Feinsteinâs Future Could Swing on Husbandâs Potential Posting Overseas
Senator Dianne Feinsteinâs husband, Richard Blum, is seeking an overseas posting, which could pave the way for her to leave the Senate. She said she would âabsolutelyââ serve out her term.
Senator Dianne Feinstein accompanied by her husband, Richard Blum, during a mock swearing-in ceremony on Capitol Hill in 2019.Credit.Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press
March 16, 2021
WASHINGTON â Richard Blum, a wealthy investor and the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, has indicated to President Bidenâs advisers that heâs interested in being appointed to an ambassadorship, a move that would renew questions about Ms. Feinsteinâs political future.
After Coup in Myanmar, a Career Diplomat Takes a Stand
At the United Nations, U Kyaw Moe Tun declared his new military masters illegitimate. They fired him, but he has no intention of leaving.
“I wanted to do something with maximum impact,” U Kyaw Moe Tun said of his Feb. 26 speech at the United Nations, where he denounced the generals now ruling Myanmar.Credit.Celeste Sloman for The New York Times
Published March 6, 2021Updated March 11, 2021
He knew his voice was quavering. But U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s top envoy at the United Nations, kept going. The military rulers who had overthrown Myanmar’s elected government and gunned down peaceful protesters were illegitimate, he said.
U.N. Says 38 Are Killed in Myanmar in âBloodiest Dayâ Since Coup Began
As the militaryâs crackdown against demonstrators grows more deadly, the U.N.âs special representative for the country said the junta had rejected her requests to visit.
Family and relatives mourned a man who had been shot and killed by the security forces during a crackdown on Wednesday against protesters on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.Credit.The New York Times
Published March 3, 2021Updated March 5, 2021
At least 38 people were killed in Myanmar on Wednesday, the biggest one-day toll in a worsening repression of anti-coup protests, the United Nations special representative for the country said.
On the Front Lines of Diplomacy, but at the Back of the Line for a Vaccine
State Department officials overseas expressed anger and disappointment that diplomats in Washington were being vaccinated before those in more perilous posts.
“Until the department is able to provide vaccines to posts like Pristina, the impact of the pandemic to health, welfare and productivity will remain profound,” Philip S. Kosnett, the American ambassador in Pristina, Kosovo, wrote last week.Credit.Emre Tazegul/Associated Press
Feb. 24, 2021
WASHINGTON In the best of times, working at the United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo, was always difficult: Pollution, poor electricity, unreliable internet service and a substandard health system there rendered it a hardship post for American diplomats.