Ukraine’s female soldiers: Nobody will tell you, ‘You are a chick, so you are not going to fight and save me’Women soliders in Ukraine: The personal lives of many women in the country have been transformed as 60,000 are involved in the long fight to repel Russia’s invasionSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:06
Lara Marlowe: Two weeks in Ukraine taught me there are no easy answersWorldview: For Ukrainians, this war has been going on for nine years and most still insist there can be no compromise with PutinSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:00
The Ukrainian volunteers putting a roof back over their neighbours’ headsWith donations from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour among others, three friends from Kyiv in their 30s have been replacing roofs shelled by RussiansFri Sept 01 2023 - 17:00
‘Every day felt like the last day of your life, so people really hate Russia’Lara Marlowe talks to residents of Ukraine’s second city, which endured daily bombardments for the first six months of Russia’s full-scale invasionThu Aug 31 2023 - 05:00
War in Ukraine: ‘US officers would not allow their soldiers to assault with the equipment we have’Members of volunteer corps Praviy Sektor are fighting Russian forces at close quarters on the front line in the Donbas regionMon Aug 28 2023 - 19:52
To understand Zelenskiy’s dogged stubbornness, you must visit his hometownUkrainian president’s character is reflected in Kryvyi RihSat Aug 26 2023 - 11:00
‘I want to see out the war’: Irish filmmaker moved to Ukraine from Russia when ‘the pessimists were proved right’Dubliner Johnny O’Reilly graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Russian in 1995Fri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Putin describes Prigozhin as ‘talented businessman’ who ‘made some serious mistakes in life’US report concludes that the Wagner leader’s jet was downed by onboard bombFri Aug 25 2023 - 01:00
On Independence Day, Ukraine remembers rather than celebratesThe field of flags on the lawn at Maidan Square in Kyiv grows daily, each flag representing a life lost in warThu Aug 24 2023 - 05:00
Wagner mercenary chief Prigozhin reported to have died in plane crashDeath reported by Russian state television and social media channel affiliated with Wagner groupWed Aug 23 2023 - 21:24
Russian opponent of Putin: ‘We are getting weapons from the Ukrainians ... rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades’Ilya Ponomarev, a Kyiv-based Russian opposition figure, advocates the violent overthrow of Vladimir Putin by Russian exiles in UkraineWed Aug 23 2023 - 17:00
‘I thought the Russians were stupid to invade a country where girls are fighting for machine guns!’Ukrainian writer ‘Grandpa Svyryd’ was fighting as a machine gunner when he was badly wounded at the frontlineTue Aug 22 2023 - 17:42
‘I have 20 bullet holes in my body’: Ukrainian driver shares his sniper pastNationalist paramilitary group member reflects on his own life, on history and on killing RussiansTue Aug 22 2023 - 05:28
Russian war crimes: How The Hague can prosecute Putin and his backers for wholesale attacks on Ukrainian civilians International Criminal Court-accredited Franco-Swiss lawyer is advocating for dead civilians, children full of shrapnel and people who lost hands and feetFri Aug 11 2023 - 16:00
Journalists’ battle to keep big bad wolf of French media at bayVincent Bolloré's news group takeover is in its final stages and his pockets are deeper than the workers’ solidarity strike fundMon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Lara Marlowe: This vision of a divided, totalitarian US does not seem much like fictionWorldview: Douglas Kennedy’s new novel reads like an updated version of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-FourSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
Leon Gautier was an ‘ordinary citizen determined to achieve something extraordinary,’ says MacronLong life of last French survivor of D-Day landings a lesson in heroismTue Jul 18 2023 - 05:00
Teaching in the banlieue: ‘It is very tense. We don’t talk about sensitive topics any more’As youths in France riot over the killing of a teenager by police, schools in deprived suburbs are part of the problem and a potential solutionSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Lara Marlowe: Can Ukraine join Nato before the war ends?Ukraine’s wish to join the alliance is at the top of the agenda at the Nato summit in Vilnius next week, but there’s no clear consensus on how Nato should respondSat Jul 01 2023 - 06:30
Riots in France require Macron to demonstrate capacity to retake control of countryContrary to some expectations, French president swerves state of emergency as demanded by right-wing partiesFri Jun 30 2023 - 17:12
France police shooting: More than 6,000 protesters march over death of teenagerAt least 180 people were arrested and 170 police officers were injured during riots on Wednesday nightThu Jun 29 2023 - 17:32
Protests erupt across France over police killing of 17-year-old Arab boy Motorcycle policeman shot the youth dead when he refused to obey an instruction to pull over his car as it was stopped in trafficWed Jun 28 2023 - 16:26
The story about WB Yeats’ bones being sought from a French ossuary inspires French writerAn Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis BesserieWed Jun 28 2023 - 11:07
Tied up and mutilated after exposing a secret deal: An Irishwoman’s harrowing ordealMaureen Kearney’s true story of apparent treachery in the French nuclear industry has been made into a film, La Syndicaliste, starring Isabelle HuppertMon Jun 26 2023 - 05:00
‘For a long time Wagner were regarded as scruffy mercenaries. Western armies have finally woken up’With a reputation for extreme brutality, the group has an estimated 50,000 mercenaries in UkraineSat Jun 24 2023 - 11:21
Healthy growth in trade with our new nearest EU neighbourTop 1000: Rise in Franco-Irish business activity has been boosted by a post-Brexit rethinkWed Jun 21 2023 - 12:00
France sets new Guinness World Record for the largest spelling contest everParis Letter: The Avenue des Champes-Elysees was converted into a giant open-air classroom for the Dictee GeanteMon Jun 12 2023 - 15:03
‘The first star in history’: Sarah Bernhardt was the precursor of Garbo, Monroe, Madonna and BeyoncéOne hundred years after her death, the Petit Palais art museum in Paris is paying tribute to La Grande Sarah with an exhibition running until August 27thSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
‘I was afraid I would die in prison’: Bernard Phelan speaks about his seven-month ordeal in IranThe Irish man shared a cell block in Mashhad with political prisoners and drug traffickers - and condemned inmates awaiting executionMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Who is Bernard Phelan, the Irish-French national released from jail in Iran?Phelan, who lives in Paris with his husband, Roland Bonello, was working for an Iranian tour operator when he was detained seven months ago on charges of spyingMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Ukraine war strengthens ties between Russia and IranWestern relations with Iran and Russia cannot improve until or unless the Iran nuclear deal is restored and the assault on Ukraine endsTue May 23 2023 - 05:00
Sweden’s EU presidency is about making the union greener, safer and freerRussia, climate change, long-term growth and domestic immigration have been Sweden’s preoccupations during its termSat May 20 2023 - 05:00
The Vasa was one of the most powerful ships in the world, for about 20 minutesThe perfectly preserved ship from the 17th century provides first-hand information on diet, clothing and lifestyle of the timeTue May 16 2023 - 05:00
Manet/Degas: a compelling portrait of friends, rivals, jealousy and slashed paintingsA comparative exhibition in Paris’ Musée d’Orsay and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases world famous masterpieces and rarely seen works from around the worldSun Apr 23 2023 - 05:00
Minister striking a pose for Playboy ruffles feathers in French politicsCritics say Marlène Schiappa’s decision to pose for magazine is a distraction from vociferous nationwide protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reformsTue Apr 04 2023 - 16:56
Friends gather in Paris for Bernard Phelan, the Irish man imprisoned in Iran: ‘He is being tormented psychologically’The tour operator was arrested in Iran last October at the height of nationwide protests over the death in police custody of Mahsa AminiSun Apr 02 2023 - 18:35
Ukraine war: Where do things stand?As western weapons flow to Ukraine, a spring offensive is imminent despite Russia’s nuclear rhetoricFri Mar 31 2023 - 17:15
France protests: Turnout drops but hostility remains acuteAbout 740,000 demonstrate across France against Macron’s pension reformTue Mar 28 2023 - 21:18
Visit of King Charles to France postponed following fierce pension-reform protestsMove highlights Macron’s inability to control events in his own countryFri Mar 24 2023 - 17:28
Determined Macron’s pension reform in doubt amid growing anger in FrancePossibly millions will go on strike for ninth time in two months in hope of forcing president to abandon law raising legal retirement age to 64Wed Mar 22 2023 - 19:14
Protests in Paris as Macron passes pension reform without vote France in political crisis as reform, which will raise legal retirement age from 62 to 64, is passed by decreeThu Mar 16 2023 - 19:28
Giovanni Bellini: Father of the Renaissance, painter of translucid lightA new exhibition in Paris reveals the extraordinary originality and influence of Venetian artistSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
A Stranger in Your Own City, and Taking Sides: hard-hitting Middle East journalism memoirsLara Marlowe on notable new works by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Sherine TadrosSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
Analysis: France and Britain’s relationship built on defence co-operationTraining and equipping of Ukrainian forces is an immediate prioritySat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
Sunak meets Macron and signals shift in British attitude towards France and EuropeLeaders say they have made progress on migration across the English Channel and co-operation in energy and defenceFri Mar 10 2023 - 19:30
Further nationwide protests in France against Macron’s pension reformStrikes to continue in transport and energy sectors with power cuts and petrol shortages possibleTue Mar 07 2023 - 20:25
Macron attempts to re-assert waning French influence on central African trip Security and trade have the mainstays of French policy in Africa to date, but president keen for new partnership between South and NorthWed Mar 01 2023 - 18:32
French assembly driven to brink as politicians overindulge in alcoholAlcohol-fuelled debates on pension reform prompt study on alcohol consumptionTue Feb 28 2023 - 16:57
Teacher stabbed to death by student in southwest FrancePupil (16) told another teacher he heard voices instructing him to carry out attack on victim (50s) – reportWed Feb 22 2023 - 17:11
Ex-Gorbachev spokesman believes most optmistic scenario is Korean-style partition of Ukraine Gorbachev’s last spokesman is pessimistic and believes the most optimistic scenario now would be a Korean-style de facto partition of UkraineTue Feb 21 2023 - 17:07
