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It is not a question of whether the shelter-in-place warning will happen again, but when....

The UN General Assembly hosts a much-watched debate of world leaders each year but has struggled to make its work more substantive. After an unprecedented all-virtual assembly in 2020, this year’s meeting partially returned to an in-person format.

U.S. Presidents once condemned Israel’s civilian massacres and threatened sanctions over its occupation of Egyptian lands. The U.S. political mood changed swiftly after the ’67 war. But it could change back again in the wake of apartheid reports.

Dec 16, 2021, was an important milestone as the date marked 75 years of Thailand's membership in the United Nations. It is a cause for celebration -- of our long history as a sovereign nation and as a respected member of the international community.

Today is the 307th day of 2021. There are 58 days left in the year. TODAYS HIGHLIGHT...

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Two historical things have happened recently which have been passed off as non entity because it hurt the business interest of the powerful nations. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to form an International inquiry commission to investigate, ‘ “grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East…

By Bola A. Akinterinwa The word polemology, is the English translation for the French word polémologie, coined from the Greek words, polemos, meaning war, and from logos, meaning discourse or study. Polemology therefore simply means the study, or more precisely, the science of war. A French school of thought has differentiated between a crisis and a conflict in a study of all the wars since the 1770s. The fundamental difference between crisis and conflict is that a crisis is the beginning of a...

This past week we celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, marking the 54th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification. Yom Yerushalayim usually falls out before or after we read Parshat Bamidbar which opens with a census, a counting of the Jewish people.  I always wondered whether there was some kind of connection, some thematic link, between the day we celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem in modernity and the counting of the Jewish people in the wilderness.  Given the barrage of rocket attacks t...

Posted on March 2nd, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS  SWRD Bandaranaike made an impact on the international scene and brought honor and recognition to his country, said VLB Mendis.  His untimely death two years after assuming office, deprived the country of an astute leader who could have played a major role  in  international  affairs said Bandu de Silva. Bandaranaike first made an impact in India. SWRD led the Sri Lanka delegation to the Asian Regional Conference held in N...

The thin blue line The initiator and overseer of the UN’s peacekeeping operations was 101 W HEN HE CAME to, Brian Urquhart found himself lying on the floor of a truck full of drug-high commandos. His nose was broken and streaming blood, and he was bruised from a thorough pummelling with rifle butts. Much of his clothing seemed to be missing. Every so often, one of the boots around him would administer a kick. He seized the nearest; it happened to belong to the squad commander, and they fell t...