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
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel / Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, in the President of the United Nations Security Council for the month of July 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – GERMANY officially took
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / United Nations world headquarters in New York By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday demanding a 90-day “humanitarian pause” in conflicts worldwide to allow states to tackle
United Nations Security Council held briefing on the implementation of resolution 2231 of Iran Nuclear Agreement at UN world headquarters in New York City June 30, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Iran’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohammad
Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered the European Union’s ambassador to leave the country in 72 hours after Brussels slapped sanctions against 11 officials of the Maduro regime. Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, the EU
Criminal Connoisseurs produced low-quality wine passed off as premium spirits to the unsuspecting. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Criminal wine connoisseurs dabbled in fraud by the glass until the authorities caught up with them. The Italian NAS Carabinieri of Florence (Arma dei Carabinieri), supported by