For a group of former UCD students, a return trip to China marks half a century since an improbable tour that unfolded at a pivotal moment in the country’s history

Early returns point to election win for former president Rumen Radev’s centre-left Progressive Bulgaria party

Spain’s primer minister Pedro Sánchez resisted trumpeting the superiority of liberal democracy and European values during a visit this week

Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator, will go up against Roberto Sánchez in June

From France to the UK, governments across the globe are scrambling to take a range of measures to cushion consumers from increasing energy costs

Beijing presents itself as a responsible and reluctant hegemon, as Xi Jinping meets leaders from UAE, Vietnam and Spain

Blockade is primarily an instrument of economic coercion to gain leverage in talks process that remains alive

Election victor Peter Magyar opposes accelerating Kyiv’s EU admission and rejects the migration and asylum pact

Xi Jinping tells Cheng Li-wun that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait ‘are all Chinese’

Discretion about the role it may have played in persuading Iran to accept the ceasefire reflects China’s general approach to mediation

To Lam gets greater authority to push through reforms aimed at maintaining Vietnam’s high economic growth

Iran could emerge from this conflict in a much stronger geopolitical position than it was

Excessive border restrictions limit trade, investment and tourism

Leo uses Easter Sunday address to urge peace; Trump threatens to bomb Iran’s civilian infrastructure in expletive-stuffed post

As red songs ring out on a Sunday afternoon, a friend shares a story of pandemic loss and the search for solace