By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Since 1962, the United States has maintained a crippling economic embargo on Cuba. The UN General Assembly on Thursday called for an end to the decades-old US blockade on Cuba. The UN voted overwhelmingly 189-2 in favor of ending the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES SAN FRANCISCO – I walk up an immensely steep hill on Green Street in San Francisco’s ritzy Pacific Heights neighborhood. The ‘smell’ of old, old San Francisco money is in the air. Pacific
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NEW YORK – The President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, chose powerful words from American political icon Eleanor Roosevelt to drive home the importance of the war tribunal. The ICC President addressed the United Nations General Assembly Monday
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES While NATO has not stated it officially, the Alliance’s largest military exercise since the Cold War currently being conducted in Norway is to send a message to Russia. NATO’s Operation Trident Juncture 18 kicked off last week with 50,000 participants
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued a ruling last week that insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad is not protected by freedom of expression. The Strasbourg, France-based Human Rights Court ruled that defaming the Prophet “goes beyond
By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC NEWS New York – Dabney Montgomery, who was a ground crewman with the all-black Tuskegee Airman during World War II, died in 2016 at the grand old age of 93. He was stationed in southern Italy during the war. A little
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Clare Hutchinson, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, said sustainable peace will not be achieved without women’s empowerment and participation. Hutchinson made the remarks in UN Security Council debate on women’s empowerment in New York on
By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES New York- Pret A Manger agreed to cough up nearly $1,000,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the U.K.-based sandwich chain of underpaying staff at its stores in New York. A lawsuit was filed last month accusing the sandwich
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Supersonic Concorde epitomized beauty and power. Some described the plane as a giant swan flying and many referred to it as the greatest and most glamorous civilian aircraft ever built. The plane’s technology was decades ahead of its time when it made