Diplomacy & Crisis News

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UN independent human rights experts appealed on Thursday for authorities in Egypt to remove two activists from a “terrorist” list and to stop systemic use of terrorism powers. 

The African Continental Free Trade Area is already running up against the hard realities of the continent’s endemic trade barriers.

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The administration is moving quickly to reassert U.S. leadership but needs Beijing’s support for major initiatives.

The new president wants his strategy to seem reassuring. It’s anything but.

The 1994 Ethiopian Constitution celebrated self-determination, but it laid the groundwork for today’s violence. Devolution could offer a way out.

Myanmar’s generals have proven they can survive sanctions. But sustained public pressure may be harder to endure.

Women are extremely under-represented in science, but a UN research centre in The Netherlands is trying to address the gender imbalance, by raising awareness of the leading role that women researchers play in tackling global problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Led by student activists, the new civil-disobedience movement draws on the experience of older generations—but its methods and demands are a radical break with the past.

The World Health Organization team that spent weeks in Wuhan ended up giving Chinese authorities a propaganda victory.

The State Department sides with President Jovenel Moïse on when his term should end.

The acquittal of Daniel Pearl’s abductors came at the worst possible time.

Closed labs and increased care responsibilities are just a two of the challenges women in scientific fields are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said in his message for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on Thursday. 

Biden’s nominee to be U.S. trade representative is admired on both sides of the aisle, but she faces some of the toughest conditions ever when it comes to winning over the rest of the world.

Just-banned app Clubhouse offered a rare chance to mess around freely online.

Conservative decisions and an aging leadership don’t bode well.

A deluge of online conspiracy theories is dividing an already polarized country.

Economists must rethink their models in the age of cheap money.

Some policies may be worth keeping, but Trump’s handling of allies and withdrawals from conflict zones are not among them.