Daniel McLaughlin

Daniel McLaughlin

Daniel McLaughlin is a foreign correspondent with The Irish Times.

Police stand guard during the gay rights rally in Tbilisi. Photograph: Reuters
EU condemns attack on gay rights rally in Tbilisi, Georgia

Orthodox priests prominent as thousands-strong mob hounds activists

Syrian refugees wait in line for a daily bread ration distributed by the World Food Program at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Photograph: Lynsey Addario/The New York Times
Divisions apparent as UN urges Syrian talks

Ban Ki-moon’s meeting with Russia’s foreign minister yesterday only highlighted the major obstacles that remain

US ambassador Michael McFaul arrives at the Russian foreign ministry headquarters in Moscow yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
Kremlin says spy scandal will not halt push for closer Russia-US ties

Two CIA agents expelled this year for trying to recruit Russian spies, Moscow claims

Leader of centre-right GERB party Boiko Borisov. Photograph: Reuters
Bulgaria's far-right well placed as election deepens political stalemate

Result likely to increase despair at conduct of political and business elites

A supporter of Bulgaria’s centre-right Gerb party holds a poster of party leader Boiko Borisov during an election rally in the city of Veliko Tarnovo yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Stoyan Nenov
Snap election unlikely to ease growing despair in Bulgaria

Prime minister Boiko Borisov’s Gerb party expected to win ballot but not overall majority

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry attend a joint news conference after their meeting in Moscow. Photograph: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin
Syria's rebels sceptical on joint US-Russia push for peace

Kerry and Lavrov promise co-operation in pursuit of ‘significant common interests’

Participants in the March of the Living walk in Budapest last month honoured more than half a million Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust during the second World War. Photograph: Reuters/Laszlo Balogh
Hungary hosts Jewish Congress amid fears of far-right resurgence

The far-right Jobbik party’s anti-Roma and anti-Semitic rhetoric appeals to those looking for someone to blame for Hungary’s econo(...)

Rebel fighter William Plotnikov reads the Koran in this undated photo released by Dagestani branch of the Russian Federal Security Service.
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Russian investigators became concerned about Tsarnaev after he had made contact with Islamic radicals Plotnikov and Nidal

Special European prosecutor Jonathan Ratel during the trial in Pristina of five men who have been convicted of involvement in an international organ trafficking ring. Photographs: Hazir Reka/Reuters
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