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President Donald Trump posted optimistically Sunday about the prospect of a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza, a day before he was set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday sacked the U.K. ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, over his links to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump said he wants to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un again during his second term.

You need a licence to do that. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has now heeded those words after admitting he did not have a rod licence to go fishing with visiting U.S. Vice President JD Vance. He blamed the mistake on an “administrative error.”

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack is an accomplished businessman with a long friendship with President Donald Trump. However, his odd stances on recent issues have attracted negative attention.

U.S. President Donald Trump was ready Monday to greet his second official visitor on his five-day trip to Scotland as UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer flew into Turnberry for talks.

Russia formally recognised Taliban rule of Afghanistan on Friday, becoming the first country to bow to the terrorist group since it took control in 2021. Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi hailed it as a “courageous” decision.

President Donald Trump told the New York Post in an interview published Wednesday that he is “much less confident” that the U.S. will be able to reach a nuclear agreement with the Iranian regime.

Israeli negotiators in Doha, Qatar, are currently considering proposals for a deal with Hamas, including a possible agreement to end the war in Gaza with the release of the remaining hostages still in Hamas captivity.

Successful diplomacy can only be negotiated from a position of strength. President Donald Trump honored that credo Thursday when he visited U.S. troops at the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, praising their crucial role in regional security while saluting America’s ongoing commitment to ending – not beginning – conflicts.

Iran indicated Tuesday that it would be willing to accept temporary limits on uranium enrichment as part of a nuclear deal with the U.S. — accepting the same terms that were in President Barack Obama’s deal in 2015.

Donald Trump touched down in Saudi Arabia early Tuesday morning to a warm welcome by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he began the first leg of a whirlwind Gulf tour. Business deals are at the top of the U.S. president’s busy agenda that also takes in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Trump has made moves similar to those Obama made en route to a failed agreement — though Trump’s approach is also different in key ways.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will sit down for more talks Monday in what will be be their second White House head-to-head since Trump’s return to office.

The U.S. government has issued a sweeping diktat prohibiting American diplomats, their families and security-cleared contractors in China from engaging in romance or sex with Chinese citizens.

Communist dictatorships China and Russia are “friends forever, never enemies,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared Tuesday during a visit to Moscow.

Come to the land Down Under and say g’day. That was the message Wednesday from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia, but aren’t meeting each other directly, relying on American shuttle diplomacy.

Washington lawmakers should toughen up, be like their brave French counterparts and challenge President Donald Trump rather than surrendering all the time. So says a French politician from 3,800 miles away in Paris.

Democrats inflated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sense of arrogance and entitlement before Friday’s disastrous Oval Office meeting, with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even calling Zelensky the real leader of the free world.

Top Russian and U.S. officials are readying to meet Tuesday to address a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is bound for Europe next week on his first foreign trip since the inauguration.

A full victory over Hamas terrorism, countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries. These are the three items at the top of the list Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will broach in his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, DC.

The Trump administration has strengthened Israel’s bargaining position in its first week in office vis-à-vis Hamas and Hezbollah, two Iranian-backed terrorist groups that launched a brutal but failed war against Israel in October 2023.

President Donald Trump referred to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un — and, by extension, his country — as a “nuclear power” in remarks to reporters from the Oval Office on Monday.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spent Tuesday in Africa as part of a taxpayer-funded delegation attending the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as Ghana’s president. The Democrat was there as her city battled wildfires and thousands of residents fled for their lives.

First Lady Jill Biden has been showered in gifts while her husband has been in office, receiving donated trifles worth tens of thousands of dollars in 2023 alone including a diamond worth $20,000 from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Moscow will work with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to improve relations on one condition: Washington must make the first move, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared Thursday.

Mark Burnett, the London-born producer who launched Donald Trump to a global television audience with “The Apprentice,” has been tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom.

Nature abhors a vacuum. So does politics. No sooner had President-elect Donald Trump been confirmed as the next occupant of the White House than beleaguered French President Emmanuel Macron sought to invite him to Saturday’s reopening of the magnificently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

First Lady Jill Biden left for an overseas jaunt late Tuesday night to undertake a series of glittering dinners, receptions, diplomatic meetings, drinks, banquets, and a wedding reception. The flying trip ends with her joining President-elect Donald Trump and other dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Brigade-strength Japanese military forces will train alongside U.S. Marines in northern Australia from 2025 onwards it was confirmed during high-level talks hosted in the Northern Territory capital Darwin on Sunday.

Far-left Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of personally attacking him because of his “ethnicity” and Muslim faith, in comments likely to reignite the Labour politician’s long-running and very public antipathy towards the U.S. president-elect.

House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) accepted President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination on Sunday to be ambassador to the United Nations.

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged India to take Canadian allegations of an assassination plot against Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar seriously and cooperate with Canadian investigators.