Category: World

Following the agreement between Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov to initiate talks on issues affecting the operations of our respective diplomatic missions, delegations from both countries met on February 27 in Istanbul, Turkey. The U.S. delegation was led by Sonata Coulter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Russia and Central Europe, and the Russian […]

Let me start by recognising the contributions and sacrifices of the 6,100 UNPOL women and men currently deployed across 12 UN missions worldwide. As we’ve heard, UNPOL’s role is is fundamental to the successful delivery of the Action for Peacekeeping Plus Initiative (A4P+). Supporting and advising countries in crisis, conflict, and post-conflict situations, preventing crime, […]

In a significant legal development, Louis Donald Mendonsa, a resident of Sacramento, California, has been sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison for his involvement in managing four dark web platforms dedicated to the dissemination of child sexual abuse content. Mendonsa, 62, was found guilty of facilitating the operation of websites that promoted, […]

An international team of researchers is developing a model of Mars’s evolution that could unlock some of its long-held secrets, including whether it once harboured life. François Forget, a space scientist from the Pierre Simon Laplace Institute in France, is the man looking for those answers. He is not a time traveller, but is hoping […]

  High energy costs are hurting EU citizens and businesses. The Affordable Energy Action Plan sets out concrete short-term measures to lower energy costs for citizens, businesses, industry and communities across the EU, complete the Energy Union, attract investments, and be better prepared for potential energy crises. This will allow for overall estimated savings of […]

Minister for Rural and Community Development Dara Calleary has announced €1.1 million in funding for the Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Historical Dictionary of Irish), a major research initiative by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). The funding, spread over four years, aims to create an authoritative historical dictionary of modern Irish, drawing on material from 1600 […]

Donald Trump has always been an avowed transactionalist rather than a transatlanticist. The author of The Art of the Deal made it clear during his first term as US president that he thought Nato was a bad deal for the US. He publicly berated European allies, notably Germany, for not spending enough on defence and […]

Two men have been convicted of sexual offences against two girls more than 20 years ago. The two victims in this case were aged just 14 and 15 when the offending began, and both were living in the care system. During the offending period, between September 1996 and December 1997, Paul Doyle, 64, ran a […]

In a bold move, Tulsi Gabbard, the newly appointed Director of National Intelligence (DNI), announced the firing of more than 100 U.S. intelligence officers from various agencies, citing inappropriate use of internal government chatrooms. These chatrooms, hosted on the NSA’s highly secure Intelink platform, were meant for professionals to discuss sensitive national security topics. However, […]

Israel has confirmed the transfer of four bodies, believed to be Israeli hostages, by Hamas as part of a larger ceasefire deal. The bodies of Shlomo Mansour (86), Ohad Yahalomi (50), Tsachi Idan (50), and Itzik Elgarat (69), who were taken during the October 7, 2023 attack, have been handed over to Israel via Red […]