By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – The Pentagon is reviewing a Capitol Police request to keep some 2,200 National Guardsmen deployed at the U.S. Capitol another 60 days. The request was made amid security concerns of further violence following January’s
U.S. Africa Command forces stationed in Djibouti conducted an operational and logistics assessment in Gao, Mali, March 3, 2021 (credit: africom.mil) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Africa Command forces stationed in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa conducted an operational and logistics assessment
(credit: Gary Raynaldo ©Diplomatic Times) National Guard troops on steps of Federal Court near Capital in Washington D.C. Mar. 4, 2021 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – Capital Police is requesting the Pentagon to extend the deployment of National Guard troops at
(credit: icc.int) International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Biden administration is strongly opposing the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Palestine. The ICC’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda confirmed
(credit: Gary Raynaldo ©Diplomatic Times) National Guard troops on duty in front of U.S. Capital building fortified with barricaded fencing and razor wire in Washington D.C. March 4, 2021 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Capital Police is reportedly in
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES There are no current reports of U.S. servicemember injuries from this morning’s rocket attacks on the air base at Al Asad in Iraq, the Pentagon said. At least 10 rockets targeted an military base in western Iraq that
(credit: Gary Raynaldo ©Diplomatic Times) New York firefighter on the scene of two-Alarm fire at five-story commercial building at 38 West 39th St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues in midtown Manhattan March 3, 2021. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NEW YORK CITY
Satellite image, showing the damage to at least five structures at Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq in a series of precision missile strikes launched by Iran 8 January 2020 (wikipedia / © 2020 Planet Labs, Inc. cc-by-sa 4.0) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES At
(Wikipedia / Mitya Aleshkovsky) Russia opposition activist Alexei Navalny DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF REPORT UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Russia is responsible for the poisoning and attempted killing of jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny, two independent UN rights experts said on Monday, issuing an “open
(UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi) Young woman wears earbuds while working on her laptop. DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF REPORT UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – By 2050, around one-in-four people will be living with some degree of hearing loss, the UN health agency warned on Tuesday, in its