General Assembly

President Michael D Higgins has said creating a “popular culture of human rights” has never been more urgent than it is today. Mr Higgins said the f(...)

An Irish charity that protects human rights workers worldwide has been named as one of the winners of the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize. Fro(...)

US president Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia’s King Salman “might not be there for two weeks” without US military support. Mr Trump is seeking to (...)

Britain’s Labour party has voted to keep open the option of a second referendum on Brexit, which could lead to a reversal of the 2016 vote to leave th(...)

The future of US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein remained in the balance on Monday night amid reports that the senior US justice official was c(...)

President Donald Trump and US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 pr(...)

Bookings for World Meeting of Families events in Dublin next month “before it ever starts, has already exceeded all records,” Bishop of Kildare and Le(...)

A total of 232 Presbyterian ministers and elders have acknowledged “the profound sense of hurt, dismay and anger” felt in the church following decisio(...)

U2 frontman Bono paid tribute on Sunday night to the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney for their “very hard work” in protecting “our b(...)

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(...)