Diplomacy & Crisis News

FIFA chief Sepp Blatter doesn't seem very concerned about the bribery investigation that could knock him from the top of world sport.

In Brussels today, where he was addressing the European Parliament, the United Nations Secretary-General today the important role played by the European Union in boosting the UN agenda, particularly on matters of peace, development and human rights.

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict has condemned Boko Haram militias in Nigeria for “waging war on women’s physical, sexual and reproductive autonomy and rights” by repeatedly raping their female captors and treating them as vessels for producing children for fighters.

A Defense Department laboratory in Utah inadvertently sent a live anthrax sample to a civilian laboratory in Maryland this week, military officials disclosed on Wednesday. The live anthrax had been irradiated at the Utah facility and was presumed to have been neutralized, but an investigation is ongoing as to how the military’s supposedly stringent testing ...

Deeply concerned by the frequency of acts of violence in many parts of the world against media professionals in armed conflict, the United Nations Security Council today adopted a resolution condemning all violations and abuses committed against journalists and strongly deploring impunity for such acts.

Less than 24 hours after U.S. and Swiss authorities unveiled a sweeping investigation into corruption at the highest ranks of FIFA, including how the 2018 World Cup was awarded to Russia, Moscow is hitting back.

In a hostile world, Pakistani minorities face many threats; each new atrocity brings with it reams of analysis and no shortage of finger pointing towards the perceived culprits. But general public opinion might be just as much to blame as terrorism.

The United States is taking aim at future World Cups in Russia and Qatar.

The Syrian regime is gearing up for a counteroffensive that relies on Iran’s money and Shiite foreign fighters from as far away as Central Asia to push back against the Islamic State.

The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that the “unnecessary loss of innocent lives cannot go on” and spotlighted the increasingly dire medical situation in Yemen, where it says the health and lives of millions of people are at risk, and health facilities, staff and patients are under attack in widespread violations of international humanitarian law.

It’s a safe bet that neither Cy Tokmakjian or Stephen Purvis will be attending a Brookings Institution event next week on doing business in Cuba. Canadian and British businessmen, respectively, they each suffered through Kafkaesque ordeals in Cuba after they did just that, somehow running afoul of some regulation in Cuba’s opaque and arbitrary judicial system. After being imprisoned for months ...

As corruption indictments swirl, soccer’s governing body prepares for a vote of confidence in its CEO.

Life in the People's Republic can be trying -- but for a young American, it's also transformative. FP surveys a rising generation of cross-cultural natives.

“Many times the Vietnam was called a ten-year war fought one year at a time.... which actually wasn't true though most service members rotated through one year at a time. Units remained and had members who had served different lengths of time, with those with longest service in country able to pass on lessons learned to those just arriving. Afghanistan and Iraq, unlike Vietnam truly were long wars fought one year at a time.”

"That China is one of the world’s four Great Powers is an absolute farce. I have told the President I would be reasonably polite about this American obsession.”

En 1917, l'empire des Romanov s'est effondré sur lui-même, mais certains voient dans la révolution d'Octobre le résultat d'une cabale ourdie par des forces occultes aspirant à la mort de la Russie d'ancien régime. / Allemagne, Russie, Armée, Communisme, Conflit, Désinformation, Histoire, Idées, Parti (...) / Allemagne, Russie, Armée, Communisme, Conflit, Désinformation, Histoire, Idées, Parti politique, Personnalités, Politique, Presse, Révolution russe 1917, Monarchie - 2015/06

S'ils parviennent à empêcher une nouvelle partition de l'Ukraine, les seconds accords de Minsk, si fragiles et ambigus soient-ils, pourraient offrir une chance ultime de rénovation de l'ordre européen, en jetant les bases d'un modus vivendi avec la Russie. / Allemagne, États-Unis (affaires (...) / Allemagne, États-Unis (affaires extérieures), Europe, Europe de l'Est, France, Géorgie, Russie, Ukraine, Conflit, Géopolitique, Relations internationales, Biélorussie, Moldavie, Diplomatie, Guerre civile, Frontières - 2015/06

The number of the world&#39s chronically undernourished has dropped below the 800 million mark as an increasing number of countries hit their Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets on hunger, according to a new United Nations report released today by the Organization&#39s three food agencies.

The United Nations entity dedicated to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women announced today a partnership with Valencia Club de Fútbol, the first time ever that UN Women will collaborate with a professional sports team.

The United Nations rights office called today on the Government of Kyrgyzstan to ensure that the freedoms of expression and association are protected in line with international human rights standards as the country’s Parliament prepared to hear the first reading of draft law that could negatively affect the work of civil society organizations there.