A University of Galway academic has been appointed to a major UN role in a historic moment for Ireland this week. Charles Spillane has been appointed Chief Scientist of the Food and Agriculture ...

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness ...

A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts ...