When Lithuania’s Jovita Neliupšienė was born in 1980, in the city of Panevėžys, her country was still part of the Soviet Union, and Donald Trump was a rising Manhattan real-estate developer. Back then ...

Ramadan brought together Washington diplomats, cultural organizations and government sectors for a month of evening iftar feasts in accordance with Muslim tradition. Celebrated by nearly two billion ...

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 ...

Foreign embassies around the nation’s capital welcomed the second Trump administration into office with a series of celebrations leading up to the Jan. 20 inauguration of the 47th president. On Jan.

On a cold, blustery day, the Winternational Embassy Showcase returned to Washington for its 11th annual celebration of culture, customs and economic trade among nations. Thousands of visitors filled ...

I know the saying because sometimes I’ve said it myself: Washington is broken. Nothing good gets done. It’s getting more tied up in unnecessary red tape. Well, that’s wrong. A few days ago, the Biden ...

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 ...

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, with a ceasefire proving to be elusive, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations, ...

Prominent scientist, diplomat, conservationist, artist and poet Joseph Edsel Edmunds, a former ambassador of St. Lucia to the United States, died July 21 at the age of 89. With just 180,000 people, St ...

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 ...

A message from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, congratulating Somaliland on its independence on June 26, 1960. (Screenshot) Goth is optimistic that the United States will eventually come ...

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 ...