EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell urged member states on Monday to send the Patriot air-defence systems requested by Ukraine. “Now everything has been said and a lot of things [have] to be done,” Borrell said in a press conference in Luxembourg after a joint meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers. With the front […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The Vatican’s top diplomat began a six-day visit to Vietnam on Tuesday as part of ongoing efforts to normalize relations between the two sides. Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s foreign minister, will meet with his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and visit a children’s hospital […]
Voters in Slovakia headed to the ballot stations on Saturday to elect a successor to Zuzana Caputova, the country’s first female president and a staunch backer of neighbouring Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion. Former foreign minister Ivan Korcok won the first round of voting two weeks ago after receiving 42.5% of the votes. […]
LEAWOOD, Kan. — Taiwan’s top diplomat in the region was in Kansas Thursday to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Taiwan Relation Act. “We share the same values and we trust each other and Taiwan, for the past 50 years, has been a great industrial partner of the U.S.,” Director General Bill Huang said. The […]
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A Russian diplomat has been declared persona non grata in Slovenia and ordered to leave the European Union country within seven days, its Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Slovenia is expelling the Russian diplomat over “activities incompatible with the diplomatic status,” the ministry said in a statement. It provided no further details. […]
(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian top diplomat pushed back on Pope Francis’ call for his country to show “the courage of the white flag” and enter negotiations with Russia, a remark that fueled outrage among Ukrainians and condemnation from some foreign allies. Most Read from Bloomberg “Our flag is a yellow and blue one,” Foreign Minister Dmytro […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Victoria Nuland, the third-highest ranking U.S. diplomat and frequent target of criticism for her hawkish views on Russia and its actions in Ukraine, will leave her post this month, the State Department said Tuesday. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe during the Obama […]
Avraham Gil, the son of an Israeli diplomat accused of “intentionally” running over a cop, was reportedly the victim of a physical assault inside a Miami jail holding cell on Wednesday. The 19-year-old was riding a motorcycle without a valid driver’s license on Collins Avenue on Jan. 27 when Sunny Isles Beach Lt. Ruben Zamora […]
A former US ambassador has said he will admit serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades, bringing an unexpectedly fast resolution to a case prosecutors described as one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the US foreign service. Manuel Rocha, 73, told a federal judge he would admit […]
By Jonathan Landay and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the United States will impose “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of sanctions against Russia in a new package marking the second anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said some of the sanctions […]
LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Monday toured battle sites of the Falklands War during a visit meant to underline that the Falkland Islands are a “valued part of the British family.” The visit by Cameron — the first British foreign secretary to make the trip to the South Atlantic archipelago in […]
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki asked the United Nations’s top court to declare Israeli occupation of the West Bank illegal at a historic hearing opened in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. The Palestinian diplomat focused on the war in Gaza for much of the case proceedings Monday and told the International Court of […]