Cork city is preparing to welcome visitors from 90 countries and dignitaries from over 30 countries this weekend for the SeaFest festival and the Oceans Wealth Summit.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry will be a keynote speaker at a Cork conference on the so-called "blue economy" in June.

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has been announced as a keynote speaker at Ireland’s flagship blue economy conference Our Ocean Wealth at City Hall Cork in June.

Mr Trump thinks that ‘smoking’, as in the gun metaphor, is spelt ‘smocking’, making him this year’s leading contender for the Dan Quayle Potatoe prize, Best-in-Tweet class.

The Taoiseach has met Hillary Clinton in Dublin this evening.

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US secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said it is likely to take several years before the United States opens an embassy in Jerusalem.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cautioned countries in the Middle East against using Lebanon as "a venue for proxy conflicts".

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North Korea's deputy UN ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment".

The strained relationship between President Donald Trump and US secretary of state Rex Tillerson came under renewed focus on today.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has held a press conference at the White House to say that he has never considered stepping down from the job.

Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on RTÉ One's Late Late Show tonight to promote her new book 'What Happened' and discuss her links with Ireland.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met the king of Saudi Arabia and officials from other countries lined up against Qatar as he works to end a rift that has left the tiny, energy-rich state isolated from its neighbours.

An open-ended ceasefire in southern Syria brokered by the United States and Russia has come into effect.

US president Donald Trump has described his lengthy head-to-head encounter with Russian president Vladimir Putin as a "tremendous meeting".

"But now is not the time to do anything to subtract from the fundamental responsibility of those individuals, that individual in particular, who committed this atrocity."

Donald Trump will meet Vladimir Putin's senior diplomat at the White House on Wednesday in a signal that US relations with Russia have improved.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that China has threatened to impose sanctions on North Korea if it conducts further nuclear tests.

Donald Trump is looking forward to his first meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said.

North Korea has tested a new type of high-thrust engine to propel its rockets.

China has strongly criticised what it called America's "terrible human rights problems" in its annual report on rights abuses in the United States, citing police brutality, high levels of incarceration, racial prejudice and money politics.

The administration issued a list of 74 questions for the Energy Department, asking officials to identify which employees had worked on efforts to tackle climate change, says Victoria White.

THOUGH it has never held a less-than-prominent place in modern western thinking, the turbulent political and social events of the past few years, perhaps exemplified most clearly of all by the tragic and horrific attack on the Charlie Hebdo office, have moved the issue of Free Speech — and by extension, freedom of expression — to the very forefront of our consciousness.

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The 2016 American election has at times been "downright embarrassing", US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.

Here are key moments from the live televised debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is threatening to cut off all contact with Moscow over Syria, unless Russian and Syrian government attacks on Aleppo end.

Colombia's government and rebel leaders have signed a historic peace agreement to end 50 years of war that has killed more than 220,000 people.

After a week of horrific deaths in Syria, greater US military action may look like an obvious solution but it could only make matters worse, says Peter Apps.

Update - 7.45pm: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the United States to extradite a Muslim cleric he accuses of being behind Turkey's failed coup attempt.

HILARY CLINTON, the putative Democratic candidate in November’s ’s White House race will be relieved that the FBI has recommended that no criminal charges be brought against her over her use of a private email server while she served as US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

The US and other world powers have said they are ready to supply Libya’s internationally recognised government with weapons to counter Islamic State and other terrorists.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called his visit to a memorial to victims of the 1945 US nuclear attack on Hiroshima “gut-wrenching” and said it was a reminder of the need to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons.

Under the pressure of the migrant crisis countries across Europe have closed their borders, while xenophobic parties thrive. TP O’Mahony reflects on a new book which captures the unravelling of the EU’s liberal dream. 

Europe’s fear of IS and the US’s election uncertainty have diverted attention from Vladimir Putin’s ambitions, writes Agnia Grigas

Donor nations have pledged to give billions of dollars in aid to Syrians as world leaders gathered for a conference to tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with Turkey reporting a new exodus of tens of thousands fleeing air strikes.

It was not quite an endorsement, but Russian president Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump’s talents and lauded his calls for better ties with Russia.