US Senate passes spending legislation to avert government shutdown
Bill will now be sent to White House where President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law
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The world is no longer multipolar - it is ‘multiplex’
Worldview: Multipolarity is based mainly on nineteenth and early twentieth century European precedents concerning balances of state military and strategic power. A multiplex world allows due place in producing order and disorder for institutions, corporations, extremists and social movements
Ukraine: Key events that shaped 2024 and will influence the conflict in 2025
Ukraine is still standing after more than 1,000 days of full-scale fighting with Russia, in the biggest war in Europe since 1945
Donald Trump is changing America in ways that will reverberate long after he is dead
The US president is a once-in-a-lifetime master manipulator of the unseen energies that sway the electorate
Western indifference to Israel’s thirst for war defines a grotesque year of hypocrisy
As China and Russia weigh up their options in anticipation of Donald Trump’s second presidency, horrified countries in the Global South see Gaza as an emblem of US and European double standards
Fatalities in Kursk and Kyiv as Ukraine and Russia trade missile strikes
At least one dead in Kyiv and six killed in Russia’s Kursk region
Peter Mandelson named UK ambassador to US for ‘new chapter of friendship’
‘Prince of Darkness’ will seek to woo Trump administration, avoid trade war and ensure the countries remain aligned over Ukraine
Novo Nordisk shares tumble as weight-loss drug trial data disappoints
Obesity drug CagriSema misses goal of 25% body weight reduction
Trump threatens tariffs if EU doesn’t buy more US oil and gas
US is the world’s largest producer of crude oil and the biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas
Setback for Trump as Republicans fail to pass spending Bill and shutdown looms
Thirty-eight Republicans vote against package, hastily assembled after the president-elect and Elon Musk scuttled a prior bipartisan deal
Ireland has won the corporation tax game for now, but will that last?
The upcoming Trump presidency presents a huge challenge to maintaining the State’s tax receipts
During this hard men era, Ireland would do well to remember Seán MacBride’s words
MacBride asked ‘if those vested with authority and power practice injustice, resort to torture and killing, is it not inevitable that those who are victims will react with similar methods?’
Ukraine should not be pushed to negotiating table too soon, says new EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas
EU summit: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia ‘not interested’ in peace
Georgia appeals court disqualifies prosecutor Fani Willis in Trump 2020 election case
Ruling throws into doubt future of case which includes US president-elect and 14 allies
Vladimir Putin claims war in Ukraine has made Russia ‘much stronger’
Moscow ‘ready for negotiations and compromises’ to end the fighting, Russian president says during carefully controlled press conference
EU summit: European leaders to send ‘clear signal’ on Ukraine support to Trump
Zelenskiy is invited to attend first part of Brussels talks, with threat of an EU-US trade war also set to dominate summit
To the French, Germans and even the Brits, Ireland is blessed with boring politics
Amid criticism of Ireland’s domestic politics making it hard for new ideas to break through, there’s something to be said for ‘same old, same old’
Joe Biden should pardon the 40 men on death row
If the outgoing US president decides not to act, the condemned men’s prospects are grim. Trump oversaw 13 federal executions during his final months in office
Gaza ceasefire talks gain momentum as most recent Israeli strikes kill 20 people
Palestinian official says mediators have narrowed gaps on most of agreement’s clauses and deal could be signed in coming days
Israel openly considers attack on Iran’s nuclear programme
Iran reported to be willing to permit inspections in bid to forestall attack
Trump loses bid to dismiss hush-money conviction on immunity grounds
Trump was convicted in May in case stemming from payment his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels
‘American men are a lot more self-centred. In Ireland they’re a lot easier to talk to. They’re very flirtatious’
Nadine Scully moved to Dublin from Seattle in 2017
US corporate tax changes could prove bigger threat to Ireland than tariffs
Incentives designed to bring back intellectual property or patents domicilled abroad could prove problematic for Ireland
Trump says Ukraine ‘needs to reach deal’ with Russia
Comments suggest US president-elect may push for a settlement that recognises Russian territorial gain
Why is Israel bombing Syria?
Attacks on arms centres, alleged chemical weapons facilities, and military air and sea resources are essentially defensive in nature, Israel claims
Podcasts of 2024: 10 of the best shows from the past year, from Keep It Tight to Who Trolled Amber?
The sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War, the true story of the Free Willy orca and a conspiracy theory surrounding Avril Lavigne also feature
Ireland’s tax wealth now in crosshairs of incoming Trump administration
The Government has never had it so good but that hasn’t gone unnoticed in Washington
Trump nominates construction executive Edward Walsh as US ambassador to Ireland
President-elect described Walsh as a ‘champion golfer’ and ‘great philanthropist’
Ireland surfed the wave of globalisation as long as we could. Here’s what we should do next
Donald Trump certainly poses a threat to the Irish economy but there is much the State can do to safeguard our economic welfare
Despite his attacks on the ‘fake news media’, Trump remains an avid, old-school news junkie
Second coming has swept a torrent of new doubts and insecurities through newsrooms
Google boggles minds as it says quantum chip ‘lends credence’ to the existence of a multiverse
Planet Business: Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell
Fall of the house of Assad: a dynasty built on the banality of evil
Decades of brutal dictatorship in Syria came to a remarkably swift end when Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow and opposition forces took control of Damascus
‘Watch your step’: Steve Coogan takes Patrick Freyne backstage at Dr Strangelove
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
Samantha Barry: ‘There’s not a moment where I’m not representing Glamour. I don’t get to switch it off’
As global executive editor of Glamour, the Cork woman is one of the best known media people in the United States
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