By Gary Raynaldo / DIPLOMATIC TIMES What gives!? Most of us know the former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is fluent in Russian, and is a classically trained pianist. But an NFL football coach?! Yes, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who reported that the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Alfred Yekatom (AKA ‘Rambo’) was surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague Saturday by authorities of the Central African Republic (“CAR”). The former militia leader will face trial for alleged crimes against humanity. The ICC had
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Pressure is mounting on President Trump and Saudi Arabia after a damning CIA report implicated the Kingdom’s Crown Prince in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to the Washington Post, the CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Trump administration Thursday announced sanctions against 17 Saudis for their alleged roles in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Among those being sanctioned are Saud al-Qahtani, a former top aide to Saudi
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES At least 53 persons were killed when suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a hotel last Friday in the Somalia capital city Mogadishu. Attacks were reported on the popular Sahafi Hotel, near the country’s criminal investigations department as two car
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES United Nations experts have pointed to possible war crimes by parties to the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen. The UN is warning the Saudi-led assault is contributing to the death of a young child every 10 minutes in Yemen, a country at the southern
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan warned U.S. President Donald Trump not to pull “the trigger of war in the Middle East at the insistence of Israel,” speaking November 8 while on a visit to Iran. Farrakhan’s visit to
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The State of Palestine has instituted legal proceedings against the United States in the International Court Of Justice over Washington’s decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Filed in the United Nations top court,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Nine members of a criminal migrant network have been arrested in a joint operation carried out by Spain and France, EUROPOL, announced. The investigation revealed that around 1,200 migrants were smuggled by plane from Palestine to Northern Europe through Spain
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Gabonese President Ali Bongo is seriously ill but on the mend, his spokesman says, ending weeks of official silence on his condition, according to the BBC. Bongo is currently being treated in Saudi Arabia. According to media reports the