She went home to care for her mother and ended up in a Russian prison cellRussian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva is one of five victims of Putin’s use of hostage diplomacy since the full-scale invasion of UkraineMon Apr 08 2024 - 06:15
‘You cannot hide anywhere’: A historian in exile on the brutality of Russian societyWorldview: Russia’s deeply ingrained tradition of violence against its neighbours and its own citizens led inexorably to the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev arguesSat Mar 30 2024 - 06:30
‘Gaza is my being, my existence, my identity. The world cannot fail us now’World view: Palestinian ambassador to France Hala Abou Hassira says Israel has killed more than 100 members of her familySat Mar 09 2024 - 05:00
Seven key questions that will determine what happens next in UkraineThis is Ukraine’s darkest hour since the invasion. The country is exhausted. But no one trusts a Putin negotiationSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:00
Trump may not be a paid agent of Putin but he is certainly an asset to himSome recent conversations suggest Putin is winning the propaganda war - and he’ll have a willing stooge if Trump is electedSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:45
Biden may be the only person in the world with the power to impose a ceasefire in GazaInstead, Blinken’s handwringing and crocodile tears merely strengthen the impression of US hypocrisySat Jan 27 2024 - 05:00
Time and again, I saw the hopes of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s family crushedWill the truth about her murder now be buried with Ian Bailey, the only suspect?Tue Jan 23 2024 - 16:00
A highly contagious, psychosomatic malady called Ukraine fatigue is threatening the WestIf we give up on Ukraine and allow Putin to claim something he can characterise as victory, the results will be catastrophicSat Jan 06 2024 - 05:30
Americans are sleepwalking into a dictatorship. Why aren’t they more afraid?Worldview: A second Trump presidency could spell the disintegration of the Nato alliance, and would have far-reaching consequences for the wars in Ukraine and the Middle EastSat Dec 16 2023 - 05:00
Gross diplomatic negligence led to war between Israel and HamasContrary to what Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says, Hamas is not IsisTue Nov 28 2023 - 06:00
‘Gaza was an open-air prison. Now it is an open-air graveyard’Israel's leaders are demonising the Palestinian people, which is a precursor to ethnic cleansing and genocide, believes a British-Israeli historian and authority on Arab-Israeli conflictSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:15
Vincent van Gogh’s final days: The extraordinary paintings from the artist’s last burst of creative geniusA fabulous new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris, focuses on the artist’s troubled final months in the small French town of Auvers-sur-OiseSun Oct 22 2023 - 06:30
Hamas-Israel war brings direct confrontation between Iran and Israel closerWorldview: The fact that the most radical Palestinian groups are fundamentalist Sunni Muslims or Marxists never deterred the Shia Muslim Islamic Republic from arming, financing and training themSat Oct 14 2023 - 06:15
Were the Nord Stream pipelines among the biggest strategic errors of the 21st century?World View: Like a drug dealer, Putin fed Europe’s addiction, targeting the weaknesses of western politicians, a skill he honed as a KGB agent. The West was too drunk on cheap gas from Siberia to pay attentionSat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00
Lara Marlowe on being a war correspondent in Ukraine: ‘Experience is the antidote to fear’First person: The journalist on the psychological and practical challenges of working in war zonesThu Sept 14 2023 - 08:37
Ukraine’s female soldiers: Nobody will tell you, ‘You are a chick, so you are not going to fight and save me’Women soliders in Ukraine: The personal lives of many women in the country have been transformed as 60,000 are involved in the long fight to repel Russia’s invasionSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:06
Lara Marlowe: Two weeks in Ukraine taught me there are no easy answersWorldview: For Ukrainians, this war has been going on for nine years and most still insist there can be no compromise with PutinSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:00
The Ukrainian volunteers putting a roof back over their neighbours’ headsWith donations from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour among others, three friends from Kyiv in their 30s have been replacing roofs shelled by RussiansFri Sept 01 2023 - 17:00
‘Every day felt like the last day of your life, so people really hate Russia’Lara Marlowe talks to residents of Ukraine’s second city, which endured daily bombardments for the first six months of Russia’s full-scale invasionThu Aug 31 2023 - 05:00
War in Ukraine: ‘US officers would not allow their soldiers to assault with the equipment we have’Members of volunteer corps Praviy Sektor are fighting Russian forces at close quarters on the front line in the Donbas regionMon Aug 28 2023 - 19:52
To understand Zelenskiy’s dogged stubbornness, you must visit his hometownUkrainian president’s character is reflected in Kryvyi RihSat Aug 26 2023 - 11:00
‘I want to see out the war’: Irish filmmaker moved to Ukraine from Russia when ‘the pessimists were proved right’Dubliner Johnny O’Reilly graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Russian in 1995Fri Aug 25 2023 - 05:00
Putin describes Prigozhin as ‘talented businessman’ who ‘made some serious mistakes in life’US report concludes that the Wagner leader’s jet was downed by onboard bombFri Aug 25 2023 - 01:00
On Independence Day, Ukraine remembers rather than celebratesThe field of flags on the lawn at Maidan Square in Kyiv grows daily, each flag representing a life lost in warThu Aug 24 2023 - 05:00
Wagner mercenary chief Prigozhin reported to have died in plane crashDeath reported by Russian state television and social media channel affiliated with Wagner groupWed Aug 23 2023 - 21:24
Russian opponent of Putin: ‘We are getting weapons from the Ukrainians ... rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades’Ilya Ponomarev, a Kyiv-based Russian opposition figure, advocates the violent overthrow of Vladimir Putin by Russian exiles in UkraineWed Aug 23 2023 - 17:00
‘I thought the Russians were stupid to invade a country where girls are fighting for machine guns!’Ukrainian writer ‘Grandpa Svyryd’ was fighting as a machine gunner when he was badly wounded at the frontlineTue Aug 22 2023 - 17:42
‘I have 20 bullet holes in my body’: Ukrainian driver shares his sniper pastNationalist paramilitary group member reflects on his own life, on history and on killing RussiansTue Aug 22 2023 - 05:28
Russian war crimes: How The Hague can prosecute Putin and his backers for wholesale attacks on Ukrainian civilians International Criminal Court-accredited Franco-Swiss lawyer is advocating for dead civilians, children full of shrapnel and people who lost hands and feetFri Aug 11 2023 - 16:00
Journalists’ battle to keep big bad wolf of French media at bayVincent Bolloré's news group takeover is in its final stages and his pockets are deeper than the workers’ solidarity strike fundMon Jul 31 2023 - 05:00
Lara Marlowe: This vision of a divided, totalitarian US does not seem much like fictionWorldview: Douglas Kennedy’s new novel reads like an updated version of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-FourSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
Leon Gautier was an ‘ordinary citizen determined to achieve something extraordinary,’ says MacronLong life of last French survivor of D-Day landings a lesson in heroismTue Jul 18 2023 - 05:00
Teaching in the banlieue: ‘It is very tense. We don’t talk about sensitive topics any more’As youths in France riot over the killing of a teenager by police, schools in deprived suburbs are part of the problem and a potential solutionSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Lara Marlowe: Can Ukraine join Nato before the war ends?Ukraine’s wish to join the alliance is at the top of the agenda at the Nato summit in Vilnius next week, but there’s no clear consensus on how Nato should respondSat Jul 01 2023 - 06:30
Riots in France require Macron to demonstrate capacity to retake control of countryContrary to some expectations, French president swerves state of emergency as demanded by right-wing partiesFri Jun 30 2023 - 17:12
France police shooting: More than 6,000 protesters march over death of teenagerAt least 180 people were arrested and 170 police officers were injured during riots on Wednesday nightThu Jun 29 2023 - 17:32
Protests erupt across France over police killing of 17-year-old Arab boy Motorcycle policeman shot the youth dead when he refused to obey an instruction to pull over his car as it was stopped in trafficWed Jun 28 2023 - 16:26
The story about WB Yeats’ bones being sought from a French ossuary inspires French writerAn Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis BesserieWed Jun 28 2023 - 11:07
Tied up and mutilated after exposing a secret deal: An Irishwoman’s harrowing ordealMaureen Kearney’s true story of apparent treachery in the French nuclear industry has been made into a film, La Syndicaliste, starring Isabelle HuppertMon Jun 26 2023 - 05:00
‘For a long time Wagner were regarded as scruffy mercenaries. Western armies have finally woken up’With a reputation for extreme brutality, the group has an estimated 50,000 mercenaries in UkraineSat Jun 24 2023 - 11:21
Healthy growth in trade with our new nearest EU neighbourTop 1000: Rise in Franco-Irish business activity has been boosted by a post-Brexit rethinkWed Jun 21 2023 - 12:00
France sets new Guinness World Record for the largest spelling contest everParis Letter: The Avenue des Champes-Elysees was converted into a giant open-air classroom for the Dictee GeanteMon Jun 12 2023 - 15:03
‘The first star in history’: Sarah Bernhardt was the precursor of Garbo, Monroe, Madonna and BeyoncéOne hundred years after her death, the Petit Palais art museum in Paris is paying tribute to La Grande Sarah with an exhibition running until August 27thSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
‘I was afraid I would die in prison’: Bernard Phelan speaks about his seven-month ordeal in IranThe Irish man shared a cell block in Mashhad with political prisoners and drug traffickers - and condemned inmates awaiting executionMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Who is Bernard Phelan, the Irish-French national released from jail in Iran?Phelan, who lives in Paris with his husband, Roland Bonello, was working for an Iranian tour operator when he was detained seven months ago on charges of spyingMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Ukraine war strengthens ties between Russia and IranWestern relations with Iran and Russia cannot improve until or unless the Iran nuclear deal is restored and the assault on Ukraine endsTue May 23 2023 - 05:00
Sweden’s EU presidency is about making the union greener, safer and freerRussia, climate change, long-term growth and domestic immigration have been Sweden’s preoccupations during its termSat May 20 2023 - 05:00
The Vasa was one of the most powerful ships in the world, for about 20 minutesThe perfectly preserved ship from the 17th century provides first-hand information on diet, clothing and lifestyle of the timeTue May 16 2023 - 05:00
Manet/Degas: a compelling portrait of friends, rivals, jealousy and slashed paintingsA comparative exhibition in Paris’ Musée d’Orsay and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases world famous masterpieces and rarely seen works from around the worldSun Apr 23 2023 - 05:00
Minister striking a pose for Playboy ruffles feathers in French politicsCritics say Marlène Schiappa’s decision to pose for magazine is a distraction from vociferous nationwide protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reformsTue Apr 04 2023 - 16:56
