Last week, the Irish Examiner published an opinion piece from the Russian ambassador marking the fifth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. Olena Shaloput of the Ukrainian Embassy responds

Latest: The Russian Embassy said in a statement: "The situation regarding the hospitalisation of Sergei Skripal and another person on March 4, as described by the British media, causes serious concern.

Reece Smyth, Chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Dublin, sees plenty of cause for optimism on the future of US-Irish relations

The trial of Dubliner Ibrahim Halawa has been adjourned until theAugust 1.

Update 7.30pm: Iran's foreign ministry announced it will limit issuing visas to American tourists in retaliation against the immigration crackdown.

In the UK - an Israeli embassy official has been secretly filmed saying he wants to "take down" a British Foreign Office minister.

From having a drink to kissing in public, a new app contains all sorts of advice on what to avoid in certain countries, writes Áilín Quinlan

Ambitions for Irish-Iranian agri-food trade growth have been boosted by a successful business networking event hosted by the Irish Exporters Association (IEA).

Latest: It is understood that the man who died today's accident in Spain is from the mid-Cork area.

The identities of those killed in Tuesday’s terror attack continue to emerge as police continue the hunt for the killers.

I was walking past the US Embassy and I began to wonder, what if the unimaginable happens? What if Donald Trump became president of the USA?

Bill Russell (Letters, November 25th) draws a moral equivalence between the Gaza war last Summer and the atrocity in Paris by Islamic State.

The Irish Aviation Authority is not withdrawing its direction to Irish airlines to avoid the Sinai Peninsula and Sharm el Sheikh Airport despite complaints by the Egyptian Ambassador.

Civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside the embassy where he has been living for over three years.

An Irish woman is among 28 holiday makers to have been murdered in a terrorist attack at a Tunisian resort today, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has confirmed.

GOAL has dispatched an emergency response team to Nepal to support relief efforts following the worst earthquake to hit the country in 80 years.

The highest-level US delegation to Cuba in decades has kicked off two days of negotiations after grand promises by President Barack Obama about change on the island and a sombre warning from Cuba to abandon hopes of reforming the communist government.

Same-sex marriage is banned in the Dominican Republic, but a man and his partner have exchanged vows in the first ceremony of its kind performed at the British embassy in the conservative Caribbean country.

Legislation aimed at protecting whistleblowers could prove to be a big challenge for employers, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Ted O’Keeffe (Letters, 3rd October) says that the war in Gaza, in July and August this year, was a bigger world problem than ISIS or ebola.

Police in Thailand are continuing to search for a backpacker linked to the brutal murders of a British man and a woman on one its idyllic islands, according to reports.

The US Embassy in Ghana has apologised after a staff member sent what is being described as “an errant tweet” criticising the president from the official Embassy Twitter account.

Dublin's Lord Mayor says that some residents living near Croke Park have contacted the US Embassy asking the US President Barack Obama to intervene in the Garth Brooks' debacle.

Ireland’s embassy in Washington has contacted a US senator to raise concerns over his call for over 1,100 at-risk jobs at a pharmaceutical giant in Waterford to be moved to New York.

Irish people are paying their respects to Mandela today as a number of Books of Condolence open across the country.

The UK government has issued an alert to airlines around the world, urging them not to allow former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden to board flights to the United Kingdom.

James McAvoy has dropped out of the Wikileaks movie.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expressed surprise today after the European Commission (EC) said a block on processing donations for his organisation by credit card companies was unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules.

Ireland’s ambassador to India is attempting to ease concerns in the country over the death of a woman who was refused an abortion as she miscarried.

Government spending on embassies and consulate offices fell by almost 3% last year, achieving savings of €1.6m for the exchequer.

Fears that the European Central Bank will fail to prescribe the medicine needed for the ailing eurozone triggered big losses on London's leading shares index today.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is little closer to discovering whether his request for political asylum in Ecuador will be accepted after he spent a third night at the country’s embassy in London.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest after breaching his bail conditions when he applied for political asylum at Ecuadorian Embassy last night.

Two close friends of the 21-year-old Irish soccer fan missing in Poland since last Sunday morning have made an emotional appeal for help in locating their friend.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Iran is destabilising the world and its aggression must be stopped.

Police in Thailand say a third Iranian suspect involved in a series of blasts in Bangkok has escaped into Malaysia.

Using economics to justify closing our embassy to the Holy See prompted one Dublin mother to say stop, writes Mary E Fitzgibbon

The US Embassy in Thailand has sent an “emergency message” to American citizens, warning of a possible terrorist attack in Bangkok.

Ireland’s diplomatic staff assisted almost 1,500 citizens during overseas emergencies this year.

Syrian troops battled army defectors today in clashes that left several military vehicles in flames.

SYRIA has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to take up arms against President Bashar Assad’s regime, the UN’s top human rights official has warned.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has today called for the immediate release of 14 Irish citizens who have been imprisoned in Israeli since Friday.

Crew members of the Irish vessel The MV Saoirse and the Canadian ship The Tahrir are being detained in an Israeli prison this evening, awaiting deportation back to Ireland.