Credit: EUROPOL / The organised criminal gang targeted luxurious cars in Germany and then sold them outside of the EU. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A joint anti-organised crime operation by Europol and Eurojust led to the arrest last week of 12 Lithuanians suspected of
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES HAVANA – Writing about the issue of race relations in Cuba is like walking through a minefield. That’s because the subject of race in Cuba is a political minefield. Shortly after taking power in 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro addressed the race issue in response to
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES It was the first ever criminal case against the tobacco industry alleging murder, manslaughter, and aggravated assault. Anne Marie van Veen, a Dutch lung cancer patient, and an Amsterdam lawyer, Bénédicte Ficq, filed a criminal complaint in 2016 accusing major tobacco
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES British Airways announced it will resume flights to Pakistan after a 10-year-absence, with service from Heathrow to Islamabad starting June 2, 2019. Tickets are currently on sale, the airline said. On Sep. 22, 2008, BA suspended all flights to Pakistan indefinitely following the suicide bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. The attack, killed more
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES HAVANA – Cubans seem to be able to hold on to old things and find new use for them while most of us in the First World would consider them junk and toss them into the dustbin of history. The
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that was scheduled this Sunday has been postponed until December 30, the DRC electoral commission announced today. Citing a fire that reportedly destroyed thousands of electronic voting machines, the DRC Independent National Election Commission (CENI) stated in was “technically
By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United Nations General Assembly Wednesday adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to help ensure the safety of refugees and migrants. “I welcome the adoption by the General Assembly of the Global Compact for Safe,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda chastised states such as Jordan, Djibouti, and Uganda for failing to arrest and surrender Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir for suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bensouda appeared before the U.N. Security
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES National Security Advisor John Bolton presented the White House’s Africa strategy last Thursday that is aimed at increasing efforts to counter Russian and Chinese influence on the Continent. The Strategy is focused on three areas: advancing U.S. trade and commercial ties in Africa,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a “credible” investigation into journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, AFP reported Sunday. “It is absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to have the punishment of those that were