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Trump criticises ‘delinquent’ Nato members over defence spending
- US
- June 24, 2020, 22:15
US president Donald Trump hit out at “delinquent” Nato members as he called on all members of the transatlantic alliance – particularly Germany (...)

US president Donald Trump’s attempt to reinvigorate his election campaign suffered a setback on Saturday, after a smaller than expected crowd attended(...)

‘Civil rights isn’t over’: Americans mark Juneteenth coast to coast
- US
- June 20, 2020, 08:23
Thousands marched through US cities on Friday in Juneteenth observances marking the abolition of slavery more than a century and a half ago, an occasi(...)

Juneteenth celebrations spread to corporate America
- Work
- June 19, 2020, 08:04
A growing list of US companies across finance, technology, retail and other industries are giving employees Friday off to commemorate Juneteenth. Whil(...)

Watching Donald Trump is excruciating. How did we get here?
- US
- June 7, 2020, 16:02
My mom always spelled out I Street as Eye Street when she addressed mail there, so it wouldn’t be confusing. On May 30th, the eyes of the world were (...)

All day they came, drawn to downtown Washington DC with its iconic monuments and grand symbols of American power. From the White House to the Lincoln(...)

Edward Luce: Spectre of race-based US election appears
- US
- May 31, 2020, 19:02
The novelist William Faulkner said: “The past is not dead. It is not even past.” The past 72 hours of burning US cities triggered parallels with 1968 (...)

US-China tensions ramp up as Trump issues ultimatum to WHO
- US
- May 19, 2020, 19:00
Tensions between China and the United States have escalated further after president Donald Trump warned the World Health Organisation (WHO) that it sh(...)

‘The greatest war correspondent’ – An Irishman’s Diary on William Howard Russell
- Opinion
- April 14, 2020, 00:01
His epitaph in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral in London states: “The first and greatest war correspondent”. And while William Howard Russell, an Iri(...)

Maureen Dowd: Coronavirus exposes mental inadequacies of Trump
- US
- March 8, 2020, 18:14
The cruel insults to Joe Biden’s mental acuity are flying fast and ferocious on Fox News. How can we trust the nuclear codes to someone so incoherent,(...)