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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 ...
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 ...
Gustavo Petro, 62, is a former M-19 guerrillero who in 1985 was captured and tortured by the army, served 18 months in prison, eventually went into politics and in 2022 won election as the 34th ...
The annual American Middle Eastern Inauguration Celebration was held on Jan. 18 (Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan). Foreign embassies around the nation’s capital welcomed the second Trump administration ...
The 11th edition of Winternational Embassy Showcase was held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Dec. 5. (Kaveh Sardari/Sardari Group,Inc.) On a cold, blustery day, the ...
A few days ago, the Biden administration made a little-noticed but highly significant change. And that change can have a profound and wonderful effect on global education, something that is important ...
Sweden’s Jan Eliasson is one of the most skilled and respected diplomats of his generation. He soared through the ranks of Swedish diplomacy, from advising prime ministers and foreign ministers, to ...
Greek students on strike rally in favor of Palestine during an April 2024 anti-government demonstration in Athens. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Diplomat: Has the support you enjoy from a multitude of ...
St. Lucia's former ambassador to the United States, Joseph Edsel Edmunds, displays his acrylic paintings at Art Impact USA’s first annual International 2016 Art Exhibition in Washington DC. Edmunds, ...
Washington boasts two clubs on the 11 Most Exclusive Private Clubs in America list, created by Los Angeles-based consultancy Club Marketing. One of these, the University Club, about a half mile north ...
The French Embassy in Washington in May celebrated two pivotal events in France’s – and the world’s – history: the 79 th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the 80 th anniversary of ...
Bashir Goth, the ‘ambassador’ for Somaliland in Washington, D.C., points to the unrecognized country on a map in his office. Somaliland lies across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen, near the entrance to ...