Diplomacy & Crisis News

The UN Deputy Secretary-General is on a two-week solidarity visit to West Africa and the Sahel to underscore the Organization’s support to countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Senior UN officials have offered their congratulations to the president-elect of the United States Joe Biden, and vice president-elect Kamala Harris, on their election victory called on Saturday.

A new administration points to a resolution of some thorny bilateral disputes—but could threaten Moon Jae-in’s cherished rapprochement with the North.

Preoccupied with domestic challenges and an impending contest with a populist rival, France’s government will benefit from the defeat of the far-right across the Atlantic.

U.S. defense cooperation with India is one thing Democratic and Republican administrations agree on.

In the 1990s, the Azerbaijani population was expelled. Now Armenians could face the same fate.

Bolsonaro needs Trumpism to rally his base, but he might need Biden’s America even more.

An indigenous form of Islam developed within the West—rather than influenced by leaders from abroad—is the path to integration and peaceful coexistence.

The abrupt news after Trump’s electoral defeat follows months of tensions between the U.S. president and his secretary of defense.

Talks to draw up a blueprint for a new political era in Libya began in Tunisia on Monday, following a peace deal struck by Libya’s warring sides last month.  

Hundreds of billions of dollars are ready to flow into U.S. tech—if both sides can agree where.

Although more Governments and businesses are committing to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the world is still falling far short of that goal, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday in his latest push for a cleaner, greener future. 

The only way to fight the COVID-19 crisis is to make affordable vaccines available to everyone, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday, underscoring that in an interconnected and interdependent world, “no one is secure until all of us are secure”. 

Biden will inherit a tax system rigged to deepen inequality. He’ll need corporate America’s help to fix it.

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Trump was a much weaker potential autocrat than others have faced.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told Member States on Monday that efforts to tackle climate change and poverty had been set back by a lack of global unity since major agreements were struck five years ago, and welcomed the chance to work with the presumptive new US administration of president-elect Joe Biden.

Trump is still president for the next 71 days. And he has begun making it harder for a President Biden to undo his Iran policies.

The United Nations and humanitarian partners in the Philippines launched, on Monday, a response plan for $45.5 million to bring life-saving assistance and protection to hundreds of thousands of people affected by Typhoon Goni. 

From Cairo to Riyadh, autocrats are nervous about what a Biden administration might mean for their relationship with Washington.