One in three women around the world have experienced either sexual or physical violence, an international conference on gender-based violence in Trinity College has heard today.

What a relief climate change has been reconfigured as extreme weather by the Trump administration, writes Suzanne Harrington

In a west African country where militant and terrorist attacks are “entirely unpredictable”, Irish soldiers are helping to train the Malian army to enforce the rule of law.

The Imam of a Limerick mosque has said he would, as a last resort, be prepared to physically tackle any terrorist using his religion to murder innocent people, if an attack were imminent.

The AP’s documenting of the mass graves in Iraq and Syria has led to barely an eyebrow being raised in the West, writes Andrew Nagorski.

The Islamic State (IS) militant group has committed genocide against minority Christians and Yazidis as well as Shi’ite Muslims, US secretary of state John Kerry said, a finding that is unlikely to greatly change US policy toward the group.

African leaders have appointed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the new chairman of the 54-nation African Union.

The Irish Defence Forces have 442 soldiers serving overseas in 14 missions with the UN, EU, OSCE and Nato. 

They were created by imperial powers, but war and terrorism is posing risks to the shape and future of many nations, writes Shlomo Avineri

The aid agency GOAL added two of its Sudanese aid workers are "unaccounted for" after an incident in the Darfur region of Sudan.

George Clooney wants to launch a career in politics after marrying Amal Alamuddin.

IT was an open secret that one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst tormentors, Bosco Ntaganda, lived on Avenue des Tulipés until 2012, crossing into Rwanda now and then despite a travel ban.

“IT’S nothing short of miraculous,” Don Franco Ottonelli says as he admires his brainchild, a modern, new apartment complex for immigrants and the homeless near the centre of Acqui Terme, a town in north-west Italy.

The UN reports that 190 people have died this month in fighting between rival Arab groups in Sudan.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria after human rights lawyers and civil rights activists demanded his arrest, a Sudanese diplomat has said.

Gunmen have ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping team in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing seven and wounding another 17 in the deadliest ever single attack on the international force in the country.

The Irish Government has pledged €2mo in funding to provide life-saving food, shelter, basic health care and water to some of the most vulnerable communities in Africa.

The Government has pledged €2m in funding to provide life-saving food, shelter, basic health care and water to some of the most vulnerable communities in Africa.

Dan Buckley traces the career thus far of Dublin-born Samantha Power who has just been appointed US ambassador to the UN by President Obama

The proposed global arms treaty that is being debated in the UN must put the world’s most vulnerable ahead of political or business interests, writes Colm O’Gorman

South Sudan and Sudan have failed to reach an agreement on security arrangements and oil exports after several days of talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, officials said today.

A military transport aircraft has crashed near the Sudanese capital Khartoum after a mechanical failure, killing 13 people on board.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was today found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity by supporting brutal Sierra Leone rebels in return for blood diamonds.

Judges at an international war crimes tribunal have begun delivering landmark judgments in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

Dear Big Phil, I write this letter to you in the faint hope that you would give me a straight answer without any spin or, shall we say, “uisce faoi thalamh”.

Arab leaders will offer plans this week to break the political “stalemate” that has engulfed Syria but they will not demand the resignation of President Bashar Assad, Iraq’s top diplomat said today.

Who does one call when fighting the injustices of Sudan where there are allegations of genocide, a president indicted by the international criminal court and a mistreated south seceding from the north of the country?

The aid worker who was freed after being held by Sudanese rebels for more than three months said she does not regret her criticism of the charity she was working for at the time.

The head of the Arab League warned today that Syria may be sliding toward civil war, as security forces fired on thousands of people who poured into the streets in support of army defectors.

Arab League observers in Syria have come under fresh scrutiny after a former monitor called their mission a "farce."

The Arab League has demanded that the Syrian government immediately stop all violence and allow more monitors in, as activists reported at least 10 more civilians, including two teenagers, were killed by regime forces.

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is in Tripoli on his first visit since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, in a bid to restore relations which soured in the last years of the Libyan dictator.

SYRIAN security forces opened fire on protesters outside a mosque in a Damascus suburb, close to a building that members of the Arab League monitoring mission were visiting, activists say.

Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters outside a mosque in a Damascus suburb, close to a building that members of the Arab League monitoring mission were visiting, activists say.

A conflict she didn’t fully understand has inspired Angelina Jolie to get behind the camera for a love story set in Bosnia.Janine De Giovanni reports

The leader of the main Darfur rebel group has been killed, the Sudanese army said today.

GEORGE CLOONEY and his ex-girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, were among more than 200 witnesses accepted by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

Actor George Clooney is among more than 200 witnesses accepted by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

Muammar Gaddafi’s son appears to have disappeared in the Sahara Desert and could remain hidden for months as the International Criminal Court and Libya’s new rulers argue about who should try him.

GEORGE Clooney has nothing to prove as an actor and he knows it.

South Sudan raised the flag of its new nation for the first time today, as thousands of South Sudanese citizens and dozens of international dignitaries swarmed the new country capital of Juba to celebrate the country’s birth.