The European Union's foreign policy chief expressed doubt Saturday that member states could reach consensus on imposing sanctions against Israel, as EU foreign ministers gathered in Denmark's capital for an informal meeting on international (...)
Author Sally Rooney says she will continue to support Palestine Action, despite the group being proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.
The award-winning Irish novelist said she intends to use the earnings of her work and her public (...)
At least 100 Palestinians have been killed and more than 500 others injured over the past 24 hours as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza despite mounting international pressure and condemnation over its conduct of war.
Eyewitnesses reported (...)
Australia has announced a plan to recognize a Palestinian state in September, following similar moves by the UK, France and Canada.
Australia's leader Anthony Albanese said the move will happen at the UN General Assembly and after it had received (...)
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has surprised fans by playing a number of original songs and Irish tunes during a music and arts festival in Wexford town.
The hitmaker played alongside Irish bands Amble, BIIRD, Beoga and Aaron Rowe in the Sky and The (...)
EU diplomats on Monday failed to agree once again on a partial suspension of Israel from the Horizon Europe fund in response to the war in Gaza, several diplomats said.
Gathered online for their regular Mashreq/Maghreb Working Party and despite (...)
A European Commission proposal to deny Israel partial access to the EU's €95 billion Horizon Europe research fund failed to garner the necessary qualified majority support when EU ambassadors met in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the issue.
If (...)
A leading Israeli human rights group has accused Israel of "committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza," becoming the first such organization to make the claim.
B'Tselem said in a major report released on Monday that it came to that (...)
The EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas is set to offer an exhaustive list of 10 possibilities for the EU to respond to Israel's action in Gaza during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels this week, but EU diplomats told Euronews there's (...)
Political leaders in Lithuania were briefly directed to air raid shelters on Thursday after the alarm was raised over an airspace violation from Belarus, Lithuanian media reported.
Media reports stated that Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and (...)
Tens of thousands of passengers have been hit by a French air traffic control strike that has cancelled flights in France on Thursday and Friday and had a knock-on effect elsewhere in Europe.
Budget airline Ryanair said it had been forced to cancel (...)
Despite a report saying there are "indications" that Israel was in breach of its human rights obligations over its ongoing war in Gaza, European leaders could only agree at their council summit on Thursday to "continue discussions" on a follow-up to (...)
For the protesters waving Palestinian flags outside EU buildings in Brussels, it was the moment that everything might change.
An EU report presented to foreign ministers had found there were indications Israel had breached human rights obligations (...)
Pro-Palestinian activists in the UK have broken into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed two military planes with red paint in a major security breach.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has condemned the action as "disgraceful", saying that it was an "act of (...)
Israel is set to be one of the first countries targeted by a reform of the mechanism to suspend short-stay visa-free travel into the EU and Schengen countries agreed on Tuesday by the European Parliament and the Council according to European (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia, alongside France and a broad coalition of international partners, announced the suspension of the UN conference on Palestine, scheduled to be held at the UN headquarters in New York on June 17-20.
In a joint statement issued (...)
There was disorder in Northern Ireland for the fourth night in a row but at a lower level than seen earlier this week.
In Portadown, County Armagh, on Thursday a crowd pulled bricks and masonry from a derelict building which they threw at (...)
Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town, according to (...)
When 26-year-old Umar Sofi received his acceptance letter from Columbia University's School of Journalism, he thought the hardest part of his journey was over.
After trying for three years, Mr Sofi had finally been admitted to his dream university (...)
Spain has canceled a deal to purchase anti-tank missile systems that were to be manufactured in Madrid by a subsidiary of an Israeli company in a bid to move away from Israeli military technology, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
The decision (...)
An Irish man has died and a child has been injured in a shooting incident at a shopping center in County Carlow on Sunday.
Emergency services are currently at the scene at the Fairgreen Shopping Centre, with an army bomb disposal team also in (...)
Israel has said it rejects a decision by the European Union to review the bloc's wide-ranging trade and cooperation pact with the country over its intensified offensive in Gaza.
The EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stated on Tuesday that the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Ministry of Defense hosted the eighth meeting of the Chiefs of Staff of the Dragon Group member states in Riyadh on Sunday.
The Saudi Chief of the General Staff Gen. Fayyadh Al-Ruwaili inaugurated the meeting, which discussed topics (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France plans to recognize Palestine as a state in June this year.
Macron made the comments during an interview with a French television station while on a two-day trip to Egypt.
"Our goal is, (...)
