The Greek island of Lesbos has been a transit point for hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers. Moria refugee camp is a former detention centre with capacity for less than 3,000 people. Caoimhe Butterly meets some of the families caught up in the chaos and despair.

Outbreaks the size of small cities are spreading across East Africa, with the flying insects devouring crops and depriving many millions of people of food, says Anne O’Mahony

The worst outbreak of desert locusts in decades is currently underway in the Horn of Africa. It is the biggest of its kind in 25 years for Ethiopia and Somalia – and the worst Kenya has seen for 70 years. Pakistan is also affected.

A prosecuting barrister said the matter of insanity is at issue in Yusif Ali Abdi's case, but that there is a large amount of agreement between the parties in relation to this.

The Irish Examiner has scooped two awards in the 2019 Newsbrands Ireland Journalism Awards.

Micheál Martin has lashed out at Donald Trump’s “outrageous” race-based comments claiming they do “a disservice to democracy” .

Who said the following: “The vast majority of asylum seekers are free-loaders, blackguards, and hoodlums. They are hunted out of their own placeby their own people. I’d take a genuine asylum seeker and put him under my own roof. But where is he?

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

A mentally-ill woman who kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach in an unprovoked attack has been jailed for two and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An Irish startup using virtual and augmented reality is providing training solutions for companies in high-risk industries.

Cholera killed tens of thousands in Europe and the US in the 1800s, but is now mostly confined to developing countries. The goal is to have cut its death rate by 90% by 2030, according to Anita Zaidi.

The Irish authorities had the lowest rate of refusal to applications from asylum seekers of any of the EU’s 28 member states last year.

Tributes have been paid to “the heartbeat” of Trócaire, Sally O’Neill Sanchez, who was killed in a car crash in Guatemala.

Two women who got refugee status here and later became Irish citizens have lost significant test actions over whether they are entitled to enhanced family reunification rights under the Refugee Act.

Two women who got refugee status here and later became Irish citizens have lost significant test actions over whether they are entitled to enhanced family reunification rights under the Refugee Act.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group says it killed the manager of a Dubai government-owned port operator in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

George H.W. Bush was the last person elected president of the United States with any prior foreign policy experience.

A man who murdered his infant son 17 years ago is seeking to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice on grounds that he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in recent years.

The international community’s ambition for aid must go beyond keeping people alive, to offering migrants a future, says Jorge Moreira da Silva.

Rather than focus exclusively on the obstacles journalists face globally, let’s mark World Press Freedom Day by considering the many reasons for optimism, says Leon Willems.

Liberalising abortion laws causes no increase in the number of abortions carried out, a new report shows.

Ireland has been ranked as the 19th least corrupt country in the world in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

The great American comedian George Carlin had a terrific routine in which he talked about the language used in American football, writes Michael Moynihan.

The US Supreme Court has allowed full enforcement of Donald Trump's travel ban affecting residents of six mostly Muslim countries.

Some 1.25 million people are facing starvation in war-torn South Sudan, double the number from the same time last year, according to a report by the United Nations and the country's government.

A suspected US air strike has targeted a base run by Islamic State-affiliated fighters in Somalia's northern state of Puntland, according to a security official.

Somalia's president is expected to announce a "state of war" against the al-Shabab extremist group after last week's truck bombing which killed 358 people in Mogadishu.

The death toll in Somalia's worst ever terror attack has risen to 358.

A judge in Hawaii has blocked the latest version of the Trump administration travel ban just hours before it was set to take effect.

It is important that the disease is not forgotten even when it is not claiming victims, writes Dominique Legros.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.

The Naval Service has successfully tested a revolutionary new radar system which it is hoping to market globally.

Ireland has been ranked as the country best able to feed its inhabitants in a global food security index.

Europe needs to find a new way of working with Africa to prevent famines and other crises repeatedly occurring, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has said.

Citizens of eight countries, including North Korea and Venezuela, will face new restrictions on entry to the US under a proclamation signed by President Donald Trump that will replace his expiring travel ban.

A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home.

US president Donald Trump's childhood home in New York received some new occupants over the weekend - refugees.

The season of mellow fruitfulness again swings round, the sun grows yellow, and the sky, when blue, is sharp and clear.

The humanitarian tragedy in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen is not new, but unless the world works for longterm change at a local level we’re doomed to see the cycle of suffering to continue, says Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré.

The killer burst of speed down the home straight, the arms outstretched in victory as he crossed the line, eyes so wide they looked in imminent danger of popping out of their sockets, a mixture of joy and pain etched across his face - the scenes were nothing new.

The US military has said it carried out a drone strike in Somalia that killed a member of the al-Shabab extremist group, while Somalia's government said it believes the strike killed a high-level al-Shabab commander responsible for several deadly bombings in the capital.

Twelve Ugandan soldiers were killed and seven others injured in an ambush by al-Shabab Islamic extremists in southern Somalia on Sunday, Uganda's military said.

The UN has described it as potentially the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War but the rest of the world seems unaware of how bad things are, writes Paul Healy

Dear America, In a few hours, I’ll be heading off to the airport to visit you. Briefly, no strings.