But they expressed some openness to delaying sentencing until after the US President-elect’s impending second term.

The Taoiseach has branded as chilling a manifesto pledge from Sinn Fein to commission a review of RTE’s objectivity in its coverage of international conflicts. Mr Harris said the proposed examination ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons on Tuesday, a move ...

Croatia will hold a presidential election on December 29, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has announced. Authorities are yet to formally set the vote. If no candidate wins an outright majority on ...

Many farmers protesting over changes to inheritance tax are “wrong” about the policy, the Environment Secretary has said. Steve Reed rejected claims that the Government has underestimated how many ...

Tim Roca, the Labour MP for Macclesfield, tabled the adjournment debate and urged authorities in the UAE to free Mr Cornelius “as a gesture of friendship”. He described the case as “the arbitrary ...

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Howard Lutnick, head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and a cryptocurrency enthusiast, as his nominee for commerce secretary. The position is ...

Eric Trump made the comments in an interview with the PA news agency at the Trump International Golf Links in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.

The Competition and Markets Authority said a provisional investigation found the link between the two companies did not meet the merger threshold.

The Kremlin updated its weapons doctrine so that any large conventional attack on Moscow could meet the criteria for a nuclear response.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said the Government estimates did not account for measures to mitigate the impact.

A senior doctor has told a public inquiry it is “likely” that nurse Lucy Letby murdered or assaulted children at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit before June 2015.