Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S. was no longer welcome in the country, while calling him a “race-baiting” politician who hates America and President Donald Trump after he said the commander-in-chief is leading a global White supremacist movement. On Thursday, South African Ambassador Embrahim Rasool addressed the Mapungubwe […]
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Question on Jeffrey Epstein ties prompts reported foul-mouthed response from new UK ambassador to US
London’s new ambassador to Washington, D.C., had an R-rated response to a reporter who asked about his former ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the suspected sex trafficker who died in jail in 2019. Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party politician and member of the UK’s House of Lords, reportedly told an interviewer from the Financial Times to […]
Slovakia summons Ukrainian ambassador over Zelensky’s criticism of Russian gas purchases
The Slovak Foreign Ministry summoned Ukrainian Ambassador to Bratislava Myroslav Kastran on Jan. 29 after Kyiv criticized the country’s Prime Minister Robert Fico for wanting to continue Russian gas supplies to Slovakia, it said on social media. The move came as relations between Fico and President Volodymyr Zelensky have become increasingly tense over this month. […]
A Former Ambassador
Long shot, sure it is; but the risk is worth the gamble; and the results could once again help make cooperation for the future of the Western Hemisphere a hallmark of U.S. leadership and serious progress…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-pickering/cuba-the-path-ahead_b_6423000.html