The latest crop of 14 new ambassadors in Washington includes diplomats from two former Soviet republics, two Caribbean nations, three African countries and three Arab ones.

Isabelle Vladiou knows painfully well what happens when a dictatorship abuses its people. Born in Romania in the aftermath of ...

Diplomats and the creative industries collided in Washington last month for Meridian International Center's fifth edition of ...

A new show at Washington’s Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens delivers an exquisite look at Princess Natalie Paley.

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 ...

Ramdin seems especially well-suited for the job, which takes effect May 25 and runs until 2030, with the possibility of a five-year extension. After serving as Suriname’s permanent representative to ...

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 ...

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 ...