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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, after meeting Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said Pakistan is critical for the long-term stability of South Asia. “Not just Afghanistan, but it is the importance of Pakistan and Pakistan’s long-term stability as well,” he remarked while speaking about US’s policy towards South Asia.
Africa’s leaders, along with everyone else interested in US-Africa relations, have waited eight months for US President Donald Trump’s administration to explain its Africa policy. We aren’t there yet. But in recent weeks Trump has indicated the level and extent of his interest. And, senior African affairs officials at the State and Defence Departments are at last attempting publicly to outline US goals and objectives toward Africa. This, apparently without much guidance from their president.
Mr. Chika Sylva-Olejeme, Chief Mentorship Officer of the National Mentorship Office of Nigeria, on Tuesday will lead a delegation of key stakeholders of the new National Mentorship Programme of Nigeria to a high-level meeting at the US Department of Commerce (USDoC) to establishment guaranteed support for prospective U.S. mentor companies within the National Expatriate Mentorship Strategy (NEMS).
The first of this week's Pax Christi's seminars on the theme of 'Nonviolence Works!' has taken place in South London at the Amigo Hall of St George's Cathedral. Around 50 people heard a panel of speakers pick up on the words of Pope Francis in his 2017 World Peace Day message that nonviolence is 'a style of politics for peace'. They explored what this might mean in practice, building on the work of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative. This is a project of Pax Christi International, launched at the 'Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference' held in Rome April 11-13, 2016 and co-sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Pax Christi International, and other international bodies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit China this fall, in a rare trip abroad that would undermine Kremlin excuses for his absence from other high-profile summits. “He now feels that he cannot go almost anywhere,” Dr. Sergey Radchenko, an expert in the history of Russian and Chinese...
During the August 5 crisis at Second Thomas Shoal, the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs tried to contact its Chinese counterparts through a bilateral hotline. Manila’s effort to de-escalate the standoff despite...
Russia has accused Ukraine of the largest drone attack on Russian soil since the war began. William Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, joins CBS News to examine what the move...
China issued a condemnation of retired Indian military officials over a recent visit to Taiwan, adding to a flaring pattern of disputes between the communist power and India that complicate Beijing's plans to undercut the...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hopes of meeting Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s G20 summit appear to have been dashed, with the Chinese president expected to...
Mohammad Yunis has faced a slew of legal cases, and now is accused of siphoning off dividends owed to workers, labor law violations and corruption. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is often called the banker to the poor. He founded the...