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British ambassador Peter Mendelson is fired the same week as 10 new ambassadors present their credentials in a White House ...
On Sept. 9, Ethiopia will officially inaugurate its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). It represents a national ethos, ...
Ambassador Serge Mombouli, the longest-serving African envoy to the United States, representing the Republic of Congo, died ...
As President Biden remarked at the recent G7 summit to fellow world leaders “America is back.” While the United States is seeking to deepen relationship around the world, digital diplomacy has a ...
On Wednesday, July 26, the National Council on US-Arab Relations hosted a welcome reception at the Four Seasons in Washington, for Ambassador Al-Zain Al-Sabah, the newly appointed Ambassador of Kuwait ...
EU Ambassador Jovita Neliupšienė hosts the Transatlantic Bridge Awards on May 7. When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the ...
Haflin Nazri Aziz, wife of Malaysian Ambassador Mohamed Nazri Aziz, sits in her Washington DC residence. Behind the many ambassadors who are busy representing their countries in the United States are ...
Many in the United States look beyond their borders and see a dangerous world with raging wars, surging violence and deepening instability. But a new report by the Eurasia Group, a leading political ...
Dutch-speaking Suriname is the smallest independent nation in South America. Rainforests cover 94% of its area, and its biodiversity is exceeded only by its ethnic richness—an unusual mix of East ...
Mosaic glass tiles, dated 100 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution) Tucked in a corridor of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, a small and exquisitely arranged display ...
Esme Chombo has been Malawi's ambassador to the United States since Jan. 1, 2022. (Photo by The Washington Diplomat) If Americans have heard of Malawi at all, it’s likely because singer and actress ...
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a think tank funded by the federal government, focuses on conflict resolution in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and other global hotspots. (Photo by Larry ...