The White House

America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Ratification of the 1783 Treaty of Paris

On January 14, 1784, the Second Continental Congress ratified the decisive Treaty of Paris—the binding accord that ended the Revolutionary War, secured ...

EU-Mercosur trade pact signals limits of Trump’s hardball diplomacy in Latin America

A mega trade deal clinched between the European Union and South America’s biggest economies after a quarter-century of talks ...
The Economist

Europe and South America seal a trade pact for the Trump era

T HE EUROPEAN UNION and Mercosur, a bloc of South American countries, first started negotiating their trade deal last century ...

After Venezuela, is the world order shifting from diplomacy towards aggression?

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Peter Krause of Boston College about the Trump Administration's willingness to act ...
Phys.org

Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow

Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to ...
Rolling Stone

Never Mind the Beer Throwing, Here’s Treaty Oak Revival

Sam Canty knows the power of a Treaty Oak Revival concert, but he long ago stopped trying to make any sense of it. “I can’t believe I’m making somebody feel like this or act like this,” says the ...
Taste of Country

Fans Rave Over War + Treaty’s ‘Super Bowl Worthy’ Anthem Performance [Watch]

The War and Treaty promised a "special night" before they took the field to perform the national anthem ahead of the Dallas Cowboys' Monday Night Football game against the Las Vegas raiders on Monday ...
Nature

The world’s first plastics treaty is in crisis: can it be salvaged?

Hopes of securing a United Nations treaty on plastics pollution are fading after the final round of negotiations ended without an agreement. Crucial negotiations on what would have been the first ...
Mongabay

‘Super big deal’: High seas treaty reaches enough ratifications to become law

The agreement on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, also known as the high seas treaty, was reached in 2023 with much fanfare in marine conservation circles, partly because it ...
The New York Times

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas. By Max Bearak The high seas, the vast waters beyond any one ...
The Diplomat

Indus Waters Treaty: From Cooperative Vision to Calculated Confrontation

The Indus Waters Treaty, once described as a treaty that withstood three wars between India and Pakistan, is receiving much flak after being framed as “Nehru’s betrayal of Independent India.” While ...
The Diplomat

Tajikistan Signs Onto Central Asian Friendship Treaty

Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon this week, during a working visit by Kazakh Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu, finally signed the Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness, and Cooperation for the ...