The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the US State Department that would eliminate more than 100 offices, including some working on war crimes and rights advocacy, to ensure the agency is in line with Donald Trump&s &America First& priorities.

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble.

Donald Trump is not known for his subtlety - and there has been nothing subtle about his approach to Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

An Irish-born Palestinian man hopes Taoiseach Micheál Martin will ask the Palestinian president to let his father leave Gaza after a damaged passport kept him there.