WE are the problem, says Victoria White. Politicians have not reduced greenhouse gas emissions because the electorate is complacent.

Plans for a development of more than 30 new homes in the southside suburbs of Cork have been lodged.

On the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Louise Sarsfield Collins argues that accidental nuclear detonation is a much more pressing issue than nuclear war.

In a stunning rebuke of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to expand his powers, Turkish voters have stripped his party of its simple majority in parliament, preliminary election results show.

British fighter planes and a warship were scrambled yesterday as Russian bombers and vessels passed close to the UK. 

Islamic militants who prompted global outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls have opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds in a new spasm of violence in Nigeria’s north-east.

Because Ukraine doesn’t have full member status in Nato, the US and Europe are not obliged to help, says Julie Pace

Shock new Swiss laws that target immigration are a cause for concern, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Islamist guerrillas are turning the vast Sahara into a new theatre of war against the West, writes Alex Diaz

After two decades as a diplomatic troubleshooter in hotspots from Afghanistan to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi firmly believes that every conflict can be solved.

Nations must help Somalia’s fragile leadership tackle terrorism, piracy and hunger or be prepared to pay the price, British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned at an international conference on the troubled east African nation’s future.

BRITAIN will expel all remaining Libyan diplomats, treat the rebel opposition as the legitimate government and unfreeze some Libyan assets, Foreign Secretary William Hague said, in the latest diplomatic push to break Muammar Gaddafi’s grip on power.

A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain to prop up the monarchy in the tiny island nation against widening demonstrations, launching the first cross-border military operation to quell unrest since the Arab world’s rebellions began in December.

CALL it panda politics.

Somali pirates who are demanding US$7m (€4.7m) in ransom for a British sailing couple said today that boats from other countries are plundering Somalia's fish-rich waters.

RELATIVES of a British couple feared snatched by pirates off the east African coast met the Somali Prime Minister yesterday as family members pleaded for an end to their “bad dream”.

BORD BIA outlined commendably ambitious targets last week for our agri-food industry to contribute to economic renewal.

A SHADOWY right-wing group goes on trial in Turkey on Monday on charges of trying to topple Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

An oil supply “crunch” could hit the world in five years time and drive up oil prices to more than US$200 a barrel, a think tank warned today.

THE EU may be forced by food scarcity into accepting supply-boosting GM commodities, according to a world-leading institute for the debate and analysis of international issues.

The Nato-led coalition in Afghanistan lacks both the troops and the strategy needed to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida, a leading foreign affairs think tank warned today.

Senior Russian defense ministry official Vladimir Shamanov said today that more US troops in Iraq “won’t be able to radically change the situation with ensuring peace and security".

Other Russian exiles in London may be feeling nervous after the apparent poisoning of former security agent Alexander Litvinenko, an expert on Russian affairs said.

Nato generals today struggled to persuade allies to provide an extra 2,000 troops urgently sought by commanders caught unawares by the ferocity of Taliban resistance to the alliance push into southern Afghanistan.

Iran’s influence in the Middle East has been bolstered by America’s so-called war on terror, according to a new report.

Investigators will be subjecting a message recorded by London bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan to detailed forensic analysis, a security expert said today.

THE British government yesterday flatly rejected an influential think-tank report which said Britain’s role in the war on Iraq left it more vulnerable to terror attacks such as the July 7 bombings.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today rejected suggestions that nations which backed the US in Iraq were more vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

Anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof today hailed the G8’s decision to write off $55bn in developing world debt as a “victory for millions of campaigners across the world”.

David Kelly was “taken aback” by the way BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan grilled him for information, the Hutton Inquiry was told today.