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China publicly warned Australia on Wednesday against being an “enthusiastic bandwagoner of the U.S. strategy” in the contentious Indo-Pacific region after Foreign Minister Penny Wong concluded her visit to Beijing.

A video circulating on social media shows President Joe Biden saying the nuclear deal with Iran, which is still under negotiations with world powers, “is dead” but the U.S. will not make a formal announcement.

Israeli and American officials blasted a United Nations attorney who is leading an “neutral, third party” investigation into Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians after her long history of antisemitic comments was revealed in an explosive report on Wednesday

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon told Breitbart News on Thursday a peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia would likely be signed within a year.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to exchange diplomatic regards with U.S. counterpart Joe Biden. It will be his second state visit to the White House in four years.

A United Nations committee approved a draft resolution Friday calling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague to urgently issue its opinion on the legal consequences of allegedly denying the Palestinian people the right to self-determination, a move Israel’s envoy to the global body maintains will “endanger” the country’s future as well as any chance of peace with the Palestinians.

Russia President Vladimir Putin will not join a gathering of world leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) nations on the Indonesian resort island of Bali next week, choosing to stay at home instead.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Israel’s refusal to provide Kyiv with military aid has bolstered an emerging Russian-Iranian axis whereby Moscow will assist Iran with its nuclear program in exchange for attack drones.

Russia and Ukraine are far more likely to negotiate an end to their war if Republicans win either house of the U.S. Congress in the upcoming midterm elections than if Democrats retain full control. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)

Former President Donald Trump said he “could easily be” the prime minister of Israel and Jewish Americans should “get their act together” and be more appreciative of what he has done for Israel.

Israel on Tuesday slammed Australia and summoned the country’s ambassador after Canberra announced it no longer recognized western Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. “In light of the way in which the decision was made in Australia, as a hasty response

Australia’s left-wing Labor government has reversed the previous conservative administration’s recognition of west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Tuesday’s move drew an angry response from the Jewish state and applause from Palestinian activists and the Hamas terrorist organization.

U.S. President Joe Biden has made another diplomatic blunder, publicly denigrating Prime Minister Liz Truss over her attempt to cut taxes.

Everything is the fault of the U.S. in Iran, a country where shouting “death to America” is almost regarded as a national refrain, a point reiterated Thursday by President Ebrahim Raisi.

EU diplomats are out of touch and slower to report back to Brussels than newspapers, EU Foreign Affairs Chief Josep Borrell admitted.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed the current Israeli premier Yair Lapid for agreeing to a U.S.-drafted maritime border agreement with Lebanon that was a “surrender to Hezbollah.”

The U.S. international outlook has changed dramatically with Joe Biden in the White House, a poll shows, with a majority now expecting U.S. dealings with traditional foes like Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea to only grow more hostile.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Palestinian Americans at the sidelines of the United Nations he told off Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the Biden administration’s inaction in pressuring Israel into peace talks, calling the top American diplomat a “little boy.”

 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris capped her four-day trip to Asia with a stop Thursday at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the Korean Peninsula, confusing onlooks by using the moment to  assert the United States has a “strong alliance” with “the Republic of North Korea.”

British Prime Minister Liz Truss told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that she is reviewing moving the British embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

President Joe Biden declared an “era of relentless diplomacy” at the United Nations on Wednesday — but declined to offer any kind of negotiations to Russia, instead spending several minutes condemning Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi used his address at the United Nations on Wednesday to declare Israel is a “savage power” that “kills children” before adding Iran remains the protector of Palestinians.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the globalist organization’s 2022 General Assembly on Tuesday, saying the time has come for the world to fall into line and address a range of problems from Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine to rising food and energy prices – or pay a deadly price.

Israel’s envoy at the U.N. has urged the global body to deny Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi a platform with which to address the upcoming General Assembly, a day after the Iranian president cast doubt on the Holocaust and called Israel a “false regime’ in an interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes.

Chile’s radical left, anti-Israel president Gabriel Boric refused to accept the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador in a major breach of protocol that has ignited a diplomatic spat between the two countries.

Left-wing Chilean President Gabriel Boric sparked a major diplomatic crisis on Thursday by refusing to accept the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador to Chile, Gil Artzyeli.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday warned his country would not be party to a nuclear deal if U.N. inspectors did not drop their investigation of undeclared nuclear sites, and issued a threat to Israel against carrying out military action.

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency has called the nascent nuclear deal with Iran a “strategic disaster” that is “based on lies.”

A pair of U.S. warships sailed through the flashpoint Taiwan Strait on Sunday in the first such transit since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s surprise visit to Taiwan earlier month.

Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s request to hold an emergency telephone conversation with U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss the nascent nuclear deal with Iran has been rebuffed with the excuse that the American president “is on vacation,” Israeli media reported on Wednesday.

Iran has dropped its demand for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to be removed from the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, CNN reported.

Israeli officials have expressed concern the U.S. will imminently sign a nuclear deal with Iran that will be “even worse” than the Obama-led 2015 accord, Hebrew-language news outlet Ynet reported, citing a senior Israeli intelligence official.

A delegation of U.S. lawmakers landed in Taiwan early Sunday morning, flying in 12 days after a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that riled Beijing.

The Palestinian Authority is planning to demand full recognition for “State of Palestine” at the United Nations and has been in contact with President Joe Biden about the matter, Palestinian media reported ahead of the General Assembly in September.

UK Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss said she would consider moving the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if she becomes prime minister next month.

The Kremlin on Friday jumped less than 24-hours after WNBA star Brittney Griner was hit with a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession to offer Washington immediate prisoner swaps.