Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten / U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Jorge Alberto Arreaza, Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Feb. 11, 2019 at the world body’s headquarters in New York. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
Credit: twitter.com/jarreaza / Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza met privately with U.N. Secretary General António Guterres at his residence in the swank Sutton Place section of mid-Manhattan Monday evening. Arreaza was supposed to be present at a
Credit: African Union / Rwandan President Paul Kagame hands over the baton to the new Chairperson of the African Union Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Feb. 10, 2019 at the AU’s Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The appointment of Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The surprise move by the United States to cut some $17 million in military aid to west-central Africa nation Cameroon should put France to shame. The U.S. announced last Thursday it is slashing the nearly $20 million in aid earmarked
Photo by Gary Raynaldo / NYPD crime scene investigation at 227 Cherry Street in Lower Manhattan Friday morning Feb. 8, 2019 after a man was fatally shot in a police officer involved shooting. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A man was fatally shot by a
Credit: wikipedia commons / Jamal Khashoggi By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Saudi Arabia seriously curtailed and undermined Turkey’s investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.N. human rights expert said in preliminary report released Thursday. U.N. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard said the evidence showed
Photo by: Gary Raynaldo / Symposium on Inside Iran: Forty Years After the Iranian Revolution at Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan Feb. 6, 2019. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Iran’s Islamic Revolution 40 years ago was a political earthquake that shook the world,
Photo by: Gary Raynaldo / A new ‘Just Salad’ has opened at 750 3rd Avenue / E. 46th Street in Manhattan By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A new JUST SALAD eatery held its Grand Opening Thursday at its latest digs located at 750 3rd Avenue
Credit: Wikipedia / The French Republic is founded on principles of liberty, equality and fraternity By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES France recalled its Ambassador in Rome for what it characterized as “repeated attacks, accusations” from Italy’s political leaders, the French Republic announced Thursday. “For several
Photo by Gary Raynaldo / Protesters hold rally near United Nations against human rights crisis in East Turkestan Feb. 5, 2019 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES OUTSIDE UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – About 50 protesters rallied near the United Nations Tuesday to call attention