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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating 100 years of Irish independence with a three-week festival featuring more than 50 performances and the participation of more
If you want to see what gentrification looks like in Washington in 2016, take a ride over to the intersection of Florida Avenue and 5th Street in Northeast. There, on
Languages Danish French Korean Dutch Hindi Mandarin English Italian Spanish Farsi Japanese Danish Men & Chicken Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark/Germany, 2016, 100 min.) A pair of socially challenged
In May 1916, European powers ratified the Asia Minor Agreement, better known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, to partition the collapsing Ottoman Empire between British, French and Russian spheres of influence.
Amid increasingly chaotic scenes of Syrian refugees fleeing violence at home and Balkan nations hastily throwing up fences to keep out the never-ending influx, the Washington-based ambassadors of four European
Imagine receiving a diamond-and-emerald jewelry set or a gem-encrusted sword and not being able to keep them. That’s just part of the job for the president of the United States.
Information about the Syrian civil war, now in its sixth year, remains elusive. Even the death count is a mystery. The figure that has been ubiquitously quoted is 250,000 (the
C. Patricia “Pat” Alsup is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Accra, Ghana from 2012-2015. Prior
Pierre Clive Agius, a career member of Malta’s Foreign Service, presented his credentials as ambassador to President Barack Obama on March 2, 2016. Agius was born October, 21, 1965, son
Valeriy Chaly became ambassador of Ukraine to the United States on Aug. 3, 2015. In June 2014, Ambassador Chaly was appointed deputy head of the administration of President Petro Poroshenko
In May 2017, President Juan Manuel Santos appointed Camilo Reyes Ambassador of Colombia to the United States. Prior to being named Ambassador, Reyes was Executive Director of the Colombian American
