Diplomacy & Crisis News

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it is “deeply troubled” by indications that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) appears to have restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor.

The White House meeting is a chance to repair a damaged relationship.

The new Afghan government will likely include ethnicities other than the Taliban’s own. But women are probably out of luck.

The top UN envoy for the Middle East peace process told the UN Security Council on Monday that three months after the deadly escalation in violence between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip, the situation there remains tense.

The leader of the Afghan anti-Taliban resistance vows to battle in the encircled Panjshir Valley to keep alive his father’s dream.

Rarement la Cour suprême des États-Unis aura autant fait parler d'elle pendant une campagne électorale. Critiquée pour avoir dérégulé le financement de la vie politique, elle est devenue l'enjeu d'un bras de fer entre républicains et démocrates : qui nommera le successeur du défunt juge Scalia et fera (...) / États-Unis, États-Unis (affaires intérieures), Élections, Finance, Justice, Parti politique, Politique, Corruption - 2016/06

With one million species at risk of extinction, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called for greater leadership and political will to end the biodiversity crisis.

Lifesaving medical supplies reached Afghanistan by air on Monday, the first UN shipment to arrive since the Taliban takeover more than a week ago, as UN human rights experts called on the country's new rulers to live up to their promise to fully protect the rights of women and girls in the country.

La course pour le remplacement de Ban Ki-moon au poste de secrétaire général de l'Organisation des Nations unies a déjà démarré. D'ici à la fin de l'année, le nom du titulaire devrait être connu, au terme d'un processus qui, pour la première fois, a vu se tenir des auditions publiques. L'auteur fut (...) / États-Unis, Coopération internationale, Élections, État, Géopolitique, Mutation, Politique, Relations internationales, Diplomatie, Organisation internationale - 2016/06

Ensuring the right to a nationality and eradicating statelessness is more pressing than ever, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, as it marked the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19 risk reduction measures to ensure that in-person lessons can go ahead, despite rising infection rates.

Drone strikes over the weekend underscore the changing nature, not the end, of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fulfil their obligations to prevent and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, a “cowardly practice” which the COVID-19 pandemic has made even more difficult to combat.

Interrogé en décembre 1998 sur la rareté de l'information internationale dans son journal télévisé, l'un des rédacteurs en chef de TF1 avait répliqué : « Vous voulez des nouvelles sur le Venezuela ? Regardez la chaîne vénézuélienne. Sur le Soudan ? Regardez les chaînes africaines. » Le 24 mars dernier, la (...) / Kosovo, Médias, Réfugiés, Guerre du Kosovo 1999, Infoguerre - 1999/05

With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world “cannot abandon them now”, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday after concluding a visit to the country.

For millions of villagers in Indonesia’s remote areas, a 12-hour-per-day erratic electricity supply is the norm. With students studying by candlelight at night and health centres not running at full capacity, these communities face an uphill struggle to improve their well-being. 

Countries which have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) are urged by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to do so without delay.

Dans les premières années de la révolution russe, une vive effervescence saisit tous les domaines de l'art, et notamment le théâtre. Anatoli Lounatcharski, responsable de la politique culturelle, en fut le garant et l'un des théoriciens. Le réalisme socialiste, promu sous Staline en 1934, y mit un (...) / Russie, URSS, Art, Communisme, Culture, Histoire, Idées, Idéologie, Théâtre, Marxisme - 2016/06

Innovators are joining Paralympians to discuss how sport can help to build a more inclusive society in a series of online discussions organized by the UN to coincide with the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which continues until 5 September.

With medical stocks dwindling in Afghanistan, and insecurity at the airport in the capital, Kabul, following the terrorist attack on Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to examine ways to deliver much-needed supplies to the country, a senior official told journalists in Geneva.