international diplomacy

During a State Department briefing, on Tuesday an Associated Press reporter calls out the Department spokesperson, Ned Price for not being prepared.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to arrange a state visit to Morocco just before Israelis go to the polls in April 9 elections, according to a report in a Moroccan media outlet.

Prime Minister of Mali Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga is expected to visit Israel in the coming weeks, reported Israel’s Channel 13 on Monday.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has departed for the central African nation of Chad to officially restore relations.

France has impose sanctions against 18 Saudi citizens over the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month.

U.K Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt warned Iran to stop jailing innocent people ahead of his first visit to the Islamic Republic.

The United States opposed on Friday for the first time an annual draft resolution at the United Nations calling on Israel to rescind its authority over the occupied Golan Heights, drawing praise from Israeli officials.

President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton was described by an Iran foreign ministry spokesman on Wednesday as a “chronic sadist” with an anti-Iran grudge who deserves to be taught “a lesson.”

WASHINGTON — A retired four-star general is President Donald Trump’s pick to be US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, filling a key diplomatic vacancy at a time when US-Saudi relations are being tested by the slaying of a journalist critical of the Saudi royal family.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday had a “short talk” with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris as world leaders gathered for commemorations marking 100 years since the end of World War I.

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro suggested Tuesday he was prepared to make a swift U-turn over plans to move the country’s Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman at the centre of a divisive blasphemy case has pleaded for sanctuary in the U.S., Canada or the U.K, saying he fears for his family’s safety.

The European Union’s “hypocritical and hostile attitude” towards Israel was called out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday as he left for talks with four eastern European leaders in Bulgaria.

Israeli leaders on Monday welcomed the election of Jair Bolsonaro, a controversial hardliner, as new president of Brazil, hailing his bona fide pro-Israel credentials.

WARSAW, Poland — Israel marked the 70th anniversary of its first diplomatic mission as a new nation Tuesday with a re-enactment in the city that hosted the outpost — Warsaw, Poland.

China, blindsided by the Trump administration’s trade offensive, has been working overtime to maintain its relationship with the Pentagon.

Australia’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would strike a “really big blow” that “will affect bilateral relations” with neighbouring Indonesia, according to a message exchange between Foreign Minister Marise Payne and her Indonesian counterpart.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Saturday slammed the left-wing Israeli human rights group B’Tselem for accepting an unusual invitation from Bolivia to address the UN Security Council session later this week. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday underlined her recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, indicating that she supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s view that the Palestinians, too, should accept this definition in an eventual peace agreement.

TEL AVIV — President Donald Trump has decided that the U.S. will withdraw from the optional protocol and dispute resolution to the Vienna Convention in connection with an attempt by the Palestinians to sue the U.S. government at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. 

Tehran called on Tuesday for talks with Paris to clear a “misunderstanding” over an alleged bomb plot targeting an exiled opposition group near the French capital.

First Lady Melania Trump leaves Monday to visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt highlighting programs successfully teaching children life well-being skills as part of her BE BEST campaign.

TEL AVIV – Israeli and Russian military officials will meet in a bid to fix fraying ties between the two countries in the wake of the downing of a Russian plane by Syrian air defenses during an Israeli airstrike last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would not meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during the United Nations General Assembly.

Iran accused U.S.-backed Gulf states of stirring instability in the Islamic Republic by supporting those behind Saturday’s deadly attack on a military parade, before directing its ire at the UK envoy and other Western diplomats.

President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday after the chairman signaled faith in the peace process.

President Donald Trump will chair a U.N. Security Council meeting on Iran when the annual gathering of world leaders descends on New York this month.

The Philippines’ controversial President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to arrive Sunday for a four-day visit, on the heels of yet another statement that triggered fury in which he said during a speech Thursday that rape will continue as long as there are beautiful women.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday questioned the official number of Palestinians designated as refugees by the international body, and said that the agency for those refugees must undergo an overhaul if the U.S. was to continue to support it. 

WASHINGTON — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is calling on Middle Eastern nations to increase aid to Palestinian refugees.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has entered the growing diplomatic rift between Canada and Saudi Arabia, warning Canadian critics of the Islamic kingdom not to claim moral superiority.

Saudi Arabia  is freezing all new trade and investment with Canada over what it calls “interference” in the Gulf Kingdom’s internal affairs.

The Jerusalem municipality fast-tracked building permits to enlarge the size of the US embassy, which relocated to the capital on May 14.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Tuesday that sanctions against Iran will not work and urged the United States to instead “try respect” for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, that President Donald Trump exited on May 8.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the U.S. nothing will force Ankara to “step back” after President Donald Trump threatened “significant sanctions” against Turkey if a jailed U.S. pastor is not released.

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin praised Serbia for enacting a new law allowing restitution to the Jewish community of heirless and unclaimed property seized from Jews during the Holocaust.