Diplomacy & Crisis News

As the world enters the threshold of the century’s third decade, it continues to face “emerging and unprecedented challenges”, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, told the opening session of the UN High-level General Debate on Tuesday.

The assaults by security forces in Myanmar on villages in Rakhine state “need to stop”, and a ceasefire should be declared immediately, said the UN independent rights expert on the situation across the country on Tuesday.

A solid blue state is closer to being in play this year—galvanizing Somali Americans in an election they call “do or die.”

While every country has its own strategy to fight coronavirus, the world needs coordinated international efforts and a common purpose to end the crisis, the President of the Philippines said on Tuesday, underlining the importance of universal access to anti-COVID-19 technologies in the recovery from global pandemic. 

The Chinese President Xi Jinping called for enhanced international solidarity to fight the coronavirus on Tuesday during his UN General Assembly address, declaring that his country would aim to become carbon neutral, in the wider battle against climate change, by 2060. 

Speaking on the first day of the UN High-level General Debate, the President of Turkey stressed the need to “accurately and sincerely evaluate” what is happening in the world today.

U.S. political parties have reshuffled every few decades, and 2020 may be the year they do it again.

Qui se fait du libéralisme l'image donnée par les libéraux va au-devant de rudes surprises en lisant ce maître livre de Domenico Losurdo, où d'entrée apparaît un extraordinaire paradoxe. / États-Unis, France, Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni, Colonialisme, Histoire, Idées, Amérindiens, Inégalités, Libéralisme, (...) / États-Unis, France, Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni, Colonialisme, Histoire, Idées, Amérindiens, Inégalités, Libéralisme, Racisme, Religion, Esclavage - 2013/06

Faced with a global pandemic that has infected millions, killed thousands, forced borders to close, upended economies, and drastically changed lives, the world today needs the United Nations today as much as it did 75 years ago, the President of Cuba underlined on Tuesday. 

For decades, U.S. strategists were thinking short-term. Its leaders should start taking an infinite perspective.

U.S. diplomacy is badly broken, but it is not beyond repair. It must be reinvented for a new era.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has highlighted social and economic measures his administration implemented, to address the COVID-19 pandemic and what he views as the politicization of the virus in South America’s largest country. 

The COVID-19 pandemic may have prevented world leaders coming to New York to address the General Assembly in person, but the president of the world body stressed on Tuesday that the need for deliberation, is “higher than ever”.

Speaking on Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump lauded the military power of his country, which, he said, demonstrates that the country is “fulfilling its destiny as peacemaker, but it is peace through strength”.

Au Sénégal comme dans toute l'Afrique, l'âge est tabou. Jamais on ne le demande. Sont donc considérés comme vieux ceux qui en ont l'apparence. Symboles de la sagesse, ils sont respectés par leurs enfants. Mais, avec l'urbanisation, les liens se modifient. L'écrivaine sénégalaise Mariama Ndoye, (...) / Afrique, Sénégal, Islam, Jeunes, Religion, Santé, Société, Travail, Retraites - 2013/06

The militant group mines almost half a billion dollars a year from Afghan soil—and wants more.

In his centerpiece address to the historic and unprecedented 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and again call for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, by the end of the year. 

The continent's pop culture market is booming, just as U.S.-Chinese competition is heating up.

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How not to evaluate American grand strategy.