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...Biden spoke after a meeting at the White House with Jordan’s King Abdullah, who warned an Israeli offensive in Rafah would “produce another humanitarian catastrophe”....
...The king criticised Israel’s leaders, who he said have been “unwilling to take the path of peace on the basis of a two-state solution”....
...Read more on Travis King here...
...It was not clear why North Korea had decided to expel King....
...After he spoke with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas made it clear he wished to return home to the West Bank to observe three days of mourning, Biden decided it would...
...In Jordan he will meet King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He will also visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Qatar....
...In response, Palestinian authority president Mahmoud Abbas pulled out of a planned meeting with Biden in Jordan, and the White House announced that the entire second leg of his trip to meet King Abdullah...
...King Abdullah said admitting refugees was a “red line” for Jordan and for Egypt, which borders Gaza. “No refugees into Jordan and no refugees into Egypt either,” the king added....
...The day before King crossed into North Korea, he had been due to fly to Dallas for military disciplinary proceedings....
...Private Travis King’s sudden dash from South Korea sparked speculation about the motivations of the 23-year-old serviceman from Wisconsin....
...The crown prince, a son of the Saudi king but the country’s day-to-day ruler, dismissed reports that Riyadh had pulled out of the discussions. “Everyday we get closer,” he said....
...Wormuth said there is no information suggesting King sympathized with Pyongyang....
...He was identified as Travis King, a private second class — a low-ranked enlisted soldier — who had joined in January 2021, according to an Army spokesman....
...In a sign of improving bilateral relations, Biden is expected to travel to the UK in July as part of a trip to the Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, having accepted an invitation from King Charles, according...
...Biden is expected to return to the UK for a state visit after accepting an invitation in April from King Charles III....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Aspen, Colorado...
...Additional reporting by James Politi and Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Additional reporting by Heba Saleh, Bita Ghaffari, Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Felicia Schwartz...
...In the end, I turned on Fox News for the debate, and my colleague, Felicia Schwartz, started streaming Trump on X....
...US president Joe Biden spoke to King Charles III on Wednesday to offer condolences for Queen Elizabeth’s death, the White House said....
...Lauren Fedor and Felicia Schwartz have the latest here....
...Do read my colleague, Felicia Schwartz, on the Ukraine news from Aspen....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz...
...Ties have historically centred on personal relations between the president and the king, but today it is blighted by mistrust, tensions and misunderstanding, analysts said....
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