Diplomacy & Crisis News

The world began to ripple to darkness on Saturday as countries globally dimmed their lights at 8:30 pm local time for Earth Hour – an event that, according to the UN, encourages individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights, for one hour.

Coastal cities need to experiment with different strategies to boost resilience.

Whether you support Xi or Trump, sneering at progressives is a shared hobby.

The UN  is scaling up its efforts to help Nepal, which faces numerous natural threats, to become more resilient, minimize human casualties and preserve livelihoods.

War, a humanitarian crisis, a looming famine, a health system close to collapse and the deepening impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a “catastrophic situation” in which a woman dies in childbirth every two hours in Yemen, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

The United States needs a game plan for a continent that’s home to two-thirds of the world’s population and its biggest rival.

“COVAX works” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, informing journalists that the UN-backed vaccine initiative has distributed more than 32 million vaccines to 61 countries in just one month.  

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

Republican districts stand to benefit most from the economic windfall that a revived JCPOA would bring.

Americans have to learn to see promise, not threat, ahead again.

Two new books examine how an isolated state managed to expand its diplomatic horizons.

Since they were labeled an extremist group in 2017, more than 400 have been charged or convicted.

Biden’s push for gender equality is a huge change from Trump, but experts stop short of calling it a feminist foreign policy.

How the German government accelerated the 20th century’s economic march toward neoliberalism.

L'élargissement de plusieurs dirigeants du Front islamique du salut (FIS) dont MM. Abassi Madani et Ali Benhadj, le mardi 13 septembre, marque un tournant dans la crise algérienne. Cette libération, résultat de plusieurs mois de tractations et de contacts secrets entre le président Liamine Zeroual (...) / Algérie, Conflit, Politique, Société, Terrorisme, Violence, Peuples autochtones - 1994/10

An Oscar-nominated film exposes the crimes of Srebrenica at a time when the perpetrators are still celebrated in Serbia and beyond.

If Twitter doesn’t remove content Putin dislikes, he’ll ban it. But that will hurt him more than the platform.

The military in Myanmar has turned on citizens and is putting the nation’s future at risk, the UN Special Envoy for the country warned on Friday in a statement issued on the eve of the annual celebration of Armed Forces Day. 

The Biden administration rebuffed European pleas to lift some sanctions in its first weeks in office.

A new study released on Friday by the UN cultural agency, reveals that more than 100 million more children than expected, are falling behind the minimum proficiency level in reading, due to COVID-related school closures.