opposition grows to US ban on nationals from predominantly Muslim countries
Challenge is to mark Civil War in same tolerant way as 1916
Planned Parenthood centenary a timely reminder that diaspora has wider focus
Israel rejects ‘shameful’ UN resolution condemning settlements
Security council demands all building in occupied territories halted after US refuses to veto
UN Security Council urges monitoring of Aleppo evacuation
Council overcomes long-held divisions to adopt resolution to oversee safety of civilians
Thousands evacuated from Aleppo after new deal
UN Security Council agrees resolution for officials to monitor evacuations in Syrian city
The boy, the ambassador, and the fatal encounter on the road
Villagers cheering a US convoy in Cameroon watched in horror as a child was struck and killed
Negotiations ongoing over evacuation of Aleppo
Thousands of cold, scared and injured people are still in east Aleppo waiting to leave
Syrian government forces set to regain control of Aleppo
UN official says offensive by Assad forces ‘a complete meltdown of humanity’
Trump adds diversity with picks of Haley, Carson and DeVos
South Carolina governor, a former critic of president-elect, becomes UN ambassador
Hospitals in Aleppo overwhelmed by wounded
More air strikes reported in Syrian army offensive as Russia ignores Western pleas
One small step: The release of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova
Azerbaijan government responds to global condemnation of its detention of journalists, rights activists and political opponents
Vehicle in convoy of Samantha Power kills boy (7) in Cameroon
US Ambassador to UN was visiting to showcase efforts to protect West African women
Baath expected to maintain dominance as Syria goes to polls
Anti-Assad opposition and their allies denounce elections as a sham
Lara Marlowe: Obama stands over Middle East policy that unleashed horrors
Hopes for a free and democratic Arab world have drowned in the blood of 470,000 dead Syrians
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