Clock ticks for Angela Merkel on pan-EU migration deal

Chancellor seeks Europe-wide solution to crisis but may be forced to take local action

Davos 2016: Refugee crisis ‘biggest ever test’ for EU

German president warns that limit on arrivals in Germany will be introduced

Breda O’Brien: Could Ireland become the fairest little country for migrants?

Images from ‘Children of Men’ are eerily similar to current television news broadcasts, down to the cages and the barbed wire

British marine convicted of murdering Afghan insurgent

Soldier shot Afghan national in chest before quoting phrase from Shakespeare at him

British government trying to distance itself from North’s past - MP

Families of Ballymurphy victims seeking Hillsborough-style inquiry

Australia troops investigated over Taliban corpse mutilation

Hands said to have been cut from dead militant and taken for identification

A dangerous escalation

A bombing campaign against Syria could have incalculable consequences

Opinion: Does the West want regime change to put Islamists in power in Damascus?

Snowden asylum request deserves latitude, says Daly

Taoiseach urged to use creativity to allow US whistleblower to access Republic