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The US President says his top priority is to ‘keep the peace’

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden departed Tuesday for a trip to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and to visit his ancestral homeland.

The US President will touch down in Air Force One in Belfast later on Tuesday

The leak of highly sensitive US documents – many of them related to the Ukraine conflict – presents a "very serious" risk to US national security, the Pentagon said Monday. The breach is being investigated by the Justice Department and appears to include secret information on the war in Ukraine…

Minecraft, the world's most popular game, played an unlikely role in the reported leak of classified US documents.

Senior leaders are quickly taking steps to mitigate the damage caused by the documents being leaked online, a top Pentagon spokesman says.

White House national security spokesman says it remains unknown if document leak has been contained as probe continues.

Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron over Europe’s priorities on Taiwan have raised questions over the EU’s relationship with both the U.S. and China, on the eve of his planned speech on the bloc’s sovereignty in The Netherlands.

The 46th US president – a proud Irish-American – will visit Belfast to celebrate a quarter-century of peace under the Good Friday Agreement before travelling to Ireland, Andrew Feinberg writes