Credit: Wikipedia Commons/ Tasnim News Agency / Qasem Soleimani, Commander of Iran Quds Forces during National AGIR commanders conference 2013 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – A top UN Human Rights official said U.S. drone strike killing Iranian General
Credit: un.org/ MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko / The G5 Sahel HQ destroyed by a terrorist attack on 29 June 2018 in Mopti, Mali. The terror threat in the Sahel continues unabated despite a massive deployment UN peacekeepers and French troops tasked with halting jihadist’s attacks. By Gary
Credit: eppgroup.eu/ The EPP Group wants Europe to be better equipped to fight money laundering. DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF BRUSSELS – ʺEurope must be better equipped to fight criminal networks and their attempts to launder their ill-gotten gains. There must be no sanctuary in Europe for
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Amadou Gon Coulibaly By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast’s prime minister and the ruling party’s candidate for the October presidential election, has died suddenly. The 61-year-old Gon Coulibaly, who had heart
Credit: Wikipedia / Some $1 Billion worth of Venezuela gold is held in the Bank of England in London By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A British judge refused to give control of more than $1 billion in gold stored in London to Venezuelan leader Nicolas
Credit: MINUSMA/Gema Cortes / UN MINUSMA peacekeepers travelling to remote parts in Northern Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The United Nations Security Council last week extended for one year the mandate of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / AlfvanBeem / Iranian oil tanker, Dena, seen approaching Port of Rotterdam, Holland on 15 December 2007 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES United States prosecutors filed a Federal Court action Wednesday seeking seizure of all Iranian gasoline aboard four tankers headed
Credit: Interpol.int / The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) based in Lyon, France. DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF An agreement signed today in Berlin at the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community will see the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) contribute financially to the
Stock photo / Diplomatic relations between the European Union and Venezuela have been strained recently. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has reversed its recent decision ordering the European Union’s ambassador to leave the country after Brussels slapped
Credit: auswaertiges-amt.de/en / The Federal Republic of Germany assumed EU Presidency July 1, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Germany took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union Wednesday pledging solidarity and unity for the bloc against the backdrop