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Global stocktake means there will be no place to hide for countries not delivering on emission cuts

Fossil fuel allegations dismissed by Cop28 hosts as UAE insists ‘unprecedented outcome' still achievable

‘It’s time for fossil fuel companies to contribute to climate finance to provide clean energy for vulnerable countries,’ Minister for Climate says ahead of gathering

Timed phase-out of fossil fuels needed, and should be progressed at climate summit, conference told

Government needs to clarify type of mission Triple Lock has prevented in past, says Éamon Ó Cúiv

Hamas was expected to release 14 hostages in exchange for Israel freeing 42 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday

There are welcome trends, but the latest science from multiple sources is killing the positive outlook: human-made greenhouse gases are still rising despite big pledges

To recite the Goldstone Report is not to suggest that Israel is all wrong and Hamas is all right; the point is the sense of deja vu it conveys

Under the policy change, the Green Party believes the triple lock should remain for any multilateral overseas military operation that requires peace enforcement

Triple Lock gives ‘great powers’ a veto over where State deploys peacekeeping troops, says Varadkar

Opposition unites to condemn Government plans to remove triple lock mechanism

Government contends the mechanism grants powers such as Russia and China the power to dictate where Ireland can send its troops

Micheál Martin also announces commitments to greater international military co-operation and domestic security

‘Our [carbon] pollution levels are pushing us over the edge into catastrophic climate breakdown’ - FoE

Countries’ ‘emissions gap’ is like an emissions canyon littered with broken promises, broken lives, and broken records, says UN chief

Distinguishing feature of genocide is the intent to destroy a group. If we do not call out atrocities for what they are, we are all made complicit

Seven months into Sudan’s civil war, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies are ransacking and capturing the Darfur region

Catherine Russell declares that ‘inside the Strip, there is nowhere that is safe for Gaza’s one million children’

Israel claims soldiers found weapons and ‘terror infrastructure’ beneath Al Shifa compound after killing fighters outside

‘Despite decades of warnings from the scientific community, we are still heading in the wrong direction’, says WMO report

Violence by settlers has become ‘much more considerable and much more lethal’ since October 7th, says UN official

Climate crisis research says overheating of the planet could persist

High-emitting states need to agree funding for new loss and damage fund agreed at Cop27, say lobby groups

Israel claims facility sits on top of tunnels containing headquarters for Hamas fighters who are using human shields

Nine Irish army soldiers killed during Niemba Ambush in Congo in 1960 remembered in Dublin

40 heroin overdoses in recent days linked to banning of opium production in Afghanistan

WHO workers report ‘intense violence’ and ‘significant bombardment’ on facilities as Palestinian authorities say death toll nearing 11,100

Proposal for four-hour ceasefires is ‘cynical and cruel’, says UN special rapporteur on Palestine

Shanghai Letter: Micheál Martin emphasises complexity of global supply chains and impossibility of decoupling economies of China, Europe and the US

Ireland’s experience shows ‘peaceful coexistence is possible’, Leo Varadkar tells Paris conference

Population growth and global warming compound difficulties in finding a global solution

The statement made by Antonio Guterres, that October 7th did not happen in a vacuum, was based on considerable and substantive evidence

Israel Defence Forces say they have sealed off the city and are closing in on Hamas’s military and centres of power

No matter how often Israeli politicians state that the military bombardment of Gaza is lawful, the watching world knows the truth

The herding community were told they had one hour to leave their homes at Wadi a-Seeq

Irish diplomats ‘urgently’ seeking for citizens trapped in enclave to be included in future evacuations, Department says

Islamabad’s threat has torn families apart and pushed even Afghans with valid papers to leave

Some 8,525 people killed in besieged Palestinian enclave since October 7th as Netanyahu dismisses calls for halt to fighting

The sole Arab member of the United Nations Security Council normalised relations with Israel in 2020 but war is causing fresh divisions

Nepalese peacekeeper injured in latest shelling as all Irish forces accounted for and safe - Defence Forces