Diplomacy, the only alternative to war, is about meeting your enemy, and that is not a sign of weakness. Donald Trump is right to meet Kim Jong Un, says Peter Van Buren

Donald Trump has accused Democrats of being "un-American" and maybe even treasonous for failing to applaud him during his State of the Union speech.

This foreshore property in a stunning West Cork harbour setting has a long and varied sales history and is now back up for grabs, better than ever before. Back, too, the sort of value it had in 2003, guided at €900,000, writes Tommy Barker. 

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

As a parent, I want children’s hospital to be renamed

Latest: Malta has appealed to the FBI and to European forensic experts to help investigate the car bomb death of the country's leading investigative journalist.

Republican tax negotiators are targeting a US corporate tax rate of 20%, much higher than President Donald Trump wants — setting up a key decision for the president on a top legislative priority.

JP O’Malley talked to author Peter Conradi about the authoritarianism behind the growing tension between a former superpower and its neighbours in the Baltic and the EU.

Pádraig Hoare sets the scene for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. 

75 years on, the consequences of Pearl Harbour have yet to be fully played out, writes Geoffrey Roberts

Trump’s election has continued a trend in the US of dumbing down political life that has pushed the country down a perilous path, writes Nina Khrushcheva.

The infamous spies who infiltrated Britain in the 1950s and ‘60s came from the wealthy upper classes and went unchallenged in their roles, writes Neil Robinson.

January is a month for learning new things and many off-licences are offering wine courses this month and early next month.

For Dalymount Park, the fervent hope must be that we can soon be calling it the once and future home of Irish football.

Bernard-Henri Lévy finds extreme danger in a ‘fifth column’ of Western supporters who slavishly endorse every move by the Russian president.

The Soviets were crucial to the Allied victory in WW2, but 70 years on there is a rift again, says Geoffrey Roberts

US president Barack Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro have talked by telephone about restoring diplomatic ties and will meet informally at a summit this weekend as they seek to set aside decades of hostility between two Cold War enemies.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the US Congress that negotiations under way between Iran and the United States would “all but guarantee” that Tehran will get nuclear weapons, a step that the world must avoid at all costs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined plans for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine yesterday but Ukraine’s prime minister dismissed the proposal, while France expressed its disapproval of Moscow’s support for separatist forces by halting delivery of a warship.

A new lifeboat service went ‘live’ yesterday in a fishing village touched by one of the worst sea tragedies of recent years.

Ukraine’s president has vowed to boost military spending by 40 billion hryvnia (€2.25bn) in the next three years as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east.

The 55th Annual Rose of Tralee Festival gets underway in Co Kerry today.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said Moscow is ready to “work with” the new authorities in Ukraine which result from the presidential election planned for tomorrow.

Europeans, not least European Russians and the citizens of Ukraine, were right to tremble at the sight of Russian tanks and warships rolling into Crimea and the Black Sea.

Nato’s top military commander said Russia had a large force on Ukraine’s eastern border and that he was worried it could pose a threat to Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria region.

Ever since the Winter Olympics were awarded to Russia, fears were raised about potential terrorist attacks, which have plagued the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, writes Dmitri Trenin.

Ukraine’s embattled president Viktor Yanukovych has promised that some demonstrators arrested in the massive protests sweeping the capital will be released, part of a bid to defuse a political stand-off that is threatening his leadership.

Around 10,000 demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital have demanded the signing of an association agreement with the European Union – even though their country’s president has shelved plans for it.

US police have found an emaciated four-year-old boy in a flat with the body of his mother, who appeared to have been dead about five days.

Savings made over the coming years from pushing out the bank debt repayments should be pumped into job creation, according to Social Protection Minister Joan Burton.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has hailed a new phase in Europe’s economic relations with the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of Irish people will be anxiously watching their TV sets in a couple of hours time, when Europe's analogue TV signal is turned off.

Jonathan Wilson examines what lies in store for Trap and his team in Astana tomorrow night

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the summit of the Nonaligned Movement of mainly developing countries in Tehran next week despite strong opposition from Israel and Jewish groups outraged at Iran’s calls for the destruction of Israel, the UN announced today.

Vladimir Putin took the oath as Russia’s president yesterday with a ringing appeal for unity at the start of a six-year term in which he faces growing dissent, economic problems, and bitter political rivalries.

Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief but regal Kremlin ceremony today, while on the streets outside thousands of riot police prevented hundreds of demonstrators from protesting his return to the presidency.

If, as the property gurus would have us believe, it’s all about location, location, location, then Ireland can already claim victory in the European Championships.

Viva La Revolution!

May I correct one statement in Richard Fitzpatrick’s article (Features, Feb 16) on the escape of the double-agent George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 with the collaboration of Seán Bourke and assistance from Pat Pottle, my wife Anne, and myself.