Diplomacy & Crisis News

Peter Singer says it is a big deal.

Dorénavant, le scénario est bien rodé. Des marchands de conspirations attribuent chaque bouleversement du monde à l'Occident, aux Juifs, aux financiers de Wall Street, aux francs-maçons, etc. Assurément, la plupart des théoriciens du complot versent dans la paranoïa et surestiment le rôle de (...) / Désinformation, Histoire, Idées, Idéologie, Information, Médias, Politique, Religion, Infoguerre - 2015/06

Cortèges protestataires, participation aux élections, exercice du pouvoir. Ces trois types d'action politique comportent une caractéristique commune : les catégories populaires s'en éloignent ou en sont écartées. / États-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Démocratie, Élections, Inégalités, Médias, Mouvement de (...) / États-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Démocratie, Élections, Inégalités, Médias, Mouvement de contestation, Mutation, Parti politique, Politique, Travail - 2015/06

Why deploying an American-led global army against the Islamic State would be a really bad idea.

Event Notice: Contested Terrain: The Future of Afghan Women, Today, 12:15 -1:45 p.m., (New America) Afghanistan Minister of Commerce and Industries submits 100-day plan Minister of Commerce and Industries Humayoun Rasa submitted his policy plan for the next 100 days on Thursday, outlining his strategies for developing the Afghan economy (TOLO). He said that corruption is ...

By Paul McLeary with Ariel Robinson Deal or no deal? Earlier this week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu claimed Ankara and Washington had agreed in “principle” to provide air support to the Syrian fighters the U.S. is training and equipping to fight the Islamic State. But American officials say they’re not yet ready to go ...

Kurdish forces in Syria’s northeast retook a series of villages that the Islamic State captured earlier this year. The towns’ residents are reportedly waiting to return for fear of booby traps, and approximately 200 Assyrian Christians from the area are still believed to be held by the Islamic State. Farther south, Assad regime forces conducted ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the escalation of fighting in Yemen in a telephone conversation with the country&#39s President, the United Nations has confirmed.

The diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East peace process today announced that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to step aside as the group’s Representative and expressed its “deep appreciation” for his “remarkable service” and commitment to advancing peace and prosperity for Israelis and Palestinians.

One in every 10 cigarettes consumed is illicit, making them cheaper and more accessible to people from low-income groups, as well as to children, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned ahead of this year’s World No Tobacco Day, devoted to combatting the illegal tobacco trade.

The head of the United Nations’ regional commission in Latin America and the Caribbean has met with the Premier of China, and looked forward to greater cooperation and a deeper relationship with the Asian country.

More open and constructive dialogues should be held among Sudanese stakeholders as a top priority to address ‘the silence and the denials’ of crimes against women, a United Nations human rights expert concluded after her recent mission to the country.

(Own report) - A recently declassified memo of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveals that the West had supported the creation of the "Islamic State" (IS). Using jihadist forces has been a Western tradition for decades, as the Afghanistan war in the 1980s and an analysis of the Western power struggle with Iran (especially since 2003) show. In the 1980s, western countries - in collaboration with Saudi Arabia - had supported jihadists associated with Osama bin Laden, to defeat Soviet military forces in Afghanistan. Since at least ten years, they have been supporting Arab jihadists in an effort to weaken Iran's main allies. These activities, accompanying the official "war on terror," are "a very high-risk venture,” warn US intelligence officials. Saudi Arabia, one of Germany's main allies in the Arab world, is playing a central role in supporting jihadists.

His most notable achievement as Middle East peace envoy: Moving his offices out of a hotel and into a permanent location.

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 ...