UNITED NATIONS—President Barack Obama is making the case for diplomacy and collective action – highlighting U.S.-led efforts in the Middle East – as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. A White House official said Obama will point to the recently completed nuclear deal between the P5+1 and Iran as an example of […]
SEOUL—South Korea and North Korea reached a deal early Tuesday to defuse the latest confrontation on the Korean peninsula after three days of tense negotiations. There was no immediate report on details of the accord, but the office of South Korean President Park Geun-hye said it would make an announcement shortly. Earlier Monday, President Park […]
Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. ButMonday’s conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on the simmering conflict in Ukraine is an exception. The bilateral nature of the conversation and its timing amid mounting claims of cease-fire violations from the Ukrainian government and […]
Many in Lebanon are outraged and the Lebanese government has initiated an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding an instagram post of Miss Israel, Miss Lebanon, Miss Japan and Miss Slovenia while in south Florida recently. While the photo isn’t one that would normally merit news coverage, because the photo shows Miss Lebanon and Miss […]