UN Security Council

If star power guaranteed a country a seat at the UN Security Council for the 2021-22 term, Ireland would have the June 2020 election sown up right now(...)

Syria and Russia are determined to capture the jihadi-held enclave of eastern Ghouta despite pressure from the UN Security Council and western powers(...)

Syria’s army is poised to slice rebel-held eastern Ghouta in two as forces advancing from the east link up with troops at its western edge, a pro-Dam(...)

Russia said on Monday that it would establish a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave rebel-held suburbs of Damascus during a five-hour da(...)

President Emmanuel Macron has called US president Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel “regrettable” and a violati(...)

China hit back on Monday after US president Donald Trump tweeted he was “very disappointed” in China following North Korea’s latest missile test, sayi(...)

Less than 100 days after Donald Trump hosted Xi Jinping at his Florida resort and predicted that the two presidents were “going to have a very, very g(...)

A “French initiative” to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is not dead, the foreign ministers of France and Ireland said at a joint press c(...)

If he wins the primary of the conservative party Les Républicains on Sunday night, François Fillon will likely become president of France next May. W(...)

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and threatened “stern” actions against new U(...)