Pakistan and Afghanistan are neighbors with some difficult issues to work out.  Well, over the weekend, the leaders of the two countries met, but it wasn't your usual diplomatic encounter.  hey call it cricket diplomacy. If you're not getting along with your neighbors, invite them over for a game.

Amid the worst Ebola outbreak of our time, it has been the small island nation of Cuba that has provided arguably the most impressive policy response. Cuba's government has a long history of providing universal healthcare as a human right, a belief that was enshrined in the 1976 constitution.

“Culture does not have border and both Pakistan and Afghanistan have strong cultural relations,” the adviser said while inaugurating the two-day show organised by Pak-Afghan Culture Forum in collaboration with the provincial government.

Georgian Ambassador Nikoloz Apkhazava is pursuing wine diplomacy, hosting his fifth tasting event Tuesday since opening the country’s chancery in 2012.  Wine goes hand in glove in the popular imagination of diplomatic work but, for the Georgian envoy, it is also a down-to-earth policy objective of his posting in South Korea. 

Europe’s strongest economy, Germany, has vowed to boost cooperation with Indonesia in various sectors as it deems the latter to have preserved peace during this year’s elections, according to an envoy.  "Many Indonesian artists have gone to Germany to perform. This is reciprocal. That's the result of our strong cooperation in culture." 

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