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Joe Biden’s in tray: President faces daunting agenda after Trump era
- US
- January 20, 2021
As Joe Biden enters the White House as president, a new era has begun in the United States. After four years of turmoil, controversy and national divi(...)

Ireland takes seat on powerful UN Security Council, aiming to be ‘consensus builder’
- Politics
- January 1, 2021, 08:22
Ireland will be aim to be “a catalyst for more consensus building” as the State takes a seat on the UN Security Council, Minister for Foreign Affairs (...)

Trump continues to claim he won election at campaign rally in Georgia
- US
- December 6, 2020, 20:30
US president Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail this weekend, making unsubstantiated claims that he won the presidential election at a rally (...)

Foreign powers press Ethiopia for Tigray peace talks
- Africa
- November 16, 2020, 11:18
Some African and European nations pressed Ethiopia behind the scenes on Monday to allow mediation of a war in a northern region that has spilled in(...)

State’s overseas development aid increased 10% to €869m last year
- Social Affairs
- November 14, 2020, 09:16
State spending on overseas development aid rose by nearly 10 per cent in 2019 with the Government set to increase spending by an additional €21 mil(...)

What’s at stake as conflict flares in Ethiopia?
- Africa
- November 5, 2020, 15:39
Heavy fighting has broken out in the northern region of Tigray after Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, announced he was sending troops to the res(...)

Somali-American congresswoman ‘hates’ US, Trump tells rally
- US
- October 27, 2020, 21:42
US president Donald Trump hit out at Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a campaign rally in Michigan on Tuesday, claiming the first-term memb(...)

UN’s 2030 ‘zero hunger’ target in peril, Global Hunger Index shows
- World
- October 12, 2020, 01:00
Persisting hunger across the planet is an “immense mountain” that must overcome if the UN sustainable development goal of “zero hunger” is to be reali(...)

US president Donald Trump insisted that he won Tuesday night’s presidential debate “big” as the White House struggled to contain the fallout from his (...)

Sweden’s Covid maverick: ‘It’s not going to be fixed by one kind of measure’
- Europe
- September 13, 2020, 16:48
At the start of this year, Anders Tegnell was just a low-profile bureaucrat in a country of 10 million people, heading a department that collects and (...)