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US, Qatar announce new Gaza talks as Blinken eyes new options
The United States and Qatar on Thursday announced a resumption of negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire, as US Secretary of State ...
Taliban release American detained in Afghanistan since 2022
George Glezmann, a Delta Airlines mechanic detained by the Taliban during a trip to Afghanistan in 2022, was on his way back ...
US citizen George Glezmann freed after two and a half years in Taliban captivity following negotiations
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that George Glezmann, who was wrongfully detained in Afghanistan for two and ...
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Blinken to visit the Middle East to discuss Gaza truce
ALBAWABA - Marking his fifth visit to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, and Qatar. He is expected to meet with mediators to ...
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Antony Blinken, the born and bred diplomat serving as US secretary of state
Few nations are more involved than the United States, and the U.S. efforts are being led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. A stalwart diplomat with years of foreign policy experience under his ...
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Antony Blinken often cites his family’s Holocaust history. The Russia-Ukraine war has him stuck between the personal and the political.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Secretary of State Antony Blinken cited his family’s Holocaust-era history in explaining a matter of U.S. foreign policy on Monday, it was far from the first time he ...
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Where Biden’s secretary of state choice Tony Blinken stands on Jewish issues, from immigration to Israel
(JTA) — Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions ...