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GARDAÍ HAVE SAID they are working with a number of protest groups in order to minimise disruptions at Shannon Airport during the brief visit of US president Donald Trump to Co Clare. Trump is due to spend two nights at his Doonbeg resort before returning to …

It is now three decades since tank man unwittingly created one of the great images of the late twentieth century, one that might, for once, be fairly labelled iconic, by standing in protest in Tiananmen Square, carrier bags in hand, ready to die for liberty. …

By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) - Under a wooden arch decorated with white balloons in a small house in Caracas' largest slum, the body of 11-year-old Erick Altuve lay in a small coffin covered in cuddly toys and cartoon drawings, one of four children wh…

American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military interventions than it can reasonably handle, the Trump team recently picked a new fight — in Latin America. Thats right! Uncle Sam kicked off a sequel t…

This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean that were published in the past week. Pro-choice activists carry a statue of the Virgin Mary featuring a green handkerchief sy…

Sanctions are a violent tool of U.S. control. And now this tool is in Trump’s hands.Regardless of their devastating results, the use of sanctions against unruly countries is a frequent U.S. foreign policy tactic, often posed as the only alternative to an inva…

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“Whatever is discussed in there, whatever is decided, has absolutely no legitimacy because it is an illegitimate regime presiding over that body,” US ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament (CD) Robert Wood told reporters Tuesday after he stormed out of t…

The United States walked out of a United Nations Conference on Disarmament Tuesday to protest Venezuela chairing the session, Reuters reported. We have to try to do what we can to prevent these types of states from presiding over international bodies, Robert…

GENEVA  The U.S. ambassador to the U.N.'s main disarmament body has walked out of its current session in Geneva to protest that Venezuela has taken the chair. Robert Wood insisted "a rogue state" was taking over, shortly after Venezuelan Ambassador Jorge Val…