The head of the Afghan national army wants to build a replica of the Royal Military Academy, which has been churning out officers for the British army since 1741. In Kabul the idea has already won the approval of American and British commanders. President Hamid Karzai now has to sign off the idea.

The Queen is poised to become the first British monarch to visit the Republic of Ireland. From the War of Independence to the Northern Ireland issue, the Anglo-Irish relationship has been troubled. It is hoping her visit will restore confidence in the Republic and boost its economic recovery.

Presence Switzerland has issued a £100,000 brief for an agency to increase the country's visibility to numerous audiences. The successful agency will also be asked to focus attention on the House of Switzerland, the country's official guesthouse.

The Tunisian and Egyptian regimes fell faster than anyone could have expected. But it also took longer than anyone should have imagined. Where opposition groups in Eastern Europe came to count on Western support, in the Arab world, they often found themselves standing alone.

This three-day event, organized by the Secretary of State’s Global Partnership Initiative in collaboration with USAID and the Migration Policy Institute, brings together over 300 leaders from diaspora communities across the country to discuss and collaborate on projects related to development and diplomacy with their countries of origin.

Take a look at Barack Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo.... The beautiful words were seen to have been built on air, not on a foundation of policy. Arabs are a tough audience. They’ve heard it all before: blueprints, roadmaps, promises about this and that. And yet nothing ever seemed to change…until they took matters into their own hands.

Israeli embassy in Panama is issuing a four-part magazine series entitled “Israel: 63 years of constant progress”. The first 30-page installment arrived last week with the morning La Prensa and dealt with typical cultural themes such as hummus, shawarma, and the coexistence in the Israeli democratic “oasis” of various ethnicities enjoying equal rights.

“Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather they hate our policies…when American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy” in light of the U.S. record of blocking democracy in the region.