Putin, Xi pledge friendship but talks yield no Ukraine breakthrough
Reuters Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin emerged from two days of talks on Tuesday with warm words of friendship between China and Russia and joint criticism of the West, but no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough over Ukraine. Xi’s visit to Moscow – long touted by the Kremlin as a show of support from its […]
ASEAN leaders call for timeline on Myanmar peace
Phnom Penh, CambodiaReuters South-East Asian heads of government on Friday issued a “warning” to Myanmar to make measurable progress on a peace plan or risk being barred from the bloc’s meetings, as social and political chaos escalates in the country. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations said that after “little progress” on the five-point peace […]
Essay: Mali’s roadmap for lasting peace has laudable goals; but it doesn’t go far enough
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEPHEN L ESQUITH, professor of political theory and global ethics at Michigan State University, evaulates recent efforts for peace in Mali…
World Council of Churches critical of Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East
The World Council of Churches has criticised US President Donald Trump’s proposal for dividing Israel and Palestine as “an ultimatum, not a path to peace”. The US President, joined at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced his plan on Tuesday. It creates a Palestinian state with a capital including areas of […]
US evangelicals embrace Trump’s Middle East peace plan, saying it recognises the Bible “as legal”
RNS To many evangelicals and ardent Christian Zionists, God promised the land of Israel to the Jews and to the Jews alone. The belief comes, at least in part, from the Book of Genesis which recounts of the covenant God made with Abraham: “The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I […]
US to unveil “economy first” approach to Mideast peace at Bahrain conference
Manama,Bahrain/JerusalemReuters The first stage of President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan will be launched in Bahrain on Tuesday at a conference the White House touts as a bid to drum up $US50 billion in investment but which Palestinians deride as an “economy first” approach doomed to fail. The two-day international meeting, led by Trump’s […]