It must be halfway through Full Metal Jacket when Lt Lockhart, editor of the US military’s Stars and Stripes newspaper, briefs his men in the wake of the surprise attack by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong that would go down in history as the Tet Offensive.

Irish businesses have been urged to invest in the US market, with states in the American heartland seen as ripe for growth.

Results from nearly all polling stations show that TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the Ukrainian presidential run-off vote in a landslide.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney has called for an independent investigation into what he says seems to be a "disproportionate" use of force by the Israeli defence forces.

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

A security guard has been stabbed in Jerusalem as protests and demonstrations take place across the world following US president Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The defence minister of Israel is calling for a boycott of Arab businesses where residents carried out violent protests against the US president's recognition of Jerusalem as his country's capital.

A dream came true for Dustin the Turkey in Dublin last night.

US President Donald Trump has said he is delaying a new policy allowing trophies of African elephants shot for sport to be imported until he can review "all conservation facts".

Around 140 people have been arrested in Malawi after deadly mob attacks on people suspected of being "vampires".

The United States has delivered an ominous warning to its citizens to stay away from Cuba and ordered home more than half the US diplomatic staff.

Doctors treating jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has stopped using cancer-fighting drugs so as not to overwhelm his severely weakened liver, raising concerns that China's most prominent political prisoner is critically ill.

Police did not identify the explosive device but said they were treating the incident as an act of terrorism.

LATEST: Emerging reports suggest 18 people have been killed and 90 wounded in bombings at the funeral of a protester killed in Kabul.

A suicide attacker has targeted a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul with a truck bomb, killing 90 people and wounding up to 400.

US president Donald Trump has cast the elusive pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians as the "ultimate deal" as he continues his tour of the Middle East.

US president Donald Trump’s latest executive order, clamping down on the abuse of highly-skilled worker visas, could impact Irish graduates in the future.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House, the Trump administration is going back and forth over whether its vision for Middle East peace includes a Palestinian state.

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.

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

The US Embassy in Dublin announced that Taoiseach Enda Kenny will visit the White House on St Patrick’s Day, reports Irish Examiner political reporter, Joyce Fegan.

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The president of the Philippines has hit out at ally Barack Obama in his latest tirade against the US over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign.

The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the aid worker and gave her a choice.

An American surfer was in serious but stable condition after he was attacked by a large crocodile at a popular tourist beach in Costa Rica.

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?

An Islamic State militant suspected of planning a suicide attack against the US Consulate in Istanbul has been arrested in Turkey.

An American woman has been killed at a lion park in Johannesburg, according to reports in South Africa.

At least five drones flew over the Eiffel Tower, the US Embassy and other Paris landmarks overnight, authorities said.

The US State Department says that the US Embassy in Yemen has closed to the public over security concerns amid street violence and turmoil that is roiling the impoverished Arab country.

The United States and Cuba are trying to eliminate obstacles to normal ties as the highest-level US delegation to the communist island in three decades holds a second day of talks with Cuban officials.

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.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s National War Memorial then storming the Canadian parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country’s capital was shot dead yesterday, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said.

A three-day curfew is under way in Sierra Leone to help health workers find hidden cases of Ebola.

Lesotho’s military has seized and disarmed two police stations in the mountainous kingdom in an effort to secure the country, the defence force spokesman said.

The body of a 62-year-old American woman was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, and authorities arrested her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend in relation to the death, police said.

The body of a 62-year-old American woman has been found stuffed inside a suitcase on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

A retired Irish soldier has been asked to testify at the deportation hearing of a Lebanese man accused of executing two Irish peacekeepers more than three decades ago.

Travel plans for people needing a visa to go to the US have been thrown into disarray following a technical glitch affecting visa processing at American embassies worldwide.