KULTARANTA, Finland -- To those unfamiliar with the Nordic diplomatic calendar, the 'Kultaranta Talks'might sound like an elegant summer gathering. In reality, they have become the “Davos of Baltic geopolitics.” Hosted every June at the Finnish President's summer residence in Naantali,the event is a unique forum where foreign policy strips away its ceremonial armor to address global crises with absolute candor over two intense days.

 ROME – Spanish hungercrat Alvaro Lario’s bid to be re-elected as president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for a second term has been thrown into doubt after complaints by staff and diplomats that he connived to promote his alleged lover to be chief strategy officer and protected the agency's managing director from multiple denunciations of abuse of authority, IFAD sources say.

 TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian fans watched Ilia Topuria fight at the White House on a night of high expectations and eventual disappointment, as American fighter Justin Gaethje defeated the favourite from the Caucasus in a huge upset to become the undisputed UFC lightweight champion at UFC Freedom 250 in Washington D.C.

 ROME -- A War on Women, the new documentary film by Iranian-Canadian director and writer, Raha Shirazi, takes us beyond the attention-grabbing headlines of the current war in Iran to understand both the history and context of a powerful and ongoing resistance to the current regime.