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Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei Rudenko arrived in Beijing on Sunday for talks with China’s foreign minister Qin Gang just hours after it was confirmed paramilitary supporters of warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin had curtailed their march on Moscow.

The United States ambassador to Poland waved an outsized U.S. flag high above his head as he marched in the annual pride parade Saturday that wound its way through Warsaw’s streets.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday as America’s top diplomat concluded a flying two-day visit to Beijing.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Beijing early Sunday morning to begin the highest-level trip by a U.S. official to China in nearly five years.

Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies will be joined at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Japan on Sunday by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The future USS Canberra (LCS 30) will join the U.S. Navy active fleet on July 22 with the service’s first international commissioning ceremony destined to be held Down Under on the waters of Sydney Harbor.

President Joe Biden is reportedly trying to pick up where President Donald Trump left off and achieve a Saudi-Israeli peace deal by the end of the year — despite his administration’s record of snubbing the Saudi kingdom.

President Joe Biden will visit Sydney next month for the first meeting of Quad leaders on Australian soil.

A U.S. Embassy diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan on Monday with local paramilitary groups blamed for the assault. No injuries have been reported.

China encroaching on Taiwan, France undermining U.S. support in Europe, Pentagon secret intel leaks. But Biden is busy having fun in Ireland.

Russia’s rise to the presidency of the U.N. Security Council this month is not an April Fool’s joke, Moscow’s delegate to the globalist organization indignantly declared Monday.

The U.S. State Department’s second Summit for Democracy, running from Tuesday to Thursday this week, was a disappointing affair — snubbed outright by Pakistan and mocked by the rising authoritarian powers of China and Russia.

The left-wing government of Honduras formally established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on Sunday after abandoning eight decades of support for Taiwan. The Chinese Communist government gloated over the announcement and warned that its campaign to diplomatically isolate Taiwan is not over.

The United Arab Emirates is said to be mulling a downgrade in its diplomatic ties with Israel over statements by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s denying the existence of a Palestinian people, according to the Saudi-owned Arabic Elaph outlet.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides has come under intense scrutiny for dictating to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on how to run his government, and in particular, his — and the Biden administration’s — open contempt for the proposal to reform Israel’s left-leaning judiciary.

The British government has pleaded with Communist dictator Xi Jinping to ask Vladimir Putin to stop “some” of the atrocities Russia is alleged to be inflicting on Ukraine on his trip to Moscow.

Netanyahu is said to have instructed several government ministers they were not allowed to take meetings in the White House until he had received a formal invitation there himself, amid a months-long snub by President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden has failed to extend an invitation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House for “a number of reasons,” a senior Israeli official said over the weekend, adding Washington would be in a better position to provide an explanation for the ongoing snub.

Israel on Wednesday slammed as “disgraceful” a vote taken by the South African parliament to downgrade ties with Jerusalem. “The symbolic resolution taken yesterday by the South African Parliament calling for the downgrading of relations between South Africa and Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will ask his Italian counterpart to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital, prompting immediate backing from Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

More than 80 House Democrats have signed a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday calling on him to meddle in Israel’s internal affairs and “use all diplomatic tools available” to compel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop advancing his government’s contentious plan for judicial reform.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg published an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday warning against the Netanyahu-led government’s plans to reform its left-leaning judiciary, saying Israel was “courting disaster.”

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he was “not angry” at U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides over the latter’s call to have him “thrown off a plane,” which were made in response to the Israeli minister’s own comments calling to “wipe out” a Palestinian village of Huwara, the site of a terror attack in which two Israeli brothers were killed.

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the country’s top diplomat, celebrated India’s friendly relationships with all major powers in an interview Tuesday – markedly omitting China and emphasizing that tension between the two countries is growing because China has repeatedly violated India’s border.

After being ignored for almost the entire length of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.N. on Wednesday will reveal a stern resolution calling for a “just and lasting peace” between the combatants while simultaneously demanding an immediate cease fire.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said he spends the majority of his time helping Palestinians, an unusual remark from a diplomat purporting to serve as the U.S. envoy to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to chide U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides on Sunday, saying “all democracies should respect” Israel’s decisions, after the American envoy said Israel should “pump the brakes” on the government’s plan to reform the country’s left-wing judiciary.

The foreign affairs commission of the Congress of Peru declared Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro persona non grata on Tuesday after Petro compared the actions of Peru’s National Police in response to the ongoing wave of violent leftist riots there to those of Nazi Germany.

Vice President Kamala Harris told Politico during an interview Tuesday the U.S. military downing a suspected Chinese spy balloon should not impact diplomatic relations with communist China.

Australia’s left-wing Labor government has announced the appointment of a new international Ambassador for Gender Equality.

Perhaps the president who ran on “diplomacy” should try to live up to his campaign promises — before it is too late.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise to Jordan on Tuesday to meet with King Abdullah II, to whom he reportedly vowed not to change the status quo on the flashpoint Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the U.S. “genuinely” hopes to forge a united front with Israel to combat the Iranian threat.

Israel will be the United States’ most important ally this century, Israel’s new Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said on Tuesday.

Australia’s incoming ambassador to the United States, left-wing former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has lectured America to stop throwing foreign allies “under a bus” on trade and economic issues in Asia.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked newly minted Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen to pass along messages on to Russia in a phone call on Monday, a senior Israeli diplomat told the Times of Israel on Tuesday.