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
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / United Nations world headquarters in New York By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – A top UN Rights official Monday called Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank “illegal”, saying it
DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on Friday. Stoltenberg and Esper had discussions to follow up the decisions taken by NATO Defence Ministers last week on issues
Credit: COHA / The four Embassy defenders in front of the federal court in Washington DC Feb. 14, 2020: David Paul, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine, and Kevin Zeese By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES An activist group that supports embattled Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro took over
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