Paraic O'Brien , Foreign Affairs Correspondent

The place thought most likely to face a by-election as a result of the expenses investigations is South Thanet, where the Tories went all out during the 2015 general election to deny UKIP leader Nigel Farage a seat in parliament. Craig Mackinlay, the man who did win South Thanet for the Conservatives, has been questioned…

The Brexit secretary David Davies has urged Parliament to pass the bill triggering the Article 50 process to take Britain out of the EU with ‘no strings attached’. MPs are due to vote within days. Mr Davis insisted there was a contingency plan in place if Britain ended up leaving the bloc without a trade…

Up to 20 million people are at risk from famine in parts of the Middle East and Africa: the world stands at a critical moment in history.

After a major political shock in Northern Ireland’s assembly elections, fraught negotiations are under way to form an administration.

Jeremy Corbyn has told his party faithful “it’s not the time to run away” – but as the recriminations over Labour’s Copeland by election defeat mount up, there are plenty within his own ranks who wish he’d do just that. And even his own supporters seem reluctant to rally round.

He said banning media outlets was what distinguishes a democracy from a dictatorship but yesterday White House press secretary Sean Spicer refused to allow a range of news organisations into his background briefing from the BBC to the New York Times. It’s provoked an inevitable outrage but should the media allow itself to be dragged into…

Scores of people have been arrested as violent protests spread across France. They were sparked by allegations that a young black man was raped by a police officer earlier this month.

YouTube has downgraded its biggest star after after he posted videos with anti-Semitic content.

Across the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, with their significant populations of ethnic Russians, numerous web-based portals have sprung up, pumping out what activist is say is Russian propaganda, funded by Moscow.

President Trump has previously described Nato as “obsolete” and talked of closer ties with the Kremlin. Paraic O’Brien is in the Latvian capital Riga.

Former Argos security guard Adama Barrow won the Gambian elections fair and square but the man he replaced is refusing to leave, so he’s been sworn in at the embassy in Senegal.

Just hours before his briefing by the US intelligence agencies on the hacking of Democrat email accounts, Donald Trump called the claims a “political witch-hunt”.

The heads of America’s intelligence agencies versus the man about to become their commander in chief. According to Donald Trump he hasn’t seen any evidence that Russia interfered in the US election. Putting him at odds with intelligence chiefs and leading members of his own party, like Senator John McCain, who called Russian hacking “an…

The Amish of America famously shun television, cars, mobile phones, glitz, glamour or any hint of celebrity. So how come so many of them like the embodiment of all the above – President-elect Trump?

It’s less than a month now before climate change sceptic Donald Trump takes over the White House.He won the US presidential election partly on a platform of using more fossil fuels with fewer environmental rules. Now President Obama has announced climate protections which his successor might not be able to reverse.