LONDON —Europe’s security “is on a knife edge” and President-elect Donald Trump is right to say NATO member nations must increase military spending, Britain’s top diplomat said Thursday. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that “the post-Cold War peace i...
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A Vienna-based diplomat said Iran had de-designated all the French and German members of the IAEA inspection team. There were already no U.S. or British members. "This measure, while formally permitted by the NPT Safeguards Agreement, has been exercised by Iran in a manner...
Von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, named only two men in her top echelon with four women as vice presidents, including Kaja Kallas as foreign policy chief. Kallas was already agreed on by government leaders. On Tuesdya, Von der Leyen added Spa...
Next week Bozkir will preside at the annual gathering of world leaders at the General Assembly which will be mainly virtual, with leaders delivering prerecorded speeches to a virtual audience and one diplomat from each member state in the assembly chamber. ...
Pompeo's nomination has yet to be approved by the U.S. Congress although it highly unlikely to be vetoed. Tillerson, former chief executive of the U.S. oil and gas company Exxon, assumed office on Feb. 1, 2017. He underwent a rocky term as a newcomer diplomat due to his divergence ...
Facing growing pressure over his looming deadline to leave Afghanistan, President Joe Biden dispatched his spy chief to meet with the Taliban's de facto leader, according to a senior diplomat in the region and another source familiar with the matter. ...
Asserting that “a good development has taken place in the course of cooperation” between Iran and the UN nuclear agency, the top diplomat noted that Tehran had consistently criticized the IAEA chief’s political approach to Iran and that he had even brought up the issue in a face-to-face...
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Each year, the country hosting the U.N. negotiations known as the Conference of the Parties — where COP gets its name — nominates a person to chair the talks. Hosts typically pick a veteran diplomat as the talks can be incredibly difficult to steer between competing nations and ...