Although the extent of state control makes China well-placed to contain the coronavirus, it will not alter Xi Jinping’s global ambitions, writes Kevin Rudd
Mon, 10 Feb, 2020
We must change the way we use land and produce food if we are to save the planet, a UN climate report warns.
Thu, 08 Aug, 2019
Last Friday, the Ukrainian show jumping team contested a Tokyo 2020 qualifier in Budapest and amassed a total of 41 faults.
Tue, 02 Jul, 2019
Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalisation, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialisation, development, and trade, writes Harold James.
Wed, 03 Apr, 2019
A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year has sunk in the Tigris river near the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 45 people, an official said.
Thu, 21 Mar, 2019
Hunited for its meat on the steppes of Central Asia, the horse seems to have been domesticated by the Botai people of Kazakhstan five and a half millennia ago. The noble beast was revered even then; horse skulls were buried with their snouts facing the rising sun.
Mon, 12 Mar, 2018
Russia has forces in Syria to show the world that it is still an influence, but any losses can be attributed to ‘private operators’, says Nina L. Khrushcheva
Mon, 05 Mar, 2018
Ireland has been ranked as the 19th least corrupt country in the world in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).
Sat, 24 Feb, 2018
At least 52 people have died after a bus caught fire in Kazakhstan, emergency officials said.
Thu, 18 Jan, 2018
Tue, 14 Nov, 2017
Food, water, and energy depend on healthy, diverse ecosystems, but these are declining faster than at any previous time in human history, says Robert Watson
Mon, 13 Nov, 2017
A series of terror attacks have been foiled in Russia after members of an Islamic State sleeper cell were detained, according to intelligence officials in Moscow.
Mon, 02 Oct, 2017
More than 1,300 foreign women and children, the families of Islamic State fighters, are being held at a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials said.
Sun, 10 Sep, 2017
At this point they know each other like the back of each other’s backhands.
Sat, 02 Sep, 2017
Russia's intelligence agency said it has foiled a terror plot led by militants fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria.
Mon, 14 Aug, 2017
Sat, 22 Jul, 2017
As armed police take to the streets of London, Alex Morales and John Ainger ask if the city has become safer or more dangerous
Tue, 06 Jun, 2017
A suicide attacker has targeted a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul with a truck bomb, killing 90 people and wounding up to 400.
Wed, 31 May, 2017
Seven suspected Islamic State recruiters have been arrested by authorities investigating Monday's deadly explosion on the St Petersburg subway.
Wed, 05 Apr, 2017
Here are some of Darina Allen’s favourite ways to enjoy the under-appreciated vegetable, the carrot.
Sat, 01 Apr, 2017
More than 7,500 horses were slaughtered in Ireland last year and sold as meat to householders, mainly on continental Europe.
Tue, 28 Mar, 2017
So what to do with all those Christmas book vouchers?
Sat, 31 Dec, 2016
Donald Trump and Brexit shocked most of the world in 2016. But not readers of last year’s ‘Bloomberg Pessimist’s Guide’, which warned that the unthinkable could happen in both cases. Now the authors are turning their attention to 2017.
Mon, 26 Dec, 2016
Tue, 18 Oct, 2016
Mon, 03 Oct, 2016
Frank McGlynn’s insight into Genghis Khan tells of man driven by vision and circumstance to take over most of the known world with brilliant and brutal efficency by Neil Robinson.
Sat, 03 Sep, 2016
Huawei revealed its financial results for the first half of the year, and reported a significant increase in sales revenue and smartphone shipments.
Fri, 29 Jul, 2016
The Denis O’Brien-controlled Irish engineering company, Actavo — formerly Siteserv — recorded a 25% increase in pre-tax profit last year, helped by €99.5m in revenue from its Irish operations.
Kellie Harrington has vowed to strike gold next time out following her defeat to China’s Yang Wenlu is yesterday’s AIBA World Elite Championships 64kg final in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Sun, 29 May, 2016
Two people, including a man in his 70s, were arrested early yesterday after they were found do have breached security and entered the airfield at Shannon Airport.
Thu, 26 May, 2016
Katie Taylor has vowed to put everything on the line in Central Asia to edge a step closer to writing a chapter in the history of international women’s boxing that will probably never be surpassed.
Wed, 25 May, 2016
Offaly welterweight Gráinne Walsh moved to within one win of becoming the only Irish boxer besides Katie Taylor to medal at the World Women’s Elite Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan yesterday.
Mon, 23 May, 2016
Sat, 21 May, 2016
Mary Davis first burst into the public consciousness in 2003 as the Irish woman who spearheaded the Special Olympics moving out of the US for the first time.
Fri, 13 May, 2016
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Aoibhinn McGinnity feature in Trial of the Century, on TV3 at 9.15pm tonight.
Sat, 30 Apr, 2016
Three-time EU Elite champion David Oliver Joyce realised a lifetime ambition when qualifying for Rio 2016 on the final day of the European Olympic qualifiers in Samsun, Turkey yesterday.
Mon, 18 Apr, 2016
Chinese and Russian interests have long collided in the far east, writes Peter Marino
Sat, 16 Apr, 2016
Thu, 14 Apr, 2016
Sat, 09 Apr, 2016
The EU’s refugee deal with Turkey is already causing confusion and fear among asylum-seekers and authorities alike, write Tania Karas and Lauren Bohn from the Greek island of Lesbos
Thu, 07 Apr, 2016
Sat, 02 Apr, 2016
Greece is pressing ahead with plans to start deporting migrants and refugees back to Turkey next week, despite mounting concern from the UN and human rights organisations that Syrians could be denied proper protection.
Fri, 01 Apr, 2016
Some of the stranger stories from around the globe
Tue, 23 Feb, 2016
And it looked like he had the hump.
Thu, 11 Feb, 2016
There was someone a little out of the ordinary spotted wandering around a car park in Limerick this afternoon.
Mon, 08 Feb, 2016
Mon, 28 Dec, 2015
Tue, 27 Oct, 2015
IT is a reassuring victory for humanity and the power of redemption — one of the great and underestimated forces of conscience and decency — that Germany has assumed the role of Europe’s moral leader by spearheading the EU’s response to the refugee crisis.
Tue, 08 Sep, 2015
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