(WEBPUBLICA) New York – US President Donald Trump has confirmed his interest in buying Greenland from Denmark, saying the area was “strategically” interesting. Denmark and Greenland have repeatedly stressed the territory is not for sale, DW (Deutsche Welle) reported quoting other news sources.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that his administration looked into the [...]
By John J. Metzler - PARIS — It’s never polite to question the deteriorating human rights situation in China but let’s do it anyway.
The hidden and systematic repression of ethnic Uighur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang province and the high profile crackdown on pro-demonstrators in Hong Kong, many of them Christian, are both rooted in the same [...]
By Thalif Deen - UNITED NATIONS - When Yassir Arafat was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in 1988, the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the UN’s highest policy making body to Geneva– perhaps for the first time in UN history– providing a less-hostile [...]
By Martin Kuebler (DW) – The Geneva Conventions, the foundation of international humanitarian law, were adopted 70 years ago in the aftermath of World War II. With the changing nature of warfare and modern challenges, are they still relevant?
In 2019, seven decades after the adoption of the Geneva Conventions, the treaties that “contain the most important rules [...]
By John J. Metzler - PARIS — A long linguistic battle between French and English appears to have been settled; English won.
Some twenty-five years after legislation to specifically defend use of the French language, and protect its patrimony throughout the land, what’s known as the Toubon law has become a quaint footnote.
The respected French daily newspaper Le Figaro headlines [...]
By Thalif Deen - UNITED NATIONS – A crisis that has threatened to undermine the future of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is expected to have a devastating impact—not only on the credibility of the United Nations– but also on the lives of over five million Palestinian refugees whose very survival depends on the [...]
By David Ehl (DW) – The dispute over Kashmir has poisoned relations between India and Pakistan since the two became independent countries in 1947. Here’s an overview of how tensions have grown more dangerous over the past seven decades.
Like so many conflicts around the world, the dispute over Kashmir began with independence from a colonial power. In [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) – NEW YORK - The US is out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force missile treaty with Russia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says. The US immediately announced plans to start testing a new missile, DW (Deutsche Welle) reported.
US and Russia trade blame for ending INF treaty
The United States formally withdrew from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force pact [...]
By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS - The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has been undermined by a sharp cut in US contributions, has been embroiled in a scandal that threatens to jeopardize its very future.
A report from the Ethics Office has found “credible and corroborated” evidence that the senior management of UNRWA engaged [...]
By John J. Metzler - PARIS — A Summer heatwave has enveloped the French capital in a blanket of dry heat.
Following a Winter and Spring of churning discontent from the Yellow Vests, Gilet Jaunes, anti-government demonstrations, the current vacation season should have come as a welcome respite to the protest weary French. And you know it’s Summer when [...]
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