Diplomacy & Crisis News

Au cœur des Aurès, Batna est une ville soumise à l'état d'urgence comme l'ensemble de l'Algérie, prise dans le vertige des peurs et des frustrations. Murs d'incompréhension et violences, angoisse du chômage et dégradation des conditions d'existence révèlent une société accablée par le poids des (...) / Algérie, Société - 1993/03

“Urgent and sustained funding” for a Government-led response to what is now a “massive and protracted” humanitarian crisis across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is required, said the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN relief chief on Thursday.

The main schools of thought still cling to an outdated understanding of how civilizations work.

New missiles and large-scale exercises part of long-term strategy to deter Beijing.

States must take urgent action, to “stem the tide of hate and discrimination” and ramping up of “ethno-nationalist populism”, which helped fuel the deadly shootings in two New Zealand mosques last Friday by a self-declared white supremacist, several top UN officials and human rights experts have stressed, marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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Dire conditions persist in vast areas of southern Africa affected by Cyclone Idai as heavy rain continues to cause “massive destruction”, the UN said on Thursday, while aid teams scale up efforts to reach those most in need.

Celebrities’ crimes are pushing South Korea’s reckoning with misogyny.

If you want to stop terrorists like New Zealand’s mosque shooter, the first step is to try to understand what they’re saying.

If Britain remains in the European Union due to a botched Brexit, its demands for special treatment will end up wrecking the EU.

The Fall Armyworm pest is continuing to sweep across the globe, having moved eastwards from their native Americas, onto Africa, before arriving in Asia only last summer, where they now threaten to cost farmers from India to Thailand, billions of dollars in lost production. 

A new space race may be on, but the United States should opt for peaceful exploration rather than military presence.

Expressing deep concern at the “magnitude and gravity of the human rights impact” of Venezuela’s current crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Wednesday that the country had become “a worrying destabilizing factor in the region.”

A United Nations appeals court on Wednesday increased the 40-year sentence initially imposed on Radovan Karadžić, former leader of the Republika Srpksa region of Bosnia and head of the Bosnian-Serb Army, to life imprisonment.

Joe Biden is the only candidate for the White House with a foreign-policy philosophy that’s proven to work.

Pro-Iran factions are pushing for the move just as the Islamic State is starting to hit back.

Predicting that the “days ahead will prove foundational to the years ahead for Libyans and the region”, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, that it was no exaggeration to describe the oil-rich nation as having reached “a crucial juncture”.

The Trump administration says countering Beijing’s cyber and commercial power should be a priority for the alliance.

Telle qu'elle est définie et programmée dans le traité de Maastricht, l'Union économique et monétaire (UEM) est avant tout l'expression d'un choix politique en faveur d'une complète intégration européenne. Ce choix intervient à un moment où les contraintes économiques au sein des Douze semblent rendre (...) / Intégration régionale, Monnaie - 1992/09

In its trade standoff with the United States, China’s Ace could be the 737 Max.