[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, his first stop in a Middle East tour as Washington tries to advance negotiations on a normalisation deal between the kingdom and Israel, and make progress on talks for postwar Gaza governance. In Riyadh, Blinken met with the kingdom’s de-facto ruler, Crown…
[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was committed to reforming the Palestinian Authority in a way that could “reunite” Gaza and the occupied West Bank under its leadership. In a related development, Egypt and Jordan warned against any Israeli reoccupation in the Gaza Strip Blinken was…
[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler before heading to Israel as part of efforts to stop the Gaza crisis spiralling into a regional conflict. Blinken was expected to discuss Red Sea attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s southern neighbour, during his…
[ad_1] Facing a Mideast region in crisis and several pressing bilateral issues, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan have met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, with issues before them including Israel’s war on besieged Gaza, final steps to complete Türkiye’s ratification of Sweden’s NATO bid, and US Congress approval…
[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Europe’s senior diplomat Josep Borrell began a new diplomatic push on Friday to stop spillover from the Gaza war into Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Red Sea shipping lanes. Their Middle East visits came three months since Hamas militants from Gaza attacked Israel, triggering an offensive that…
[ad_1] Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, died on Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100. “Dr. Henry Kissinger, a respected American scholar and statesman, died today at his home in Connecticut,” Kissinger Associates announced in a statement…
[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday condemned North Korea for sending arms to help the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as he held meetings with top officials in key ally South Korea. The United States, South Korea and Japan have in recent weeks repeatedly criticised Pyongyang for helping Russia pursue its military campaign…
[ad_1] The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to the occupied West Bank on Sunday and met with the Palestinian Authority president as he continued a tour of the region amid spiralling tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. Blinken and Mahmoud Abbas met in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the…
[ad_1] Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Riyadh on Sunday to discuss the current military escalation in Gaza. During the meeting, the crown prince stressed the need to discuss ways to stop the military operations that claimed the lives of innocent people. He affirmed that the…
[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing on Sunday — the first top American diplomat to visit China in five years — amid frosty bilateral ties and dim prospects for any breakthrough on the long list of disputes between the world’s two largest economies. Having postponed a February trip after a suspected…
