By Alan MacLeod Award-winning Syrian photographer Ameer Alhalbi lies dazed on the ground. His head is heavily bruised and bandaged, blood covers his face, arms, and much of his body. Lengths of cotton wool have been stuffed up his broken nose, giving him
Nice, capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera, where an alleged terrorist attack took place inside a church in the city centre on 29 October, 2020. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Secretary-General on
In February 2012, French authorities seized the Paris Avenue Foch mansion of Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Obiang as part of a money-laundering probe. Equatorial Guinea contends the seizure was illegal because the property serves as the African nations’s Diplomatic Embassy in France. By Gary Raynaldo
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES France is among the major Western suppliers of arms to Saudi Arabia. While most of the attention and criticism by humanitarian groups have been on the United States and the United Kingdom’s role in supplying weapons to Saudi
credit: EBCNewstwitter / Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed bid farewell to President Emmanuel Macron March 13, 2019 as he concluded his two-day state visit to Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Make no mistake about it, French influence on the African continent has been on
Credit: whc.unesco.org/ France-UNESCO By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES France will increase its voluntary contribution to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to €5 million ($5.7 million) in 2019 to support programs and projects related to the education of girls and Africa, the
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