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Chris Froome is free to race at the Tour de France this year after cycling’s world governing body closed a doping case against him. So what does the (...)

Moldova’s pro-western opposition is urging the EU to impose sanctions on leaders whom they accuse of turning the country into a “dictatorship”, follo(...)

A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder has staged a daring escape from a prison south of Paris using a helicopter. A huge manhunt ha(...)

France’s Carrefour and Britain’s Tesco, Europe’s two largest supermarket groups, plan to form a global purchasing alliance to cut costs in the face of(...)

Richard Ryan, Ireland’s permanent representative at the United Nations, was preparing for the second week of the Irish month-long presidency of the UN(...)

Winning a seat on the UN Security Council would place Ireland “at the heart of UN decision-making on international peace, security and development,” T(...)

A photography exhibition of families from across Europe who met through the Erasmus study-abroad programme opens in Dublin on Monday. The show, in St(...)

Ireland 3 (S Loughrey, S O’Donoghue, A Sothern) France 0 Craig Fulton received a fine send-off from the Irish senior men as his final weekend as head(...)

Portugal 1 Uruguay 2 Edinson Cavani sent Uruguay into a World Cup quarter-final against France with two goals of the highest order eliminating Portug(...)

France 4 Argentina 3 If Argentina paid much attention to France’s pre-tournament friendlies they might be forgiven if they made the mistake of discou(...)