Antony Blinken
15 May
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Sunday for a "credible" investigation into the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as he offered condolences to her family
25 Apr
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin travelled to Kyiv Sunday, the first visit by high-level American representatives to Ukraine since Russia invaded, US officials said.
23 Apr
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Iran on Saturday to release an American citizen he said has been held for years as a "political pawn," as the nations inch toward restoration of a nuclear deal.
19 Apr
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed Tuesday to Panama on a new diplomatic bid to check migration in Latin America, a rising cause of political headaches despite the global focus on Ukraine. The top US diplomat's two-day trip, his first to Latin America this year, comes weeks before President Joe Biden's administration ends pandemic…
12 Apr
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has said that limiting global warming and avoiding the worst-case scenarios of the climate crisis remains possible if we rapidly reduce global emissions this decade.
27 Mar
The US and Israel are committed to ensure Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday, as the allies acknowledged differences over negotiations with Tehran. Blinken made the comments in Jerusalem alongside his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid, who told reporters Israel had "disagreements" with Washington about a possible deal…
26 Mar
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flies to Israel Saturday as the Ukraine war rages, aiming to rally regional support for Kyiv and quell the Jewish state's worries about a looming nuclear deal with Iran.
26 Mar
Joe Biden on Saturday prepared to meet in Warsaw with two Ukrainian ministers in the first face-to-face meeting between the US president and top Kyiv officials since Russia's invasion began.
22 Mar
Myanmar's junta on Tuesday said it "categorically rejects" a United States declared that the military committed genocide against the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority.
5 Mar
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Poland on Saturday for talks with officials as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees pour into the country to escape the conflict.
12 Feb
The United States plans to re-establish an embassy in the Solomon Islands, a senior State Department official said Saturday, as Washington seeks to beef up its presence in a region where China is rapidly expanding its influence.
14 Jan
North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile eastward, South Korean and Japanese officials said Friday, the nuclear-armed country's third suspected weapons test in just over a week.