Irish lawmakers have voted to make veteran politician Micheál Martin prime minister for a second time at the helm of a coalition government ...

Micheál Martin was elected Irish prime minister for the second time by a coalition of the country's two large centre-right ...

Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., joins NPR's Michel Martin to discuss Israel's security cabinet approving a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. The agreement still needs the full ...

Israel's security cabinet voted to approve a ceasefire deal to end the fighting in Gaza. Full cabinet approval is expected later Friday, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Amos Hochstein, senior adviser to President Biden, about the latest ceasefire deal in Gaza and ...

Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a multiphase ceasefire that commits them to end the war in Gaza.

Tanáiste Micheál Martin has congratulated the people of Lebanon on electing Joseph Aoun as head of state. Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun, filling a more than ...

Michel M.J. Shore is a retired judge of the Federal Court of Canada and recently made a home in Israel. He is the writer of several published books and poetry collections.

The Presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian in the country's sectarian power-sharing system and has been vacant since Michel Aoun's ... landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah ...

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Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C. McElroy has been a harsh critic of ...

Gaza’s population dropped by 6% – about 160,000 people – in 2024, according to a new report, as Israel’s war against Hamas took a heavy toll on the Palestinian enclave’s demographics.