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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UN General Assembly adopts two resolutions on war in Ukraine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pulling out of Paris Agreement was predictable theatre, but resulting temperature and emission rises will push Earth to dangerous tipping points

At least 13 peacekeepers killed as three-year insurgency by rebel group M23 intensifies

Israeli prime minister says ceasefire cannot go into effect on Sunday without list of hostage names

Contentious proposed law would ban trade with Israeli firms operating in occupied Palestinian territory

Expansion to continue at slower pace than before the Covid pandemic

UN official calls on new president to appoint a prime minister, after two years of caretaker cabinet

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

Year-on-year rise in executions ‘deeply disturbing’, says UN human rights commissioner Volker Türk

Supercomputer helps deliver more accurate indication of what the future holds for Ireland’s climate with new indications on regional impacts

Jumaa al-Batran is one of six Palestinians who have died of exposure and cold in recent days

New report catalogues besieging and targeting of hospitals with explosives and killing of medical staff

UN hears Israel has the ability to strike any target in the Middle East, including Iran

Dick Spring warned dual role would clash with public’s understanding of presidency as ‘total’ role

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