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...UK development minister Andrew Mitchell condemned the “appalling killing” during his meeting with Israel’s ambassador Tzipi Hotovely....
...The UK foreign secretary, who will also hold talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, will call on Congress to approve the extra $60bn in supplementary funding for Kyiv that has been blocked by Republicans...
...The current show, Epoch, includes work by Harley Weir, Tyler Mitchell, Elaine Constantine and Sam Youkilis, whose pictures can be viewed from both sides of the building’s windows, much to the delight of...
...already been punctured after the balloon — which Beijing insisted was a wayward “civilian unmanned airship” collecting meteorological data — flew over North America in the week that US secretary of state Antony...
...The fray prompted Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, to call off a planned visit to Beijing at the last minute, which was intended to follow up on Xi and President Joe Biden’s constructive face-to-face...
...vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, said Biden should have spoken to the US public during the week, but that the administration was focused on trying to salvage the trip that secretary of state Antony...
...Sudan’s armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have agreed a 72-hour ceasefire following what US secretary of state Antony Blinken described as “intense negotiations” amid deadly clashes...
...Niger has hosted regular visits from western leaders, including US secretary of state Antony Blinken who came in March and called the country “one of the most important partners on the continent in terms...
...Antony Blinken this year became the first US secretary of state to visit Niger in the country’s history, underlining its growing strategic importance....
...US president Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Antony Fauci, who is stepping down this month, said China’s approach to Covid-19 had been “draconian”, involving strict lockdowns without any path to resume...
...The US president later said that Antony Blinken, secretary of state, would visit China for further talks....
...Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, has sought to build support for a ceasefire and return to talks on democratic transition....
...US, secretary of state Antony Blinken, defence secretary Lloyd Austin and commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to testify at Senate appropriations committee hearing on the US-China relationship....
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken criticised Beijing and Hong Kong authorities for ignoring “democratic participation and fundamental freedoms, and an independent media”....
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken and Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov both plan to attend....
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken yesterday urged China to act responsibly and “not to engage in any escalation” if the visit goes ahead....
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing Follow Demetri Sevastopulo and Tom Mitchell on Twitter...
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu in Beijing Follow Tom Mitchell and Demetri Sevastopulo on Twitter...
...“We expected to have tough talks on a wide range of issues and that’s exactly what we had,” Sullivan said after he and Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, met their Chinese counterparts....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu in Beijing Follow Demetri Sevastopulo and Tom Mitchell on Twitter...
...Comment: Didi’s US exit shows Xi Jinping is the ultimate arbiter for China’s companies, says Tom Mitchell in Singapore. Thanks for reading FirstFT Americas....
...The move will sharpen the two countries’ confrontation over Beijing’s repression of the territory’s pro-democracy movement only a week before Antony Blinken, secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, national...
...Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, set the tone for Beijing’s clashes with a long lecture to his US counterpart on March 18 in Alaska, where he told Antony Blinken that no country would ever again “speak...
...Antony Blinken, secretary of state, on Wednesday said the US would continue to impose sanctions over the effort to “quash” democracy....
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