By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli tanks advanced deeper into the western area of Rafah, amid one of the worst nights of bombardment from air, ground, and sea, forcing many families to flee their homes and tents under darkness, residents said on Thursday. Residents said the Israeli forces thrust towards the Al-Mawasi area of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A house-cured smoked salmon, red grapefruit, avocado and cucumber starter. Dry-aged rib eye beef in a sesame sabayon sauce. Salted caramel pistachio cake under a layer of matcha ganache. While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over foreign policy, the female chef duo […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A house-cured smoked salmon, red grapefruit, avocado and cucumber starter. Dry-aged rib eye beef in a sesame sabayon sauce. Salted caramel pistachio cake under a layer of matcha ganache. While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over foreign policy, the female chef duo […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s diplomacy with the West is in crisis management mode and is focused on trying to ensure that tensions do not spill over into a large-scale conflict, the TASS news agency on Friday reported a top diplomat as saying. TASS cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as telling it in an interview […]
[Source] Malaysia’s plan to gift orangutans to buyers of its palm oil — an industry that destroys the great apes’ habitats — is drawing criticism from conservationists. Key points: Malaysia is considering gifting orangutans to foreign countries that buy its palm oil, a strategy dubbed as “orangutan diplomacy.” The plan mirrors China’s world-famous “panda diplomacy,” […]
PARIS (AP) — How do you smooth over trade tensions with the all-powerful leader of economic powerhouse China? Charm him with a bottle of Cognac, or two. That seemed to be French President Emmanuel Macron’s strategy with his carefully selected gift list for visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday. China recently opened an anti-dumping […]
In multiple calls and meetings since Oct. 7, the Netanyahu government told their American counterparts they would open humanitarian aid routes into Gaza — but that they would do so solely because Washington asked. “We’re going to say the Americans requested it,” one senior Israeli official said this year, as relayed by a senior Biden […]
China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its long-standing gesture of friendship toward the United States. It comes after nearly all the iconic bears on loan to US zoos were returned as relations began to sour between the two nations. San Diego Zoo officials told The […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he has no desire for diplomacy with South Korea and that the North would annihilate its rival if provoked, according to state media. The latest of his belligerent statements came during a visit to North Korea’s Defence Ministry on Thursday. Mr Kim said his recent moves to cut […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinks of right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson as a “useful idiot.” “If you actually read translations of what’s been said in Russian media, they make fun of him. I mean, he’s like a puppy dog,” Clinton told Alex Wagner on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” on Wednesday. The 2016 Democratic presidential […]
(Bloomberg) — Iran urged the US to use diplomacy to ease tensions in the Middle East, as Tehran braces for a military response to a deadly attack on an American base over the weekend. Most Read from Bloomberg The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic said “active” diplomacy is underway to find a political solution […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Jordan’s king and foreign minister and visited a World Food Programme warehouse in Amman as he pressed ahead with an urgent Middle East diplomatic mission to prevent Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza from spreading. On his fourth visit to the region in three months, Mr Blinken […]