South Africa’s foreign policy under Ramaphosa emphasises economic diplomacy and ‘progressive internationalism’, which promotes global equity and ending the dominance of the global north.
United Nations General Assembly: overwhelming condemnation of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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A UN resolution condemning the war passed with an overwhelming majority. But there is little consensus about how to cease hostilities.
Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born German revolutionary and co-founder of the German Communist Party, addressing a meeting in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1907. She was assassinated in January 1919.
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Antisemitism has been used as a weapon against leading Jewish politicians in Europe for over a century – no matter how assimilated they were. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is no exception.
Cordial relations: Eritrean foreign minister Osman Saleh shakes hands with Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, Mosclw, April 2022.
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Russia and the west have failed to see eye-to-eye over Ukraine. It’s a disconnect that goes back two decades or more.
A live broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking is shown on Dec. 23, 2021, from a media control room in Russia.
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America is being ‘hysterical’ about Russian troop buildups near the Ukrainian border. That’s the official news in Russia, where citizens are getting government’s preferred view of the Ukraine crisis.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson head to a meeting in Moscow.
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What vastly complicates Western policy in Syria is how to sanction Assad on one hand and deal with Islamic State on the other, without the country unravelling completely.
Russia’s relationship with the West is on a knife edge after the US bombing of Syria. But the ghosts of Cold War past have lessons for today’s political leaders.
After a missile hit in Damascus.
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Why there’s a slender – a very slender – chance for working out a settlement at upcoming talks in New York.
From the jaws: the last-ditch agreement signed in Geneva has, for the moment, made further bloodshed unlikely.
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The four-party talks on the crisis in Ukraine have apparently produced a significant breakthrough towards the diffusion of an increasingly dangerous situation. According to a statement released by the…
Negotiations: Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry hammering out a deal on Syria.
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The Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has announced it is sending a second team of weapons inspectors to Syria where, director-general Ahmet Üzümcü reports, destruction of al-Assad’s…