The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis Championship—got a surprise invitation from their Chinese ...

Late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad was a masterful negotiator, fiercely protective of his image and reputation. He was ...

We knew that the meeting had been made possible by the encounters between the American and Chinese ping-pong teams the year before. Although what happened in 1971 at the world ping-pong championships ...

The season 3 finale of "The White Lotus" recently aired — with the episode featuring the "pong pong tree," a plant with fruit so poisonous that it is nicknamed "the suicide tree." While viewers ...

By casting doubt on the world order, Donald Trump risks dragging the globe back into an era where great powers impose their ...

Advertisement Advertisement In short, the atmosphere was ripe for escalation, not diplomacy. Yet Trump’s all-purpose envoy, Steve Witkoff, is set to be joined by Iran’s top diplomat ...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas said on Monday it was studying the proposal it received from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, adding it will submit its response “as soon as possible.” Egypt earlier received ...

(Reuters) – A legal advocacy group on Monday asked the U.S. Court of International Trade to block President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners, arguing that the president ...