German chancellor Angela Merkel says she’s worried about the growing conflict between young campaigners for a cleaner planet and those who reject global warming.

UN secretary general António Guterres’s stark warning about climate change was ignored by the media in favour of the US president’s mocking of the Swedish activist. Our priorities are all wrong.

At last month’s Paris Peace Forum, eight norms were outlined to attempt to safeguard online activity against attacks by state and non-state actors, writes Joseph S Nye Jr

The eyes of future generations are on world leaders to take urgent action on climate change, teenage activist Greta Thunberg has told the UN.

What a difference one teenage girl and one year makes.

World leaders attending the G20 summit in Japan are clashing over the values that have served for decades as the foundation of their cooperation.

We need tangible results sooner than 2030 if we are to avert the worst effects of climate change, says Johan Rockström.

In the clamour of continual negative news surrounding Brexit, one could be forgiven for thinking that dilemmas around the backstop and border issues are the only game in town concerning Irish business.

US President Donald Trump has cancelled the June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, citing "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement.

North Korea's foreign minister has arrived in Sweden for talks with his Swedish counterpart.

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

Burma has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to "dehumanising apartheid", Amnesty International has said in a report.

There is no time to waste in tackling climate change but the world needs to be more ambitious in its targets, write Hilda Heine and Kevin Rudd.

The United Nations has appointed a Norwegian as an interim resident coordinator in Burma and resident representative for the UN development programme in the country.

The UN Security Council was called into emergency session today after North Korea conducted its longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile.

About 240,000 children have fled Burma's Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh over the last three weeks, according to a UN agency.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has said that ethnic cleansing is taking place in Burma against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

The news comes in response to an invitation from the Dominican Republic to explore the possibility of resuming talks on resolving the country's political upheaval.

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea.

A trawler carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Burma has capsized, drowning at least five people, as the UN said the crisis has pushed more than 125,000 refugees into Bangladesh.

The head of the UN has said he has confidence in the Irish general in charge of peacekeeping in Lebanon.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the United States may meet the Paris climate agreement's targets despite pulling out of the international deal.

The landmark first examination of a revised junior cycle English course was deemed appropriate by teachers after it was taken by most of this year’s 62,000 Junior Certificate students.

Donald Trump is expected to withdraw the US from a landmark global climate agreement, a White House official has said, although aides are looking for "caveats in the language" related to the exit and the decision is not yet final.

Analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month "bears the signature" of President Bashar Assad's government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault, France's foreign minister has said.

Charity founder Adi Roche has appealed to all children and families to remember, on this Wednesday, the Chernobyl disaster which occurred 31 years ago.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has been made a UN Messenger of Peace.