US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over Covid-19.

We must all do our part to ensure our children inherit a sustainable enviornment, writes Belgium based European Environmental Bureau executive, Khaled Diab

The Irish economy will undergo a major shock in coming weeks as the consequences on Covid-19 unfold.

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

Kyran Fitzgerald analyses the latest economic signals which point towards continuing good times the US-Irish trade.

It's Stokes' fifth club in two years.

Earlier this week President Vladimir Putin announced plans to amend Russia's constitution so he will, when he is obliged to stand down as president in 2024, retain power. Moscow's parliament was informed though not consulted on measures that mean Putin's two decades of autocracy will not end when he resigns.

Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down “unintentionally” by Iran on Wednesday shortly aftertake-off.

It’s not quite a century, just 96 years, since Seán O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock was introduced at the Abbey.

There are three Dubs at a table talking about the greatest sporting moment of the last decade.

There is nothing even remotely unconstitutional about the house’s decision to impeach Donald Trump, writes Noah Feldman.

With the rise of China and and an introspective US, the continent faces an uncertain future and a vassal status writes Slawomir Sierakowski.

Stormont, despite positive post-election noises, remains mothballed. Tribalism is re-energised.

That the Madrid climate talks ended with an inconclusive agreement and a decision to ask countries to be more ambitious in cutting greenhouse gas emissions to realise the 2015 Paris accord shows we have, to use David Axelrod’s all-too-apt phrase, passed the swimsuit stage of international negotiations on climate change.

It may seem churlish to begin consideration of the spectacular Tory election victory in Washington but it seems unavoidable.

Non-federal US actors — from state governments to private businesses — have laid a strong foundation for effective climate action, says Jules Kortenhorst and Andrew Steer

It may be just a little too facetious to suggest that life is a series of comparisons but, on the cusp of the year’s great festival of consumerism, that argument is easier to make than is healthy.

It was obvious in Wexford last week, when Fine Gael displayed Clinton-grade hubris.

Europe has dithered for decades over whether or not to unify its armies, says Andreas Kluth

China has accused America of “double standards” after US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said the Hong Kong government bears the prime responsibility for restoring calm to the former British colony.

Over the weekend Sinn Féin held its annual conference in Derry.

Life is all about change — at least that’s the standard counsel, increasingly received as the years roll by.

Even Brexiteers are beginning to realise that the Kafkaesque nightmare is a UK problem, not a European one. The EU’s patience will run out eventually, writes Lionel Laurent.

What Turkey is doing in Syria has serious implications for the rest of the world. International laws are being violated, civilians are being displaced, local demography is being changed and lives are being risked.

While most non-proliferation and test-ban treaties remain, the 1987 intermediate range pact has collapsed and the 2015 Iran deal is on the brink, says Bennett Ramberg