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Mediator Pakistan says both sides ‘keep changing their goalposts’ and ‘we don’t have much time’

Further strikes by Israel against Hizbullah hit southern Lebanon despite extension of US-brokered ceasefire

Irish detainees preparing to go on hunger strike, says activist shortly before capture

Officials advised developing world could face ‘significant food shortages and price increases’ before year’s end

A chance discovery ends in death and exposes covert Israeli operations deep inside Iraqi territory

Drone strike causes fire at UAE nuclear power plant as efforts to end war in Gulf stall

Boos, boycotts and tensions over Israel overshadow the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, in Vienna

Israel comes second after large number of votes from viewers at home

Israeli forces continue strikes on southern Lebanon after six people, including three paramedics, killed on Friday

As Boy George said: ‘If you don’t know any Jewish people, maybe that’s the problem.’

Justice and a state for the Palestinian people of Israel/Palestine will probably only be achieved by outside pressure

There is a double standard

Technology is being deployed by Irish military to detect threats to key underwater cables and monitor Russian ‘shadow-fleet’ vessels

Admiral Brad Cooper said a strike on an Iranian school may have been the only civilian casualty incident of the war

At least 50 injured with women and child among dead after in air strikes on apartment and vehicle in Palestinian enclave

There will be no ‘hello from Dublin’, no Irish televote and no broadcast on Irish television

Noel Curran says European Broadcasting Union engaging ‘proactively’ to get boycott members back in future song contests

Words are no longer enough

Only 35 countries competing this year with Ireland among nations not taking part due to Israel’s involvement

Richard Boyd Barrett introduces Bill to sanction Israel, break off ‘all economic trade, financial relations’

We could choose how the show goes on

PantiBar owner says decision to stop screening contest is validated by Israel’s attempt to use it as ‘propaganda tool’

Increase in attacks on ​enclave further sign of stalled progress under Trump’s plan to halt Israel-Hamas war

A key ultra‑Orthodox ally has abandoned Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, collapsing the coalition’s majority amid a row over military exemptions

The FAI should refuse to play fixtures against Israel until Fifa and Uefa apply the same standards they applied elsewhere

Irish tradition of supporting sporting boycotts on moral grounds

Noam Bettan will compete on Saturday night in the boycott-hit 70th year of the song contest, held in Vienna

Iran signals continued resolve in face of US pressure

US president says while the ceasefire remains in place it is ‘unbelievably weak’

It is an unprecedented moment in the Eurovision Song Contest’s history, and this year’s competition could have long-term consequences

Binyamin Netanyahu’s government has embraced the hugely popular song contest as a soft power tool

Tehran’s response to Washington’s proposal ‘unacceptable’ and ‘stupid’, says US president

EU foreign ministers agree to issue new sanctions targeting some Israeli settlers in the ​West Bank

Tensions and disunity haunt the song contest as it marks its 70th anniversary in Vienna

Breakthrough sees blacklist imposed on violent settlers for first time in nearly two years

There is a neat symmetry to Carter’s story and to his hometown’s quietly glowing presence in the US

Defence lawyers argue the panel led by Kathrin Eichstädt is an impediment to a fair trial

Inconsistency between Government reluctance to formally acknowledge Armenian genocide and clear stance on Gaza

Marwan Barghouti retains broad support among fractured Palestinian factions, and calls for his release have become louder

Hostile drones detected over several Gulf countries as further strikes launched by Israel on southern Lebanon