Passengers arriving from Britain are being advised by the Government to undertake daily antigen tests for five consecutive days, beginning on the day of arrival.

Fifty-four people were killed when the truck they were in flipped over in southern Mexico, in one of the worst accidents involving migrants who risk their lives to reach the United States.

An Environmental Protection Agency study has found 96% of people believe climate change is real, while 90% believe the country has a responsibility to act on climate change.

The National Women's Council has called on the Government to make one department responsible for and accountable to tackling gender-based violence.

The Conservatives have lost their poll lead over the opposition Labour Party after revelations about alleged lockdown parties at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's residence provoked an outcry over hypocrisy.

Two judges in London are expected to rule on a US government appeal against a decision not to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Britain.

Britain tried to isolate France in a dispute over post-Brexit fishing licences, but the bloc stood united, France's junior European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune has said.

The Slovak government has allowed shops, ski resorts and churches to reopen to those who are vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19, despite having the highest infection rate in the world.

A US federal appeals court has rejected former president Donald Trump's bid to prevent the release of White House records relating to the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.

Australia battled twin natural disasters, with bushfires cutting through a picturesque west coast region, while serious flooding and heavy rains lashed the country's east.

Six cases of Omicron have now been identified in Ireland. But what is it like to have the new variant? Philip Gallagher has been talking to two people who've been through it.

Employers should give serious consideration to employing people seeking asylum in Ireland to work in their businesses, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission has claimed.

Actor Jussie Smollett, the one-time star of the TV drama "Empire," has been found guilty of staging a hate crime against himself in what US prosecutors said was a bid to gain sympathy and bolster his career.

Five further cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in Ireland, bringing the total number here to six, as the Department of Health has reported 4,022 new coronavirus cases.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the conflict in eastern Ukraine between Kiev's army and pro-Russian separatists "looks like genocide", at a time of heightened tensions with the West.

The Conservative government in the UK "doesn't give a damn" about Ireland, which is once again "facing collateral damage" from Brexit, according to Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty.

Irish jockey Robbie Dunne has been banned for 18 months - with three months suspended - after a disciplinary panel of the British Horseracing Authority ruled he had bullied and harassed fellow rider Bryony Frost.

China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population, a London panel investigating alleged human rights abuses concluded today.

A photo that appears to show Ghislaine Maxwell and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein relaxing at a log cabin on the Queen Elizabeth's Balmoral estate in Scotland has been released as part of the socialite's sex trafficking trial.