Irish lawmakers have met to appoint a new prime minister, but quickly abandoned the attempt amid bitter wrangling over ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Veteran politician Micheál Martin is set to become Ireland’s prime minister for a second time on Wednesday when ...

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 ...

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 ...

+ Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Candace King Weir, the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism, the Leila ...

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

And, Michel, he says Catholics should ... Mary and Joseph had to flee out of Israel into Egypt because of oppression. They were refugees. MARTIN: Jason, remind us what he's referencing there.

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.