Diplomacy & Crisis News

U.S. officials believe Russia is facing its toughest fight since World War II.

The maritime insurance industry sees little elevated risk from China’s exercises.

Afghanistan’s extremist rulers are cracking down on minorities, especially Shiites, as hard as they have on women.

Accusing the U.S. ambassador of blackmail is just the start.

Military exercises have stiffened Japanese resolve.

Accepting—or rejecting—historical guilt for past evils doesn’t absolve nations of present-day responsibility.

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A round of violence launched by Israel’s strikes on Islamic Jihad leadership killed dozens, including children.

In July, a UN human rights officer embarked on an outreach visit to the Horn of Africa’s Sool and Sanaag regions, a seven-day round-trip of more than 1,600 kilometres by road.

Michael Mandelbaum has written a masterful interpretation of the twists and turns of U.S. foreign policy.

Around the world, artists provide snapshots into national psyches.

Around one million species are facing extinction, according to a report from IPBES, an independent intergovernmental science and policy body supported by the UN.

The ongoing and serious escalation of violence in and around Gaza between Palestinian militants and Israel has claimed the lives of 13 Palestinians by Israeli airstrikes, including a 5-year-old child and one woman, informed Lynn Hastings, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the territory.

A new history of modern art flips the script by focusing on dealers, collectors, and curators.

Three recent books tackle how threats to democracy have shifted in the 21st century.

Sam Aderubo started his company, Honey Pride, in Arua, northern Uganda, in order to make a positive impact on his community. With support from the UN, the business is taking off, providing work for hundreds of local beekeepers, many of whom are marginalized women and youth.

It is totally unacceptable for states in possession of nuclear weapons to admit the possibility of a nuclear war, António Guterres underscored early on Saturday in Japan at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Nuclear weapons will continue to pose a risk to humanity unless countries fully adhere to the treaty that prohibits their testing, a senior UN official said at a press conference in New York on Friday. 

Yoon Suk-yeol simply isn’t up to international diplomacy.