Syria’s longtime Foreign Minister al-Moallem dies at age 79
Syria’s longtime Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country’s most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against President Bashar Assad, died on Monday.
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Remembering Saeb Erekat, pivotal Palestinian diplomat
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat died Tuesday at age 65 after a month-long battle with the coronavirus. Erekat had led several rounds of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over more than two decades, embodying Palestinian diplomacy -- and his people’s hopes for…
World leaders celebrate Biden-Harris win
Cascading around the globe on social media and live news broadcasts, word of the victory in Pennsylvania that pushed former Vice President Joe Biden past the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed to take over the Oval Office brought…
WATCH LIVE: U.N. General Assembly – Day 3
China, the United States and Russia butted heads at the United Nations on Thursday over responsibility for the pandemic that has interrupted the world.
President Donald Trump is set to give a prerecorded address to the U.N. General Assembly as he grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, chilly relations between the U.S. and China and ongoing threats from North Korea and Iran — all during…
Coronavirus cases in Florida, Arizona and South Carolina are increasing faster than in any other country in the world, reigniting the debate over American exceptionalism. Nick Schifrin talks to former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda, former Hungarian ambassador to the…
In his first official visit to India, President Trump was greeted largely with warmth and enthusiasm. But his arrival, at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing widespread criticism for a new law that opens pathways to citizenship…
Speaking at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Esper said he had had a series of productive bilateral and collective meetings with allies about the proposals and the way forward.
There’s no indication yet that China’s novel coronavirus outbreak is slowing. More than 50 million people live in cities essentially locked down to prevent the illness’ spread, but fatalities and infections continue to rise. There are also many questions about…
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