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During a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority refrained from displaying an American flag behind the U.S. official in a move that was seen as “humiliating” for the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that he trusts Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas to “reform” the PA so that it can take over governing functions in Gaza at the end of Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists there.

Sixty heads of state and government are packing their bags and readying to fly into the luxury Swiss mountain resort of Davos ahead of the next World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting that begins Monday.

The failed pre-Trump approach has evidently continued to guide Biden administration policy, even in the aftermath of October 7.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed the Biden administration’s priority of establishing a Palestinian state at the end of the current war against Hamas in his meetings with Israeli leaders on Tuesday, according to multiple media reports.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) immediately criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken for once again leaving Nigeria off the State Department’s annual list of “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) for religious oppression. 

Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon drew closer to war Monday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to arrive in Israel on Monday evening.

An assessment reportedly found the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the U.S. used an American internet service provider to communicate.

Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hinted to a U.S. delegation that he will reduce migration to the United States if liberal President Joe Biden gives more aid and support to Latin American dictators.

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 29,000 migrants during the extended Christmas weekend. While most American families enjoyed the celebrations of Christmas with family and friends, Border Patrol agents stayed to their tasks of processing, transporting, caring for, and eventually releasing thousands of migrants pushed across the border by human smuggling cartels.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked Thursday why the world was pressuring the victim of terror, Israel, instead of pressuring the terrorist “aggressor,” Hamas, whose surrender would end the war in Gaza and save the lives of many Palestinian civilians.

Sources in the shipping industry told Reuters on Thursday they are “in the dark” about the Biden administration’s new Operation Prosperity Garden, a multinational effort to protect Red Sea shipping from terrorist attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken “welcomed” remarks by the Prime Minister of Iraq that he would investigate an attack on the U.S. embassy.

During an interview with CNN aired on Wednesday’s “King Charles,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged that Israel is designating safe areas in the southern part of Gaza but “there’s more that has to happen, that needs to be done,

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to a question on reporting that Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel it doesn’t have the “credit”

In 2014, then-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rose to the floor of the U.S. Senate to give a 24-minute speech denouncing Antony Blinken, nominated by President Barack Obama to be Deputy Secretary of State, as “dangerous to America.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel that it lacks “credit” to conduct the kind of military campaign necessary to defeat Hamas, saying that the Biden administration would not tolerate large-scale bombing over months in southern Gaza.

Israel and Hamas extended their truce into a seventh day at the last minute, with a deal that will see Hamas release eight hostages to Israel and the bodies of three hostages who died (or were murdered) in Hamas custody.

Trump alumni at America First Legal representing Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) won a court order forcing Biden to disclose American taxpayer money funding Hamas terrorists at war with Israel.

The China National Narcotics Control Commission announced on Friday that the Biden administration has lifted sanctions against the Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) at China’s Ministry of Public Security.

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded to polling showing increasing American criticism of Israel’s military response to the October 7 attack by saying that while he understands why people are heartbroken

U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday, requesting an update on what legal actions the U.S. Department of Justice and State Department have taken toward the arrest and extradition of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro since 2021.

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he still regards Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a “dictator,” prompting a testy response from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which denounced Biden’s remarks as an “irresponsible political maneuver” without explaining why Xi should be considered in any different light.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Senior White House Correspondent MJ Lee reported that President Joe Biden almost started revealing too much sensitive information about negotiations over the hostages held by Hamas during his press conference that day, and

An Al Jazeera reporter abruptly terminated an interview with a wounded Gaza resident who began criticizing Hamas.

U.S. officials said on Monday that President Joe Biden will try to convince Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to restore communications between the American and Chinese military commands during their meeting in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called for pressure on the United States to stop Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused North Korea of “growing and dangerous military cooperation with Russia” during a visit to South Korea on Thursday, urging communist China — a top ally to both Pyongyang and Moscow — to “play a constructive role” in reducing tensions.

Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, on Tuesday demanded Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani put an end to Iran-backed Shiite militia attacks on bases housing U.S. personnel.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Wednesday laid out the U.S. vision for a post-war future in Gaza, urging Israel not to reoccupy the area before conceding there may be a “transition period.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday for a previously unannounced meeting that ended by posing more questions than it answered about the Gaza Strip’s future.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) argued that the Biden administration needs “to push” Israel “even harder,” on protecting Palestinians “which is why I was glad that Secretary Blinken was in Israel today, really

Lawmakers from Albania’s center-right opposition Democratic Party disrupted a session of the legislature on Thursday by tossing firecrackers, building chair barricades, and physically confronting members of the governing Socialist Party. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his nation on Friday evening that he had refused the Biden administration’s request for a “pause” in fighting, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted there is no way to guarantee that Hamas will not seize some of the U.S. aid sent to Gaza.

Antony Blinken dressed his four-year-old son as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a White House Halloween party on Monday night.