Diplomacy & Crisis News

The national security law is a direct threat to foreign firms.

Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide.

From piracy to the Ever Given, colonialism left hard scars.

The world is waking up to the importance of mangroves, a senior UN official said on Monday, underscoring the need for everyone to support restoration and protection of these crucial habitats. 

Le nouveau Parlement iranien comptera moins d'ultraconservateurs. En entretenant les espoirs de changement, les modérés et les réformateurs qui soutiennent le président Hassan Rohani espèrent faire évoluer sans rupture un régime dont la force tient aujourd'hui davantage au ferment national qu'au (...) / Iran, Proche-Orient, Démocratie, Élections, Femmes, Islam, Jeunes, Logement, Mutation, Nationalisme, Politique, Religion, Drogue, Société civile - 2016/05

Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development. 

More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, a United Nations report revealed on Monday.

And here’s why that’s a national security issue.

Longtemps les gouvernements anticommunistes d'Amérique centrale ont offert à Taïwan certains de ses plus fidèles alliés. L'évolution politique de la Chine et le renforcement de ses liens commerciaux avec la région ont toutefois modifié la donne… Les deux rivaux du détroit de Formose ne luttent pas à (...) / Amérique latine, Chine, États-Unis, Taïwan, Commerce international, Géopolitique, Guérilla, Histoire, Relations internationales, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Matières premières, Costa Rica, Diplomatie, Corruption - 2016/05

His support for the pipeline abandoned a bipartisan consensus, got nothing in return, and made the world less secure.

The impending announcement should give Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi some breathing room ahead of October elections.

As Blinken heads to New Delhi, he could find some surprising common ground on Afghanistan.

Intelligence assets who worked for the CIA now face deadly reprisals.

“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres said on Sunday after the Group failed to agree on the wording of key climate change commitments during their recent Ministerial Meeting on Environment, Climate and Energy.

Contrairement au cliché réducteur qui veut qu'une ligne de fracture violente oppose désormais les deux branches principales de l'islam, de nombreux Maghrébins demeurent peu sensibles à la logique confessionnelle. / Algérie, Arabie saoudite, Maroc, Syrie, Tunisie, Monde arabe, Conflit, Géopolitique, (...) / Algérie, Arabie saoudite, Maroc, Syrie, Tunisie, Monde arabe, Conflit, Géopolitique, Islam, Politique, Relations internationales, Maghreb, Diplomatie, Réveil arabe 2011- - 2016/04

A hydroelectric project could force UNESCO to delist the spectacular World Heritage Site.

A “lack of global solidarity” including the hoarding of vaccines by richer nations as well as slow vaccination rate has contributed to Indonesia becoming the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia, according to the UN’s top official in the country.

Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on Saturday women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome, ahead of the Food Systems Pre-Summit taking place next week.

A new biography paints a portrait of a president who made vast progress on policy—and failed at smoke-and-mirrors PR.

How Soviet artists evaded censors to create their own visions of Tolkien.