THERE is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. Sometimes it proves true, often it does not.

The Department of Finance and the Revenue Commissioners have no idea how many companies are Irish-incorporated but non-resident here for tax purposes.

President Barack Obama kicked off a three-country Asian tour with a visit to Thailand, using his first post-election trek overseas to try to show he is serious about shifting the US strategic focus eastwards.

A strong earthquake struck northern Burma today, causing a bridge and a gold mine to collapse, damaging several ancient Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.

The fate of captured Libyan dictator’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was being worked out today by international justice officials and the country’s rulers.

British Justice Secretary Jack Straw acknowledged today that the prospect of trade and oil deals with Libya played a part in the UK government’s handling of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she’s excited about a landmark trip she will make to Libya today, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century.

Serbia faced becoming a pariah state again tonight after an extreme nationalist party made massive gains in a general election.

THE US military yesterday said it had found the body of the bodyguard of Iraqi commander “Chemical Ali,” but Iraq dismissed reports the military chief himself may have died in an air strike.

THE Dublin-based mother of the convicted conman at the centre of the Cherie Blair affair in Britain may have had her phone tapped, it has emerged, after transcripts of tapes were published in a London newspaper.

Australian conman Peter Foster tried to sell the story of his involvement with Cherie Blair for tens of thousands of pounds according to what are claimed to be transcripts of his private telephone calls published tonight.

THE hypocrisy of Irish Government policy on fisheries is breathtaking.

Britain and the United States have insisted that sanctions against Libya cannot finally be lifted until it accepts responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing.