By Amina J. Mohammed – Following is a slightly abridged version of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed’s remarks at the Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa, in which she reports on her visits to Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. – Editor
UNITED NATIONS (WEBPUBLICAPRESS) – This undertaking, from 19 to [...]
By John J. Metzler - St. NAZAIRE, France — “Lafayette, we are here,” became the clarion call upon the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force to France in 1917.
The USA had just entered the hostilities, three years into the Great War, and now the battle hardened U.S. General John Pershing was in a sense returning the favor of [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – US President Donald Trump has reverted to blaming “both sides” for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. Politicians from both parties in the US were quick to react, rejecting Trump’s position, Radio Deutsche Welle (RDW) reported quoting other news agencies.
At a dramatic press conference held at Trump Tower in [...]
By Mike O’Sullivan (VOA News) LOS ANGELES — Vice President Mike Pence heads to Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Panama on Sunday, meeting with foreign leaders in a role that is becoming familiar for an administration that has left many top diplomatic posts unfilled.
Since April, Pence has visited South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Australia, attended security meetings in Munich and [...]
By David L. Phillips – Serbia wants to join the European Union (EU). Brussels is clear: no EU membership for Serbia until it normalizes relations with Kosovo. Normalization means recognizing Kosovo’s independence.
Kosovo rejected ties to Serbia in 1991, in response to Slobodan Milosevic’s draconian repression. More than 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died and up to one million [...]
By J Nastranis -UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Nearly three months after Cristina Gallach of Spain vacated her post as head of the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Alison Smale of the United Kingdom as her successor with the designation Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications.
Smale is the first head of DPI since [...]
By Esther Faiden (RDW) – Whenever the situation on the Korean Peninsula gets tense, calls ring out for China to mediate. Beijing, it is said, should put pressure on its neighbor. But China has its own opinion.
It was a customary response from Beijing: The crisis over North Korea is “complicated and tense,” read a statement from the Chinese [...]
Irene Banos Ruiz (RDW) - The ongoing scandal over contaminated eggs has raised serious concerns about food safety. How can we ensure the quality of products we buy – and eat? And how do illegal substances end up on our plates at all?
Most people would avoid deliberately eating pesticides - but they don’t realize that they’re eating them [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York – On a escalated level now – the North Korean and US leaders have engaged in an escalating war of words in recent months. Tensions revolve around Pyongyang’s developing missile and nuclear weapons programs.
Quoting news agencies – Radio Deutsche Welle (RDW) documented a words exchange and events followed North Korea issue:
April 30: [...]
By John J. Metzler - PARIS — A year ago France was on edge. Islamic Jihadi terrorists had killed 86 people with a truck ramming incident at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice. Shortly thereafter a elderly priest was murdered as he said Mass.
These attacks following a spate of earlier shootings in Paris killing over 130 which put [...]
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