Donald Trump has hit back after a judge temporarily blocked his travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to ignore calls to forgo the annual St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington DC following a weekend in which politicians around the globe denounced the actions of US president Donald Trump.

David Sweat, one of two New York state inmates who escaped from prison three weeks ago, was rushed to a local hospital yesterday after being shot by police near the Canadian border, two days after his accomplice was killed, according to media reports.

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Chilli reception awaits pickled immigrant caught red-handed

People-smugglers abandoned 84 migrants from Haiti on a deserted island off the west coast of Puerto Rico, the US said.

One of three college students arrested in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the US from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa.

A US Airways jet on a flight from Paris to North Carolina has been diverted over security fears after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device.

Insurgents killed two members of Nato’s mission to Afghanistan in the south of the country today, the multinational force said.

Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has welcomed new "pre-clearance" facilities for passengers travelling to the US from Dublin Airport.

THE Shannon Airport Authority (SAA) has failed to attract a scheduled service based on its €21 million US-Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the 12 months since the service was introduced.

A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, US officials said.

An alleged scheme to blow up transatlantic passenger jets in mid-air using liquid explosives was in the final stages of planning and bore some of the hallmarks of an al-Qaida plot, US officials said today.

Passengers arriving into the United States from the UK will undergo rigorous inspections after security was heightened in response to the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights.

A WATERFORD shipping agent accused of supplying boats to international drug dealers has pleaded with Spanish police to let him return to Ireland without seeking his arrest.

The daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has dropped her request for asylum in the US, a government official says.

Hundreds of US patrol agents are to be sent to the Arizona border with Mexico in a major crackdown against illegal immigrants, it has emerged.

A street gang leader who led the rebellion that forced Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to flee has been arrested in Miami, officials said today.

Tightening its defenses against terrorism, the US yesterday began fingerprinting and photographing visitors from some of America’s staunchest allies upon their arrival in this country.

The refusal to allow singer Yusuf Islam into the US on national security grounds was a “slap in the face of sanity”, a Muslim group said today.