Diplomacy & Crisis News

The United States evacuates its embassy while diplomats and aid officials brace for a new humanitarian catastrophe.

Si elle veut encore exister en l'an 2000, l'Europe de l'électronique doit consentir des investissements lourds et faire des paris risqués. Absents de plusieurs domaines-clés, ses industriels devront tenter de sauter une génération de produits, voire plusieurs, et parfois acheter des compétences (...) / Intégration régionale, Japon, Technologie, Électronique - 1991/06

Authoritarians around the world are perfecting the art of seeming more powerful than they are.

A community-led project to manage some 28,000 tonnes of plastic waste and prevent 5,000 tonnes from ending up in the ocean is being supported by the UN in one of the most popular tourist attractions in Viet Nam.

Europe’s poster child for pandemic dysfunction can now teach other countries how to beat the disease.

“Social responsibility and sustainable profit” can go hand in hand according to the chief of Thailand’s government pension fund. The UN, and some of the biggest players in the Thai economy, are working together to support efforts by the country’s finance and banking institutions to speed up the South East Asian country’s transition to a net zero carbon economy.

The United Nations is working to support rescue and relief efforts in Haiti following a powerful earthquake that reportedly left hundreds dead, with perhaps even more injured and missing, and caused massive damage in the south-western part of the country.

The Wakhan Corridor is a fiercely contested imperial hangover.

Ahmed Rabbani’s journey through the U.S. dark prison system to Guantánamo.

UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts expressed deep concern on Friday over Israeli military interference in the work of a well-known, independent Palestinian child rights organization, in the occupied West Bank.

The UN Secretary-General on Friday called on Taliban militants to “immediately halt” their offensive against Government forces and return to the negotiating table in good faith, “in the interest of Afghanistan, and its people.”

Despair elides the progress made over the last two decades.

More desperate migrants will head West in coming years—and the West’s migration policies must change in response.

Racism and hubris are marring Beijing’s image globally.

What the 27 mostly unpublished missives tell us about the future of U.S.-North Korean diplomacy.

But others question the “market-based” approach of Biden’s chief climate envoy.

Britain’s decision to compensate slaveholders was unjust, unpalatable—and effective.

Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than 40 UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday called for an end to the violence, urging Governments to promote dialogue, tolerance and diversity. 

This week in FP’s international news quiz: climate change red flags, a looming Taliban takeover, and one risky helicopter landing.

Why Moscow’s moves could determine the future of navigation