UK voters’ decision to leave the EU may have been motivated by domestic issues such as immigration, but the costs of departure are being felt first in foreign policy, writes Mark Malloch-Brown.

Ireland looks set to join 20 other nations in what UK prime minister Theresa May has described as the “largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history”.

European Council president Donald Tusk has said 14 member nations have expelled Russian diplomatic staff over the poisoning of an ex-spy in the UK.

Investigators are removing the bench where poisoned former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found.

Russia has accused Britain of deliberate concealing evidence in the escalating war of words over the Salisbury nerve agent attack.

The Russian ambassador to Ireland described the expulsion by Britain of 23 diplomats as a “hostile action” and said it would “not go unanswered”.

Latest: The Russian Embassy said in a statement: "The situation regarding the hospitalisation of Sergei Skripal and another person on March 4, as described by the British media, causes serious concern.

Boris Johnson sowed confusion over England's World Cup involvement - before his team rejected suggestions that Gareth Southgate's squad could be pulled from the competition.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has vowed that Britain will respond "robustly" if evidence of state responsibility emerges after a Russian double agent was left fighting for his life following suspected exposure to an unknown substance.

Tom Hughes’s character uses his allure to wring secrets from women in a major new Cold War thriller, says Susan Griffin

Indiscriminate rocket fire has hit a market, schools, homes and shops in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said.

Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine who was released from jail last month after her arch-foe Viktor Yanukovych fled from power, has confirmed she will again run for president in an election on May 25.

Katie Taylor recorded her third straight victory over Ukrainian Yulia Tsiplakova at Bórd Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin last night.

FOUR people were ordered to remain in jail yesterday pending an investigation into a nightclub fire that killed at least 112 people in Russia’s worst blaze in decades, investigators said.

Four people were held in jail tonight pending an investigation into a nightclub fire that killed at least 112 people in Russia’s worst blaze in decades, investigators said.

AN INDEPENDENT exit poll indicated Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s party was leading in yesterday’s parliamentary elections by a slim margin — ahead of the bloc led by Yulia Tymoshenko.

Ukrainians began voting today in an early parliamentary election meant to bring an end to a months-long political stand off between the nation’s two feuding leaders.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians flooded Kiev’s main square today to mark the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution with rock music, vodka toasts and fiery speeches.

A British heavy metal singer married the daughter of Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko today.

Belarusians overwhelmingly approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission announced today, allowing the authoritarian leader of the former Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.