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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Blinken: US to Run for Human Rights Council Seat; Worst Rights-Abusers ‘Should Not Be Members’
Patrick Goodenough | February 25, 2021
An employee in the canteen at Facebook’s London headquarters. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images)
EU Signals Interest in Australian-Style Revenue-Sharing Rules Against Facebook, Google
James Carstensen | February 24, 2021
The frozen Iranian assets and seized Korean ship featured during talks between Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif and South Korea’s first vice foreign minister Choi Jong Ku in Tehran on January 11. (Photo: Iran MFA)
Iran, S. Korea Near Deal to Release Iranian Funds Frozen Due to US Sanctions
Patrick Goodenough | February 24, 2021
French Higher Education, Research and Innovation Minister Frederique Vidal. (Photo by Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)
French Higher Ed. Minister Tries to Quell Uproar Over Remarks on ‘Islamo-Leftism’ on Campuses
Fayçal Benhassain | February 23, 2021
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)
At Human Rights Council, China Calls US Claims of Xinjiang Genocide ‘Malicious and Politically-Driven’
Patrick Goodenough | February 23, 2021
Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro dons a mask after a press conference in Caracas last week. (Photo by Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)
UN Human Rights Council Gives Maduro a Platform: ‘Your Excellency, You Have The Floor’
Patrick Goodenough | February 23, 2021
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Munich Security Conference in 2019. This year President Biden addressed the MSC virtually. (Photo by Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images)
EU Leaders React Positively to Biden’s Speech But Deep Differences Remain
James Carstensen | February 22, 2021
Signs of racial unrest in the Brooklyn Borough of New York on July 25, 2020, USA. (Photo by Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)
UN Human Rights Council to Address ‘Systemic Racism’ in US, But Not Abuses in China or Russia
Patrick Goodenough | February 22, 2021
Climate change special envoy John Kerry beams into the Munich Security Conference ‘special edition’ on Saturday. (Photo: MSC)
Kerry: We’re in the 'Decisive Decade' for Climate; Thanks to Trump, We Wasted 3 Years
Patrick Goodenough | February 22, 2021
Then-Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, photographed in New York in 2016, led their respective negotiating teams in the talks that produced the JCPOA. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran Responds to US Talks Offer: If You Want to Return to Nuclear Deal, First Lift All Sanctions
Patrick Goodenough | February 21, 2021
The Trump administration imposed strict limits on the movements of Iranian diplomats, including Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, at the U.N. in New York in 2019. They have now been lifted. (Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images) The letter sent to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. (Image: Twitter/@PamelaFalk)
Biden Makes 3 ‘Concessions’ to Iranian Regime as Administration Looks to Re-Engage
Patrick Goodenough | February 19, 2021
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg briefs press on the virtual meeting of defense ministers, in Brussels on Thursday. (Photo by Virginia Mayo/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
‘Cold War Mentality’: Beijing Irked by China Focus at NATO, Quad, and G7 Meetings
Patrick Goodenough | February 19, 2021
Tendayi Achiume, the U.N.’s “special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe)
UN Expert Tells Lawmakers US ‘Not Exempt’ From Int’l Obligations to Make Reparations For Slavery
Patrick Goodenough | February 18, 2021
President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday night. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
On Refugee Numbers, Biden Makes 3 Errors in 12 Seconds
Patrick Goodenough | February 18, 2021
International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi is planning an urgent visit to Iran this weekend. (Photo by Alex Halada/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran to Walk Away From Another Key Nuclear Commitment, Won’t Allow Snap IAEA Inspections
James Carstensen | February 17, 2021
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