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A Wall Street Journal headline caught Bijan Sabet's attention in mid-March as the diplomat, former venture capitalist, and Boston College graduate scrolled on his phone. 'A Small Ex-Soviet Satellite State [...]

Soon after assuming his post as Australian ambassador to China in 2007, Geoff Raby visited a restaurant in Beijing’s Songzhuang neighbourhood and was captivated by what he saw: oil paintings [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations: OSCE PA Special Representative on Anti-Semitism, Racism and Intolerance, Senator Ben Cardin (United States) concluded [...]

ATLANTA: Points of Light has issued the following news release: The 2024 Points of Light Global Summit on Social Impact will unfold as a beacon of inspiration for 250 global [...]

Lineup Includes Mark Brzezinski, United States Ambassador to Poland; Agnieszka BuczyÊäska, Polish minister for civil society, chairwoman of the public benefit committee; and Neil Bush, chair, Points of Light Board [...]

Brussels: European Union External Action Service has issued the following news release: In the current geopolitical context, hate crimes, hate speech, and threats to civil liberties and freedom of peaceful [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of State: U.S. Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice Desiree Cormier Smith will travel to Mexico City for [...]

Byline: Isabelle Khurshudyan and John Hudson MOSCOW - Despite significant tensions over a Russian troop buildup at the Ukrainian border, U.S. diplomats have overcome a months-long standoff with the Kremlin [...]

This week, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro: This week, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline: This week, Congressman David Cicilline (RI-01), Chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus; Congressman [...]

Interest in becoming a diplomat has grown, and President Biden's outreach to other nations is appealing to aspiring diplomats, many of whom felt alienated by Trump policies. WASHINGTON -- When [...]

BEIJING, China -- The following information was released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China: --Address by H.E. Ambassador Huang Xilian at the Awarding Ceremony [...]

Former Hungarian Ambassador Jozsef Bencze took the honor of reading 'Meg nem eleg' (Not Yet Enough), a masterpiece by Vaci Mihaly, who was a Hungarian poet and publicist, and whose [...]

WASHINGTON: Weber Shandwick has issued the following press release: Powell Tate, the leading specialty public affairs unit of Weber Shandwick, today announced the appointment of Meghann Curtis as senior vice [...]

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Powell Tate, the leading specialty public affairs unit of Weber Shandwick, today announced the appointment of Meghann Curtis as senior vice president, Public Affairs [...]

VIENNA, Austria -- The following information was released by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE): COPENHAGEN, 21 April 2021 ù United States Senator Ben Cardin, the OSCE [...]

On December 4, 2020, Special Representative of President Xi Jinping, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the United Nations Security Council High-level Debate on cooperation between the United [...]

OTTAWA, Canada -- The following information was released by the office of the Prime Minister of Canada: The Holocaust was one of the darkest chapters in human history. Seventy-five years [...]

Byline: John Kelly It was a single line in a biography of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan -- head of the CIA's precursor, the OSS -- that sent Harvey Solomon on [...]

Byline: Emily Heil With Galentine's Day (yeah, it's kind of a thing) less than a week away, here's a lady friendship worth celebrating: On Thursday, Barbra Streisand tweeted a picture [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen: Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor This story has been updated. As Beijing faced international criticism for its continued crackdown on Uighurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang region over recent days, a [...]

Ukraine is friendly place for Jews - U.S. special envoy KYIV. May 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has said that the National Police will resolutely react [...]

Byline: Abbie Wightwick He was once described as the 'Barry Boy that helped free Mandela'. Welsh-born Somali diplomat Abdulrahim Abby Farah who has died at home in New York aged [...]

There is a First Amendment right to record public police activity, and those doing so will be protected from retaliation from this point forward. Is the recording of police carrying [...]

Byline: Karla Adam LONDON -- Even by the lavish standards of west London's numerous multimillionaires, Jon Hunt's plans for a new basement went way beyond extravagant. A resident of Kensington [...]

After three years as a diplomat based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Daniel Guimares learned he would be posted to New York for a position with the Brazilian mission to the United [...]

The American ambassador pressed the Pakistani president on Monday to release an American official who Washington said was detained illegally after he shot and killed two men in Lahore. Ambassador [...]

FLINT, Mich., Nov. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Diplomat Pharmacy, Inc. (NYSE: DPLO), the nation's largest independent specialty pharmacy, is now accepting applications for its 2015 Fellowship for Social Impact program. [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A logjam blocking visas for United States diplomats in Pakistan has been broken, a senior American official said during a visit here on Friday. The official, Jacob [...]

Byline: Reuters Amsterdam -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded yesterday that former U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and former secretary of state Madeleine Albright appear at the UN [...]

Byline: MARGARET WENTE Would another Republican in the White House make the world a safer place? Richard Holbrooke says absolutely not. Niall Ferguson says absolutely yes. It's a brawl of [...]

Byline: DEIRDRE KELLY As Douglas Knight quipped about Pamela Wallin, at a party in her honour held recently at the York Club: 'That gorgeous blonde is no stranger to war [...]

WARM WELCOME ... Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad being greeted by Wei Pingsu, the wife of Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, Guan Dengming (fifth from right) at a Chinese [...]

SEOUL, Feb 20 Asia Pulse - Some Korean people expect the U.S. ambassador to face difficulty as Washington's top diplomat to the country of his birth, but Sung Kim said [...]