International

A growing list of foreign Governments are evacuating their diplomatic personnel and nationals from war-ravaged Sudan as fighting has entered into the second week. The United States, Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Italy and Spain have been evacuating diplomats and other nationals from the north-eastern African country in response to the deteriorating security situation there. A vicious power struggle between the Sudanese army

Brazil announced on Friday (April 7) its official return to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), from which it formally withdrew in April 2019. “As Brazil resumes its main international alliances, it will once again join the Union of South American Nations,” the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement. It added that the measure will take effect on May 6

Britain has secured an agreement to join CPTPP and will be the first new nation to join the Indo-Pacific trade bloc since it was set up in 2018, Politico reported on Wednesday (March 29). Joining the bloc would be the culmination of years of diplomatic and political efforts and will supplement existing bilateral trade deals Britain has with several of the member

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has called on the government to stop the controversial judicial reform legislation that has provoked mass protests across the country. “At this time, we must stop the process and sit down to talk,” Gallant who is a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s own right-wing Likud party said. “I am committed to Likud values … and placing the

Chinese president Xi Jinping is on a state visit to Russia from March 20 through 22, his first international trip since being re-elected. The Chinese leader had a tete-a-tete informal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (March 20), which lasted for 4.5 hours, according to Russian state media. Putin and Xi greeted one another as “dear friend” when they met in

Angry protests have erupted in Greece a day after a catastrophic train crash left 47 dead and dozens more injured. A high-speed passenger train from Athens to Thessaloniki with more than 350 people on board – many of them students returning from carnival celebrations – crashed head-on into a freight train near the city of Larissa shortly before midnight on Tuesday (Feb.

Israel’s newly sworn-in Foreign Minister Eli Cohen stated on Monday (Jan. 2) that the coalition government would be more reserved regarding the Russia-Ukraine issue, Haaretz reported. In his first address, Cohen, who took office last week as part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hard-right coalition government said that on the Ukraine crisis, “we will do one thing for certain – speak

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday (Dec. 30) he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit to Moscow in 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met remotely via video link Friday (Dec. 30). Putin invited Xi to pay a state visit to Russia in spring 2023, saying that the meeting would become the

The foreign ministers of the 30 NATO allies gather for two days (Nov. 29-30) at the Palace of the Parliament in the Romanian capital Bucharest, addressing ways to step up support for Ukraine. The Bucharest meeting is symbolic for one obvious reason: It takes place in the site of a 2008 summit at which Ukraine and Georgia were both promised they would

United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday (Nov. 17) that she will not be seeking another term as the leader of Democrats in the lower chamber of US Congress,paving the way for a younger generation to take over the party’s top job. Speaking before lawmakers, she stressed that a “new generation” should lead the House Democratic Caucus, expressing confidence that