The mother of a man who drowned alongside his young daughter while trying to reach the US has said she is comforted by how they clung to each other in their final moments.

Apple shares, which have fallen about 7% since the US made moves to curb Huawei Technologies earlier this month, have a near-term floor at $160, about 10% below price they were trading yesterday, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley.

Globalisation and other factors have given US corporations market dominance. This must be challenged, writes Raghuram Rajan.

The ultimate owner of Aughinish Alumina in Limerick has said significant investment is planned for the facility, just months after US Government sanctions threatened the future of its 450-plus jobs.

These are good days for Ireland’s manufacturers as a resurgent economy driven by home-grown and foreign investment provide the biggest turnaround since the financial collapse 10 years ago, writes John Whelan 

The Government cannot become complacent about the risk to more than 650 jobs at Aughinish Alumina in Limerick even though fears are easing about the Trump Administration’s targeting of its Russian owner Rusal.

Donald Trump has put women’s lives at risk around the world by defunding maternal healthcare schemes, say Anne-Marie Slaughter and Elizabeth Radin.

The Trump administration has proposed spending $18bn over 10 years to significantly extend the border wall with Mexico, providing one of its most detailed blueprints of how the president hopes to carry out a signature campaign pledge.

The strength of protests shaking Iran was unclear on Thursday after a week of unrest that killed at least 21 people.

The euro has been on a steady upward path against the dollar for much of this year as it climbed from $1.04 in early January to around the $1.20 level by August, writes Oliver Mangan.

Shares of South Korean appliance makers Samsung and LG have risen as investors shrugged off a recommendation by US trade officials that US president Donald Trump impose tariffs on foreign-made washing machines they say are undercutting domestic manufacturers.

US President Donald Trump has picked a former top pharmaceutical and government executive to be his health and human services (HHS) secretary.

The dollar has had a difficult time for most of 2017, losing over 11% of its value on a trade-weighted basis between January and the end of August, as the positive market reaction to Donald Trump’s unexpected win in last November’s US Presidential election dissipated, writes Oliver Mangan. 

US secretary of state Rex Tillerson has made a secret trip to Afghanistan to outline the Trump administration's new south Asia policy.

US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said the stock market will probably see its gains wiped out if politicians fail to deliver planned tax cuts that will benefit corporate America.

A judge in Hawaii has blocked the latest version of the Trump administration travel ban just hours before it was set to take effect.

Pope Francis has launched a two-year activism and awareness-raising campaign about the plight of migrants to counteract mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in the US, Europe and beyond.

The US has seen no need to shoot down North Korean missiles test-fired in Japan's direction, but a future missile launch that threatens American or Japanese territory will "elicit a different response from us", defence secretary Jim Mattis has said.

The Trump administration has announced that it will wind down a programme protecting young immigrants from deportation.

The Trump administration has taken another step toward building a wall on the US border with Mexico, even as funding for the project remains in question.

The United States will respond by September 1 to Russia's attempt to force a major reduction in American diplomatic staff, Rex Tillerson has said.

Failure to repeal Obamacare has exposed the fault lines in the US party, write Stephen Peoples and Thomas Beaumont

While US action is needed over the death of Otto Warmbier in North Korea, the goal must be to ensure no other student meets his fate, writes Dan DePetris.

Donald Trump has said he would like to see a diplomatic resolution to escalating tensions with North Korea, but fears "we could end up having a major, major conflict".

Investors have had a strong start to 2017 as global markets moved higher during the first quarter, buoyed by expectations of global reflation and fiscal stimulus that has propelled equity markets higher since the US election last November.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has used a visit to a Second World War memorial in Italy to declare that the United States will stand up to aggressors who harm civilians.

Twitter has defied a US government request for records that could identify users behind an account opposed to President Donald Trump, and is challenging that order in court.

The Trump administration will impose sanctions on Venezuela's new vice president, Tareck El Aissami, and accuse him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking.

Fears that pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly’s decision to postpone a €200m investment in Kinsale, Co Cork are a reaction to US President Donald Trump’s protectionism are overstated, according to a leading economist.

Wall Street capped a week of milestones today with a rally that pushed the major stock indexes to all-time highs for the second day in a row.

THE head of the European Central Bank (ECB) has expressed concern about the Trump administration’s moves to relax financial oversight, saying such deregulation helped pave the way for the global financial crisis.

The first official press briefing by Donald Trump’s administration will be held later amid a series of attacks on the media by senior White House figures.

It was Irish style parish-pump politics that brought Donald Trump to Presidential office but Irish writer Paddy Duffy reflects on whether, unlike the Healy Rae's, The Donald's rhetoric on the campaign trail was based on a real sense of civic duty to the people who voted for him. 

Some predicted a win for Trump would spook the markets but Tom Metcalf and Jack Witzig found the prospect of a businessman in the White House just helped the rich grow richer.