G-7 has now become a ‘Tower of Babel,’ says Lowy Institute’s Lemahieu

The diplomacy around failure must end - Oby Ezekwesili

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday that President Donald Trump supports diplomatic efforts to calm rising tensions with North Korea, saying "diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb is dropped."

Our panel of journalists looks at North Korean delegation headed by high-ranking official Kim Yong Chol delivering a letter to Donald Trump from Kim Jong Un; Some of America's closest allies reaction to the news of tariffs on aluminium and steel imports to the US; Western Europe's first populist government swearing in in Italy; Mariano Rajoy forced from office following a no-confidence vote in parliament; The man dubbed the Malian Spiderman who saved the life of a child in Paris.

Peter Trubowitz, professor of international relations at London School of Economics, discusses how the Trump administration is using sanctions as a key foreign policy and diplomacy tool.

Herve Lemahieu, Asian power and diplomacy program director at Lowy Institute, discusses the trade tensions between the U.S. and China and his takeaways from the G-7 summit. He speaks on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”

The SESAME synchrotron in Jordan is an ambitious scientific, political and social experiment — since way before it even started producing results. DW's Zulfikar Abbany spent a week in the Middle East to find out why.

What have diplomacy, faith, and gender got to do with each other? That's the subject of a conference held by the world’s biggest interreligious non-governmental organization, Religions for Peace, in Lindau, Germany.

China is positioning itself as a champion of free trade while taking an aggressive stance against countries seen as challenging its interests, such as Australia. But this could affect China's image.

Moon Jae-in called on the US president-elect to continue talks with North Korea. Talks between Trump and Kim Jong Un stalled earlier over sanctions and limited progress on the North's nuclear program.

Wealthy countries were quick to snatch up Covid-19 vaccines from Western companies, leaving low-income ones to look elsewhere. Enter China and India. Both nations are racing to fill international orders of their locally-made vaccines, though sometimes strings are attached. For more, we speak to Yanzhong Huang from the Council on Foreign Relations.

India's government has been supplying countries around the world with free coronavirus vaccine doses. However, there is some worry that this "vaccine diplomacy" will come at a cost to vulnerable Indians.

The White House says Joe Biden is aiming for a realistic approach towards North Korea's denuclearization rather than his predecessor's "grand bargain" strategy.