Helen McEntee says we need to protect our own interests.

Flux is the permanent state of human affairs: Empires rise and fall, despots come and go, alliances are built only to fall apart, social norms once thought inviolable are thrown aside.

Alienating traditional US partners while wooing Putin and the Saudis, Donald Trump is facing another difficult G20 summit this weekend, writes David A Andelman

Donald Trump has a slightly odd way of going about world peace... He’s just spent the weekend turning all of America’s friends into enemies, writes Fergus Finlay

It’s response to Turkey’s jailing of a German human rights activist was to discourage tourists from going there and firms from investing there, says Mark Leonard

She described the summit as a wake-up call, adding: "The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days."

LATEST: British environmentalists accused Donald Trump of treating the international community with "utter contempt" after he refused to sign up to global action on climate change at an international summit.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers commissioned by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) has detected geographic patterns associated with mass graves that will help find hidden graves in the future.

WHAT was the secret of Ronald Reagan’s success? Was it his timing and theatricality? His charisma? His optimism? His circle of advisers? Or was it that, time after time, people underestimated him?

IT was like a scene from a James Bond movie at times with protesters scaling cliff sides, racing motorboats across the choppy waters of Lake Garda and firing ear piercing flares into the blue sky.

US POLICE arrested some 300 anti-globalisation protesters yesterday, thwarting their attempts to block city traffic during a G7 summit in Washington.