Nina L Khrushcheva says the Russian president has an unlikely bedfellow in Donald Trump, whose bullying style from the stump is similar to his own

If, as is suggested, €10,000 is being paid per refugee to get to Europe, a boat overloaded with 600 people, could provide criminal gangs with €6,000,000.

Had the Ottoman empire survived World War I and come to dominate western powers we would be living in a very different, far less tolerant world, suggests Andrew Melsom.

We have managed to overlook this huge centenary of Irish sacrifice on the world stage, writes Victoria White

Centuries of rule by outsiders have left a disconnect between citizens and the state — and in the struggle between modernism and myth, the latter triumphed, writes Adam LeBor

The Water Diviner. Australia, 1919. Still struggling to come to terms with the death of his three sons at Gallipoli, Connor (Russell Crowe) is devastated when his wife commits suicide.

Jo Kerrigan’s recent article on War Horse prompted me to go and see the play. The plot concerns a foal named Joey and Albert, the youth who owns and loves him.

WE have been here before.

A EUROPE badly shaken by a faltering economy and rising populism is set to commemorate the centenary of the First Word War, the conflict still known as the “Great War” that scarred the continent and shaped the 20th century.

Thousands of Christians have gathered near Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was killed and buried.

THE stout woman behind the ticket booth at Istanbul’s sprawling Otagor bus station looks quizzical, “Thessaloniki?”.

Greece has always looked at its classical age as a usable past but there is no solace in the classics to inspire the country out of its financial and economic woes. What Greece needs is a cultural revolution, writes Fouad Ajami

The Balfour Declaration: The origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict

KOSOVO’S unilateral secession from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the World Court said yesterday, in a decision with implications for separatist movements everywhere.

IN his letter (April 12), Mark Cronin reasserts the British view that the Turks bear responsibility for being invaded at Gallipoli because “the pro-German faction within the Turkish government was the controlling party in the lead-up to the war”.

David Cesarani

The US and European Union have warned Turkey, a Nato member and close ally, to prevent its military from defying civilian leaders in a conflict between the Islamic-rooted government and the secular establishment.

Sarajevo. What does the name conjure up in your mind? Aerial bombardments in the 1990s are one possibility; the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, triggering the First World War, is another.

HOW did Mark Papazian go from being a quiet boy, growing up in 1950s Ireland, to a would-be serial killer on the verge of causing mayhem in London?

For Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians, Slobodan Milosevic came to personify the brutality and destruction that befell them in the 1990’s, during his campaign to rid the province of separatists.

Director Guy Ritchie is undeterred by the poor response to his latest movie, he's already planning his next film project - an ancient historical comedy.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Greece’s muslim minority today in a rare visit that underscored the efforts by both nations to end decades of confrontation and tensions.

Iraq has re-entered the world oil market with its first shipment of crude since the war, but sabotage and looting along its largest pipeline delayed the flow of freshly pumped oil – the key to the reconstruction of an economy devastated by sanctions and war.

I DO not know what Mr Teegan’s career path is, but he has missed his vocation as a teller of fairy tales (Irish Examiner letters, May 15).

IN the coming weeks this column will feature "Good Buy" holidays for 2003, dealing with the traditionally popular sun holiday destinations, both far afield and closer to home.

Pope John Paul II added seven people to the ranks of those on the road to possible sainthood today, beatifying victims of Nazi and Ottoman rule and five founders or members of religious orders.