Pontiff said he will ‘continue to speak out loudly against war’

Inside Politics: Government defends plans as ‘most generous in EU’ while Opposition and protesters dismiss measures as insufficient

US president praises 36-year-old’s second consecutive victory at Augusta

Trump takes credit for rise to papacy of Leo, one of the world’s most powerful critics of the US war with Iran

Move could cut global crude supply by 2 million barrels

Let’s start our journey into the mind of the Trump administration with a blue fish

A friend reminded me of a four-word letter to The Irish Times Gabriel Rosenstock wrote in 2007, when US troops were pouring into Iraq: ‘Cúrsaí ola, cúrsaí fola’

Cheng Li-wun, head of Taiwan’s KMT party, met Chinese president Xi Jinping

Peter Magyar’s Tisza party projected to win 138 out of 199 seats, a two-thirds majority that would enable it to change the constitution

US president says aim of move is to place chokehold on Tehran’s access to oil revenues

The US first lady’s shock statement last week took everybody – including Trump – by surprise, but what was behind it?

Fear of being drawn into prolonged negotiations with Iran is palpable

Stocks are profiting from the extinguishing of fires that didn’t need to be lit

Easy Rider director was so taken with Taos that he became its most notorious resident during the 1970s and its most feted retiree in the last years of his life

Worldview: European elites are ill-prepared for this scale of change in their relations with the US

Trump claims US has begun clearing mines in strait of Hormuz

JD Vance, a vocal opponent of US wars in the Middle East, has gone quiet since the beginning of the current military campaign

Donald Trump previously criticised the plan telling Starmer he was 'making a big mistake'

We can see that Nato is in disarray

There are some grounds for cautious optimism