Donald Trump

UN secretary general António Guterres has said 'there is no military solution' to the crisis in the Middle East

US naval blockade on Iranian ports continues as Israel and Lebanon hold separate peace negotiations in Washington

Have your holiday plans been impacted by travel turmoil, events in the United States or sharply rising fuel prices?

Ancient Order of Hibernians says US president’s criticism of Pope Leo and AI-generated image has ‘deeply offended’ Catholics

Just back from fruitless negotiations with Iran, the US vice-president found himself having to address a fraught new episode in the uneasy relationship between church and state in America

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

Fuel protests have seen big wheels driven over democratic norms

World leaders show very different kinds of qualities and abilities

US president called media mogul personally to try prevent publication of report he sent ‘bawdy’ email to Jeffrey Epstein

Iranian ships will be ‘eliminated’ if they come close to blockade, says US president

Tehran taunts US over rising petrol price as blockade of Strait of Hormuz takes effect

Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors set to begin peace talks while fighting continues between Israel and Tehran-backed Hizbullah

The US president’s conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’

Even with the latest excise cut, motorists will still be much worse off than they were six weeks ago

US president’s original war aims included Iran’s unconditional surrender, regime change, elimination of its nuclear potential and ‘obliterating’ Iran’s missiles

Such a move presents different challenges and dilemma from what the US did in the case of Venezuela

Pontiff said he will ‘continue to speak out loudly against war’

Inside Politics: Government defends plans as ‘most generous in EU’ while Opposition and protesters dismiss measures as insufficient

US president praises 36-year-old’s second consecutive victory at Augusta

Trump takes credit for rise to papacy of Leo, one of the world’s most powerful critics of the US war with Iran

Move could cut global crude supply by 2 million barrels

A friend reminded me of a four-word letter to The Irish Times Gabriel Rosenstock wrote in 2007, when US troops were pouring into Iraq: ‘Cúrsaí ola, cúrsaí fola’

Let’s start our journey into the mind of the Trump administration with a blue fish

Cheng Li-wun, head of Taiwan’s KMT party, met Chinese president Xi Jinping

Peter Magyar’s Tisza party projected to win 138 out of 199 seats, a two-thirds majority that would enable it to change the constitution

US president says aim of move is to place chokehold on Tehran’s access to oil revenues

The US first lady’s shock statement last week took everybody – including Trump – by surprise, but what was behind it?

Fear of being drawn into prolonged negotiations with Iran is palpable

Stocks are profiting from the extinguishing of fires that didn’t need to be lit

Easy Rider director was so taken with Taos that he became its most notorious resident during the 1970s and its most feted retiree in the last years of his life

Worldview: European elites are ill-prepared for this scale of change in their relations with the US

Trump claims US has begun clearing mines in strait of Hormuz

JD Vance, a vocal opponent of US wars in the Middle East, has gone quiet since the beginning of the current military campaign

Donald Trump previously criticised the plan telling Starmer he was 'making a big mistake'

We can see that Nato is in disarray

There are some grounds for cautious optimism

Here it is, Mr President: a simplified guide on how to sell a war to faithful followers, having told them up to now you would not launch one

Vodafone soars more than 80% from near 30-year low last April to about £1.18

The most valuable disseminators of the US president’s message have turned on him

Foo Fighters frontman on tracking phases of his life through albums, reflecting on the band’s early days and what their future might look like