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US president’s original war aims included Iran’s unconditional surrender, regime change, elimination of its nuclear potential and ‘obliterating’ Iran’s missiles

Such a move presents different challenges and dilemma from what the US did in the case of Venezuela

Pembro, made by pharma giant MSD, is hailed as a drug that saves and prolongs lives but it comes at an exorbitant cost

Move could cut global crude supply by 2 million barrels

Let’s start our journey into the mind of the Trump administration with a blue fish

US academic Cass Sunstein, who is visiting Dublin this month, reminds us that college campuses ‘need offensive speech’

The latest Nasa voyage shows the pitfalls of insider language afflict even the smartest people on the planet 

Gardai say man entered unauthorised area of Shannon Airport on Saturday

Fear of being drawn into prolonged negotiations with Iran is palpable

Easy Rider director was so taken with Taos that he became its most notorious resident during the 1970s and its most feted retiree in the last years of his life

Worldview: European elites are ill-prepared for this scale of change in their relations with the US

Laura Mabel Francatelli’s life jacket is the only one belonging to a Titanic survivor to be auctioned

Internationally known advisor sat on the board of the Breeders’ Cup horseraces in the US

Refusing the wheelchairs offered to them, the astronauts walked across the deck upon return

We can see that Nato is in disarray

There are some grounds for cautious optimism

Humour doesn’t change the fact of a situation, but it offers a momentary release. It can snap us out of how we’re feeling when the sadness in everyday life threatens to overwhelm

The most valuable disseminators of the US president’s message have turned on him

Gender-skewering comic ballet company comes to Ireland in April, as part of Dublin Dance Festival

Even before US and Iranian delegations departed for Pakistan, issue of Lebanon threatened to derail entire process

Traders shake off Iran worries for now

There was something more beautiful, more moving than any of the photographs shot from the window of the Orion spacecraft

The White House press secretary and JD Vance took questions on the Iran ceasefire while the US president remained elusive

Spotlight on the Artemis II mission reveals the complexity of deep space travel

Israel carries out ‘largest ‌strikes’ in Lebanon ⁠since war ‌began; oil prices plummet amid US-Iran ceasefire

Lebanese PM accuses Israel of killing unarmed civilians: at least 250 dead and 1,100 injured in day of strikes

There is an alarming sense that the leader of the world’s most powerful nation is psychologically untethered

Oil prices retreated, lifting airline stocks including Ryanair, EasyJet and Delta

British king travels to Washington at the end of this month on crucial state visit against backdrop of political tension

US, Iran agree to two-week ceasefire

US president signals 1am Irish time deadline for Tehran to comply with ultimatum

Prolonged war in Iran would likely result in decision pinch points for Coalition and possibility of tough budget talks

Convoys of vehicles cause hold-ups for multiple towns, cities and motorways

Destruction of radar systems has left Washington more vulnerable in the event of future conflicts

Nancy Guthrie, who police suspect was abducted from her home, has been missing for more than two months

The US president isn’t making this stuff up – it’s making him up

Hungary’s far-right prime minister faces his toughest challenge yet – and the Trump administration is going all in to save him

Nazi regime ‘abused’ rising star as a glittering, musical distraction from its mass-murder machine, suggests historian

Iranian intelligence chief killed in US-Israeli air strike

Annie Ramos’s plight contradicts Trump’s claims that his immigration crackdown would prioritise dangerous criminals