Last-minute deal agreed at global biodiversity summit
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Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice by Steve Crawshaw - when impunity cannot be tolerated
Book review: Steve Crawshaw looks at the historical development of international justice and the various challenges and crises it has faced, and continues to face
‘Defending our bodies and land’: Why the fight to protect the environment is a matter of life and death in Honduras
Increasing violence and US aid freeze leaves indigenous communities in Honduras vulnerable
What does the US siding with Russia mean for Irish neutrality?
In the new world order, where the US sides with Russia, Ireland no longer has the luxury of teetering between political and military neutrality
Letters to the Editor, February 26th: Neutrality and a changing world; Shamrock diplomacy; Hassan Nasrallah and human rights
Instead of joining a future military alliance, there should be a referendum to enshrine neutrality into the Constitution
‘You are not alone’: Dozens of countries offer support to Ukraine
Message comes day after UN Security Council adopts neutral stance on conflict
Russia rejects Trump claim that it would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine
China and Russia back US resolution calling for end to war without assigning blame
Disabled people wanting to go into politics are hindered by cost, negative attitudes and even fear of violence
Political parties urged to consider greater diversity when proposing candidates for election and co-option
Europeans win in UN clash with US over rival Ukraine resolutions
UN General Assembly adopts two resolutions on war in Ukraine
Proposals to change triple lock potentially ‘very dangerous’ – Sinn Féin
Government insists plans will not infringe on Ireland’s military neutrality
First group of migrants deported from US arrive in Costa Rica
Group deported under new Trump crackdown on immigration after illegally crossing southern border
Failure to submit emission targets to UN indication climate is not priority for Government, says Green Party leader
Ireland will provide joint commitments with EU later this year, Department of Climate says
Chinese foreign minister to meet Martin and Harris tomorrow
Wang Yi will travel to Dublin after telling summit European countries must have role in Ukraine talks
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and The World after Gaza: holding the West to account
Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same
Ireland should reimagine its relationship with Africa
An increasing number of ‘middle powers’ are stepping up their engagement in Africa in an effort to bolster their global influence
A neuropsychologist’s view on Donald Trump: We’re seeing the impact of power on the human brain
US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould
Record heat of last year unlikely to be a one-off, scientists warn
World may already be in period where Paris climate pact target of keeping temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees is breached sooner than anticipated
Nothing drives a truck through your prospects quite like the wrong man
Violence is a devastatingly routine part of life for a major segment of the population
‘Alarming rise’ in Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners
Public figures in the Russian Federation have called for inhumane treatment or execution of captured military
Congo’s army and Burundian allies slow Rwandan-backed M23 rebels from pushing south
Fighting around Mukwinja, a town of more than one million people, is slowing the rebel advance
It is an absurdity to think humanitarian aid into Gaza could be banned so soon into the ceasefire
The aid system cannot function without Unrwa in Gaza, which co-ordinates logistics, safety, fuel provision and movement
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels consolidate control over Goma as Kagame agrees need for Congo ceasefire
Rebels marched into city on Monday in worst escalation of conflict in more than a decade
Israel’s Unrwa ban will have an adverse effect on the humanitarian effort in Gaza
Law preventing UN agency from operating in Israel and Palestinian territories comes into force on Thursday
Trump’s blunderbuss strategies on climate and energy may backfire in ways he has not envisaged
Pulling out of Paris Agreement was predictable theatre, but resulting temperature and emission rises will push Earth to dangerous tipping points
Congo authorities block access to Goma airport as rebels advance
At least 13 peacekeepers killed as three-year insurgency by rebel group M23 intensifies
Israel retains right to resume war in Gaza if ceasefire proves pointless, Netanyahu says
Israeli prime minister says ceasefire cannot go into effect on Sunday without list of hostage names
Should Ireland pass the Occupied Territories Bill? Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy and former ambassador Daniel Mulhall debate
Contentious proposed law would ban trade with Israeli firms operating in occupied Palestinian territory
UN predicts world economic growth to remain at 2.8% in 2025
Expansion to continue at slower pace than before the Covid pandemic
Election of Joseph Aoun ends Lebanon’s two years without a president
UN official calls on new president to appoint a prime minister, after two years of caretaker cabinet
Irish ICJ submission on Gaza asks UN court to consider repeated human rights violations as suggestive of genocide
Ireland says inference can be drawn from a state’s actions that it is guilty of genocide even where no direct evidence of such a policy is produced
Iran executed more than 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women, says UN
Year-on-year rise in executions ‘deeply disturbing’, says UN human rights commissioner Volker Türk
Ireland’s future weather will be even warmer and wetter than predicted, scientists warn
Supercomputer helps deliver more accurate indication of what the future holds for Ireland’s climate with new indications on regional impacts
Newborn freezes to death in Gaza as thousands of displaced face winter cold and heavy rain
Jumaa al-Batran is one of six Palestinians who have died of exposure and cold in recent days
Israel’s hospital attacks have put Gaza healthcare on brink of collapse, says UN
New report catalogues besieging and targeting of hospitals with explosives and killing of medical staff
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