Should Ireland pass the Occupied Territories Bill? Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy and former ambassador Daniel Mulhall debate
Contentious proposed law would ban trade with Israeli firms operating in occupied Palestinian territory
United Nations (UN)
UN predicts world economic growth to remain at 2.8% in 2025
Expansion to continue at slower pace than before the Covid pandemic
Election of Joseph Aoun ends Lebanon’s two years without a president
UN official calls on new president to appoint a prime minister, after two years of caretaker cabinet
Irish ICJ submission on Gaza asks UN court to consider repeated human rights violations as suggestive of genocide
Ireland says inference can be drawn from a state’s actions that it is guilty of genocide even where no direct evidence of such a policy is produced
Iran executed more than 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women, says UN
Year-on-year rise in executions ‘deeply disturbing’, says UN human rights commissioner Volker Türk
Ireland’s future weather will be even warmer and wetter than predicted, scientists warn
Supercomputer helps deliver more accurate indication of what the future holds for Ireland’s climate with new indications on regional impacts
Newborn freezes to death in Gaza as thousands of displaced face winter cold and heavy rain
Jumaa al-Batran is one of six Palestinians who have died of exposure and cold in recent days
Israel’s hospital attacks have put Gaza healthcare on brink of collapse, says UN
New report catalogues besieging and targeting of hospitals with explosives and killing of medical staff
Israel warns Houthis they risk sharing same ‘miserable fate’ as Hamas and Hizbullah
UN hears Israel has the ability to strike any target in the Middle East, including Iran
Mary Robinson was blocked by Government from taking up UN role in 1993
Dick Spring warned dual role would clash with public’s understanding of presidency as ‘total’ role
‘Like a creeping coup’: In Pakistan, lack of internet access is costing livelihoods
Country has a track record of curbing online accessibility by banning social media sites or shutting the internet off entirely
The world is no longer multipolar - it is ‘multiplex’
Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements
Top US officials meet new Syrian rulers
US diplomats discuss transition principles with representatives of Syria’s new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Greece takes a global leadership role, but faces harsh domestic struggles
Neither neoliberalism nor the ‘radical left’ seems able to solve the problem in most Greek people’s minds: the almost unbearable increases in the cost of living
Family of Pte Seán Rooney have no ‘iota’ what is in UN investigation report into his death
Solicitor for family says full report should be released to them into death of soldier in Lebanon two years ago
Irish company leveraging AI to help brands communicate climate actions responsibly and avoid claims of greenwashing
Marketing platform UnitMode aims to ‘supercharge consumer-powered climate innovation’
Syria: Rebel and government forces continue battles near city of Hama
Country’s long-running civil war has killed hundreds of thousands since erupting in 2011 in rebellion against president Bashar al-Assad
Unrwa suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza route after convoy attacked
Head of UN agency calls on Israel to ‘ensure aid flows into Gaza safely’ and to ‘refrain from attacks on humanitarian workers’
What does the ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah entail and will it succeed?
Hizbullah has dropped demand that a ceasefire in Lebanon is contingent on ending fighting in Gaza
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military leader over Rohingya campaign
Myanmar rulers deny allegations, saying security forces were carrying out legitimate operations against militants who attacked police posts
More than 1,000 doctors and nurses killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in past year, officials say
More than 310 other medical personnel ‘arrested, tortured and executed in prisons’, Hamas-run health authorities say
Cop29 deal which includes new ‘climate finance goal’ criticised as ‘utterly inadequate’
Wealthy countries including EU committing $300bn a year for climate vulnerable countries but the outcome was condemned by aid agencies across the world
Explainer: 10 takeaways from Cop 29, a collective failure
Amid pressure from petrostates, Donald Trump’s looming US presidency, curtailed activism and continuing implementation difficulties, the progress was better than nothing - but way short of what is required
Tensions rise at Cop29 climate talks as risk of failure grows with each passing hour in Baku
Walkout by some developing countries confirms climate finance is the major blocker to progress
Cop29: UAE urges Saudi Arabia and others to honour fossil fuels pledge amid continuing impasse
Unprecedented public rebuke by Cop28 host comes as fuel producers try to derail transition promise made at last year’s talks
Cop29 stuck with big finance gap amid claims of backsliding on fossil fuels
‘Standing still is retreat and the world will rightly judge us very harshly if this is the outcome’ warns UK’s Ed Miliband
Climate talks enter final hours amid row over $1 trillion fund and China role
Vatican, Russia and Saudi Arabia voice concern over gender action plan aimed at supporting women affected by climate change
Gaza: US vetoes United Nations Security Council resolution for ‘unconditional’ ceasefire
Israeli strikes kill 15 in Palestinian enclave as hospital in north of region makes distress call
‘Real opportunity’ to end Israel-Hizbullah conflict, says US, as Argentina withdraws peacekeepers
Israel obstructing aid shipments desperately needed by Palestinian civilians in Gaza, says US senators
‘This keeps me awake at night’: How will Ireland’s climate worsen over the next 20 years?
The speed of decline in the ocean current system known as Amoc will determine whether Ireland can adapt or face catastrophic impacts
Cop29: Spectre of failure overhangs Baku as talks near collapse
Wealthy G20 countries meeting on other side of world must send signal, backed by finance, to tackle climate crisis or ‘face economic carnage’
Hizbullah’s head of communications killed in Israeli air strike on central Beirut
Some 100 Palestinians reportedly killed following three Israeli attacks on central and northern Gaza
Nine things we learned about state of the planet and turbulent climate geopolitics from first week of Cop29
A chasm remains between countries who believe carbon pollution is the source of our collective ills and those who believe oil and gas are to be used to drive their economies
Ireland lags other countries on reusing building materials, but how can we close the gap?
The State’s Environmental Protection Agency is hoping new measures will reduce wastage
Cop29 failure unacceptable, even if climate slips from political priorities, warns Eamon Ryan
UN chief welcomes ‘high ambition coalition’ including Ireland which is pushing for more ambitious outcome
Cop29 report indicates carbon emissions from fossil fuels set to reach record high in 2024
World likely to overshoot the critical 1.5-degree target in the Paris Agreement in less than 10 years, according to climate scientists
Israel mounts heavy strikes on Beirut suburbs as defence minister rules out ceasefire
Israeli attacks in Gaza kill 50 people, including a Hamas leader, as hospital director warns of ‘alarming’ malnutrition in Palestinian enclave
Cop29: UK attempts to become global leader on climate with new emissions target for 2035
Starmer commits to cutting emissions by 81% at climate summit overshadowed by Trump election win
Disasters being supercharged by man-made climate change with no country spared, UN chief tells Cop29
2024 was ‘masterclass in climate destruction’, António Guterres tells global leaders
Cop29′s chief negotiator hails early win on carbon trading as last part of Paris pact is ratified
Carbon credits predicted to enable big increase in climate spending but critics says backdoor deal was rushed and undermines UN climate process
Trump set to ‘dismantle fight against global warming’, US climate envoy warns at Cop29
UN talks open in Baku with stark warning no country is immune from climate disaster
Muslim-Arab summit demands Israel take steps to end Gaza and Lebanon conflicts
Saudi crown prince opens major Riyadh gathering by demanding Israel immediately cease ‘military aggression’ and blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza
Eamon Ryan: EU must ensure renewed backing for Paris pact as Cop29 faces into difficult negotiations
‘It will be hard to get agreement in a world that is so divided and under such stress, but that is what we have to do’
Explainer: Why Cop29 matters to you, Ireland and the world despite Trump ‘whiplash’
World’s performance on emissions and temperature summarised in three words: ‘over the limit’
Israeli strikes kill at least 36 in Gaza and Lebanon as Qatar suspends mediation efforts
Gulf country likely to return to talks if both sides show ‘serious political willingness’ to reach a deal on war in Palestinian enclave
Gaza: Nearly 70% of war dead are women and children, says UN rights office
Three Lebanese killed and six UN peacekeepers injured in Israeli drone strike amid ‘deliberate and direct destruction’ of Unifil property
Donald Trump’s return is a blow to global response to the climate crisis
The US president-elect showed himself in awe of the power of Hurricane Helene - but did not dare to consider why that September storm was so destructive
Palestinian ambassador to Ireland: ‘The Irish know exactly how the Palestinians feel about occupation’
Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid says if UN fails to suspend Israel over its cutting of ties with Unrwa, it will create ‘a vacuum in international law’
Ireland can play pivotal role in ensuring global food security while meeting challenge of an overheating planet
If Ireland delivers a credible food/health/climate strategy for the 2025 conferences it should open longer-term possibilities
Kyran Durnin case should be ‘watershed moment’ for child protection, urges special rapporteur
Irish State legally vulnerable because of ‘obvious gap’ between rights of children on paper and in practice
UN biodiversity summit comes to abrupt end as deal on global nature fund falls through
‘This is a delay we can’t afford as we see alarming evidence on a weekly basis the Earth is moving towards dangerous environmental tipping points’, said Grace Carr of Irish Wildlife Trust
Cop29: Can a bloated and cumbersome process undermined by self-interest deliver for our planet?
Baku conference offers opportunities to help avoid climate catastrophe, despite the obstacles
Ceasefire hopes fade as Israel continues to attack Gaza and Lebanon
Israeli military says it killed one of the last surviving high-ranking members of Hamas
Frustration at failure to deliver funding surfaces at UN biodiversity summit as talks go into final hours
Governments still need to protect an area of land equivalent to combined size of Brazil and Australia
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