United Nations (UN)

Six killed as Israel hits back at Lebanon after rocket attack

Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon are ‘safe’, Tánaiste Simon Harris says amid escalation in violence

Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2bn people, says UN

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis

Ireland could financially punish Israel without Occupied Territories Bill, says UN special rapporteur

Ireland is one of few European countries to take action against Israel but more is needed, Francesca Albanese says

Sobering consequences of rapidly declining birth rates

World sleepwalking towards social upheaval sparked by extended period of falling births, unless urgent action taken

Earth saw ‘spiralling weather and climate impacts’ in 2024, WMO report finds

Some consequences will be ‘irreversible over hundreds, if not thousands of years’, says UN agency

Nobody should be mocked or lampooned for decrying the consequences of the new arms race

The Irish approach to foreign policy should not be to exaggerate our purity or indulge dictators, but neither should we parrot criticisms of our neutrality from miliary aligned states

Almost 200 die in Syria as loyalists of deposed Assad regime clash with government forces

Violence deals blow to interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s rule of shattered country

UN releases emergency aid reserves after ‘brutal’ cuts from donors

UN-AID/USA-TRUMP (PIX):UN releases emergency aid reserves after 'brutal' cuts from donors

Arab League had no choice but to find alternative to Trump’s proposal to resettle 2.3m Gazans in Egypt and Jordan

Long criticised for disunity, the bloc now has a $53bn plan to rebuild Gaza Strip, boost its economy and replace Hamas

Law change allows for deployment of Irish special forces to Kyiv

Cabinet approves plans to amend legislation so only Government and Dáil approval is required to send more than 12 peacekeepers overseas

The Irish Times view on the end of the triple lock: reflecting a new reality

Ominous signs that the transatlantic security order is coming to an end, mean Ireland is faced with new questions

UN calls for stronger measures to combat intimidation of migrants by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland

Committee highlights particular concerns around segregation and access to adequate housing

How did the ‘triple lock’ on Irish troop deployments come into being - and why is it ending?

Government has argued the mechanism has hamstrung Irish military deployment overseas

How Donald Trump ripped up US climate action plans

At a Time of Climate Crisis: The US president has been making false and misleading claims on wind energy for nearly a decade

Neutrality fight beckons over proposal to modify ‘triple lock’ on overseas troop deployments

Tánaiste wants to scrap need for UN approval before Irish military can be sent abroad on peacekeeping missions

‘Zelenskiy had to stand up for himself, for Ukraine and the truth’: Ukrainians now look to Europe after White House chaos

Some Ukrainians say Zelenskiy should not have become frustrated in Oval Office, others think he was intentionally goaded

‘We’ve become used to being betrayed’: US aid cuts affect camps for people accused of Isis affiliation

Trump spending freeze threatens security arrangements and could make it harder to stop resurgence of Islamic State

Last-minute deal agreed at global biodiversity summit

Resumed UN Cop16 negotiations in Rome end with fragile accord but critics warn pact falls short on curbing nature loss

Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice by Steve Crawshaw - when impunity cannot be tolerated

Book review: Steve Crawshaw looks at the historical development of international justice and the various challenges and crises it has faced, and continues to face

‘Defending our bodies and land’: Why the fight to protect the environment is a matter of life and death in Honduras

Increasing violence and US aid freeze leaves indigenous communities in Honduras vulnerable

What does the US siding with Russia mean for Irish neutrality?

In the new world order, where the US sides with Russia, Ireland no longer has the luxury of teetering between political and military neutrality

Letters to the Editor, February 26th: Neutrality and a changing world; Shamrock diplomacy; Hassan Nasrallah and human rights

Instead of joining a future military alliance, there should be a referendum to enshrine neutrality into the Constitution

‘You are not alone’: Dozens of countries offer support to Ukraine

Message comes day after UN Security Council adopts neutral stance on conflict

Russia rejects Trump claim that it would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine

China and Russia back US resolution calling for end to war without assigning blame

Disabled people wanting to go into politics are hindered by cost, negative attitudes and even fear of violence

Political parties urged to consider greater diversity when proposing candidates for election and co-option

Europeans win in UN clash with US over rival Ukraine resolutions

UN General Assembly adopts two resolutions on war in Ukraine

Proposals to change triple lock potentially ‘very dangerous’ – Sinn Féin

Government insists plans will not infringe on Ireland’s military neutrality

First group of migrants deported from US arrive in Costa Rica

Group deported under new Trump crackdown on immigration after illegally crossing southern border

Failure to submit emission targets to UN indication climate is not priority for Government, says Green Party leader

Ireland will provide joint commitments with EU later this year, Department of Climate says

Chinese foreign minister to meet Martin and Harris tomorrow

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

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account

Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same

Ireland should reimagine its relationship with Africa

An increasing number of ‘middle powers’ are stepping up their engagement in Africa in an effort to bolster their global influence

A neuropsychologist’s view on Donald Trump: We’re seeing the impact of power on the human brain

US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

Record heat of last year unlikely to be a one-off, scientists warn

World may already be in period where Paris climate pact target of keeping temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees is breached sooner than anticipated

Nothing drives a truck through your prospects quite like the wrong man

Violence is a devastatingly routine part of life for a major segment of the population

‘Alarming rise’ in Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners

Public figures in the Russian Federation have called for inhumane treatment or execution of captured military

Congo’s army and Burundian allies slow Rwandan-backed M23 rebels from pushing south

Fighting around Mukwinja, a town of more than one million people, is slowing the rebel advance

It is an absurdity to think humanitarian aid into Gaza could be banned so soon into the ceasefire

The aid system cannot function without Unrwa in Gaza, which co-ordinates logistics, safety, fuel provision and movement

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels consolidate control over Goma as Kagame agrees need for Congo ceasefire

Rebels marched into city on Monday in worst escalation of conflict in more than a decade

Israel’s Unrwa ban will have an adverse effect on the humanitarian effort in Gaza

Law preventing UN agency from operating in Israel and Palestinian territories comes into force on Thursday

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