The drive to find a vaccine to combat the coronavirus is well underway. Several large pharmaceutical and smaller biotech companies are working on making new antibodies, drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus disease but lack of funds may yet get in the way, writes John Whelan.

US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency over Covid-19.

Last Thursday, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was unflinching on Facebook. She described Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth as “accomplices for misleading the American people with money from God knows where”.

Europe is arming itself for a more lawless world of trade and the bloc’s sights are on the US.

Roger Stone, a long-time friend and ally of US President Donald Trump, has been found guilty of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.

The Turkish lira fell back in the face of US and European threats of sanctions and embargoes, though sceptical traders said it would weaken much further if Western allies turn words into action over Turkey’s incursion in Syria.

It’s too early to bid farewell to the decade-long equity bull market as stocks are still providing healthy returns for investors, according to Goldman Sachs.

If the US president is impeached, as seems likely, his name will be blackened in history, and the scandal may be as big as Watergate, in 1974, says Elizabeth Drew.

Are US President Donald Trump and British prime minister Boris Johnson just not coping with mental health challenges? Or is it really the case that they are Manchurian Candidates, asks Fergus FInlay

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the House is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

One flight was forced to divert to Cork Airport while others were placed in holding patterns because of restrictions associated with the departure of the jet carrying the US Vice President this morning.

After years of rising tensions between Turkey and the US over the situation in northern Syria, an unexpected rapprochement has pulled the two countries back from possible conflict.

Iran’s supreme leader will not meet US President Donald Trump unless Washington halts its “economic terrorism” targeting the country, its foreign minister has said.

It's a crazy world. On Sunday, I followed the reports of the G7 Summit. All these leaders of the Western world were avoiding saying anything that would annoy US President Donald Trump, while struggling with the notion that this is a man who, for any reason at all, could shatter years, even decades, of carefully constructed agreements and institutions.

Hell-bent on breaking out of the EU orbit at any price, the Boris Johnson government may find its yellow hammer swallowed in the maw of the next global financial crisis, suggests Eddie Hobbs.

A senior US politician has warned that lawmakers could block a future US-UK trade deal if the Good Friday Agreement is undermined.

The chief economist for the largest business lobby group in the country, IBEC, has warned that the Government should be planning for a no-deal Brexit by putting legislation and funding in place “no matter what the outcome.”

Global markets appear to have called time on the dangerous game of hardball US president Donald Trump is playing with China, as a plunge in shares, government bond yields, and the price of oil signalled his trade wars could lead to world recession.

US Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Ireland next month on behalf of President Donald Trump, the White House has confirmed.

Boris Johnson could strike a chord with key sections of the electorate in the short-term before major damage is done. They will live to regret it, writes Andrew Hammond

Oil prices rebounded slightly from big falls in recent sessions, but Brent crude remained near seven-month lows around $60 a barrel due to escalating trade tensions between China and the US.

After US President Donald Trump walked away from the Iranian nuclear deal, which closed the door on diplomacy, his administration’s pretext of freeing Iranians from authoritarianism is similar in tone to previous US war propaganda in this region.

Irish manufacturing output contracted for the second month in a row and the pace of decline quickened, according to the latest survey of the health of Irish factories.

The Government has joined the growing backlash against US president Donald Trump’s racist attack on four Congresswomen.

The smart phones are described as 'mobile data stations', and provide gardaí on the roadside immediate and secure access to the same information as they would have in a garda station.

A sculpture of US First Lady Melania Trump has been unveiled just outside her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia and has been gaining traction online for the uniqueness.

An Italian airline has apologised for a video that featured an actor in blackface portraying former US President Barack Obama.

The Chinese telecoms giant battling claims it poses a security risk has said it has not been contacted by the Irish agency conducting a security review of proposed 5G systems.

The withdrawal of American troops late last year was premature, with fighting intensifying in Idlib province, say Charles A Kupchan and Sinan Ülgen

Opec agreed to extend oil supply cuts until March 2020, three sources said, as the group’s members overcame their differences in order to prop up the price of crude amid a weakening global economy and soaring US production.

The rollout of 5G services across Europe is being slowed by US sanctions against Huawei and as European governments review the impact of using Chinese equipment, the head of Swedish telecoms group Tele2 said.

Weak German economic data and a profit warning from Daimler impacted European stock markets as investors reined in any bets on a fourth week of gains before G20 meetings that may see more trade talks between the US and Chinese presidents.

Medha Singh and Susan Mathew European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi’s dovish remarks — signalling that the ECB will ease policy again if inflation fails to accelerate — sent European stocks to six-week highs while news that the US and China would resume trade talks at the G20 summit also boosted sentiment.

So that’s nearly Thursday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

US president Donald Trump finished his sojourn to Ireland with a round of golf and met a group of local schoolchildren — on the 9th green.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar didn’t appear to be completely happy during his joint press conference at Shannon Airport with US President Donald Trump.

The men and women of An Garda Síochána are tasked with managing the behind-the-scenes mammoth security operation surrounding President Trump’s visit.

Wheeler women from Ennistymon, Co Clare have been protesting visiting US Presidents here for nearly forty years.