Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged citizens around the world to take to the streets to stop Russia's invasion of his country.

North Korea fired what is thought to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the sea off its east coast today, militaries in South Korea and Japan said.

As stories of death and destruction continue to unfold in Ukraine, the question now is will Putin and other Russian leaders be held accountable, and for what crimes?

Nominations for the election of a new Labour Party leader will close at midday today.

Britain's Prince Charles, and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will make a number of public appearances in Co Waterford today.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has told Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate his country wants to be "independent" and address "unresolved" issues

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is to hold a protest outside the Russian embassy in Dublin today to mark one month since the invasion of Ukraine.

Chinese search and rescue in southern Guangxi region today found part of an engine belonging to a China Eastern Airlines jet that crashed three days ago, state television reported.

Singapore will lift restrictions for all vaccinated travellers from next week, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today hailing it as a "major milestone" in the aviation hub's efforts to live with Covid-19.

Consumer sentiment plummeted in March, according to KBC Bank Ireland, in what was the biggest month-on-month drop in confidence since the onset of the pandemic.

Ireland has among the highest rates of dependency on imported sources of energy in Europe, although dependency has declined in recent years.

The Chief Medical Officer and public health advisers do not see the need for new restrictions to deal with the surge in Covid cases, the Tánaiste told a party meeting tonight.

A 27-year-old man has appeared in court in Dublin charged in connection with the fatal shooting of his sister Sandra Boyd.

The Taoiseach will attend a meeting of the European Council in Brussels tomorrow which will discuss Russian military aggression against Ukraine, security and defence, energy, economic issues, Covid-19 and external relations.

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female US secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, has died at the age of 84, her family ...

A new era of accountability in local government was promised ten years ago, but has yet to be delivered.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has asked Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for "special treatment" to allow border crossings to continue uninterrupted.

As Ukraine's president continues to appeal for support for his country's war effort, Western leaders are gathering in Brussels ahead of key summits of the G7, NATO and the EU

Ukrainian forces have pushed back Russian troops in several areas around Kyiv, city mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, vowing to defend every building rather than surrender the capital.