International Criminal Court headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN human rights experts said Thursday that the decision by the United States to authorize sanctions targeting staff at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Credit: By Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times/ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Israel’s plan to annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank would create “a Palestinian Bantustan” and violates a core
Credit: scmwiki2012.wordpress.com/ The Venezuelan military escorted Iranian tankers delivering a crucial supply of petrol to the country to foil any attempt by the US to stop them. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States Wednesday imposed sanctions on five Iranian ship captains who
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / Diplomatic Times / Headquarters of U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S Department of State, in its annual Country Reports of Terrorism released today, said the Iranian regime and its proxies continued to
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) until Aug. 31, 2020. The resolution requests the UN Secretary-General to continue to inform the Security
Credit: ec.europa.eu/ Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES “I do not know what it is to be black,” Ursula von der Leyen, a German, and president of the European Commission stated. The
Credit: ©ICC-CPI/ Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands January 2019. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Not content with the International Criminal Court‘s acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo of all war crime charges, the
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at Department of State headquarters in Washington D.C. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that a historic United Nations Human Rights Council
Credit / UN News/Daniel Dickinson / George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Human Rights Commission will launch a report to address
Credit: europol.europa.eu / Four houses and arrested three individuals suspected of forgery of documents. DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The French Border Police (Police Aux Frontières) within the French National Police (Police Nationale), supported by Europol, dismantled a large criminal network involved in document fraud. On the