By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES BRITISH AIRWAYS is retiring its entire fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft, fondly known as ‘The Queen of the Skies’, after nearly 50 years of service as the airline suffers a severe travel downturn amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The
Credit: US AFRICA COMMAND / Verified image of a large improvised explosive device connected to Russian-backed Wagner Group hidden in cinder blocks within a residential area in Tripoli, Libya, according to AFRICOM. By Gary Raynado DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. military on Wednesday accused Russian
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A U.S. Federal judge Monday dismissed a ‘Helms-Burton’ lawsuit against the cruise company Carnival for doing business with Cuba. The judge in the Southern District of Florida Miami Division threw out the lawsuit filed in 2019 by Cuban-American Javier
Credit: facebook / ECOWAS has named Former Nigerian President Dr. Goodluck Eble Jonathan as Special Envoy to Mali DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Former Nigeria President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, as a special envoy to
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Data published by Guyana’s elections commission shows that President David Granger lost to opposition candidate Irfaan Ali in a recount of votes of March’s disputed vote. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced Wednesday the
Credit: twitterunpeacekeeping / UN Peacekeeping operation in Africa By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – A UN peacekeeper from Rwanda was killed and two others wounded in an attack Monday in the Central African Republic. The attack on Monday, in
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison, CA. completed in 2010. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, a convicted killer, was executed by lethal injection early Tuesday morning after an overnight conservative majority
Credit: avrupa.info.tr / Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Joseph Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, pledged “to do everything possible” to salvage the historic 2015 nuclear deal, JCPOA, between Tehran
Credit: coe.int/en / Racial profiling constitutes a specific form of racial discrimination and must be expressly prohibited by law – Council of Europe Anti-Racism Commission By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Council of Europe’s 47-member anti-racism commission, ECRI, warned against racial profiling in
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Ivory Coast VP Daniel Kablan Duncan By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Cote d’Ivoire’s Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned for “personal reasons”, the government of the west African nation announced on Monday. The surprise announcement further plunged the country