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As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken sat down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel this week, American and Arab officials were expressing cautious optimism over the latest proposal from Hamas for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. But just hours after speaking to Mr. Blinken, Mr. Netanyahu appeared more intent on delivering a […]
U.S. fighter jets struck Houthi rebel sites in Yemen for a sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing military operations. The Iranian-backed Houthi militants say their attacks on global shipping in the Red Sea corridor […]
Terrorist designation ‘won’t change anything in reality,’ senior Houthi leader tells NBC News JERUSALEM — The decision by the U.S. to put Yemen’s Houthis back on its list of specially designated terrorists “won’t change anything in reality,” one of the rebel group’s senior leaders told NBC News yesterday, hours after the sanctions came into effect. […]
Pakistan strikes militants in Iran, killing at least 9 Yuliya Talmazan At least 9 people were killed after Pakistan carried out strikes against militant targets inside Iran overnight, Iranian state media has said. The deaths were reported in one of the border villages in the Sistan and Baluchestan province in Iran’s southeast, state-run news agency […]
When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing this summer for a new diplomatic posting, it was vindication after years of battling the State Department over a perceived intelligence threat — himself. Diplomatic Security officers had informed him when he joined the foreign service more than a decade ago that they […]
By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday as investors focused on geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and optimism the U.S. Federal Reserve would soon start cutting interest rates, lifting global economic growth and fuel demand. Brent crude futures fell 26 cents, or 0.3%, to $79.13 a barrel by […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson’s disease. But now Fu is doing his research at a Chinese university. His […]
Xi and Biden met last week for the first time in a year, on the sidelines of this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders’ meeting in San Francisco. They agreed to resume high level military communication between two countries that were halted after bilateral relations were derailed by a stray surveillance balloon that drifted over […]
In Washington, President Xi Jinping of China is largely considered a mysterious autocrat who has long harbored a fatalistic view of his country’s relationship with the United States. But for a brief moment on Wednesday, at a century-old gilded mansion in the hills of Northern California, President Biden treated Mr. Xi like just another car […]
Medan, Indonesia – Indonesian President Joko Widodo is in the United States this week for a summit with President Joe Biden at the White House, and later to attend the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, amid the continuing Israel-Gaza war. The visit has prompted questions about whether Widodo, popularly known as […]