Australia has committed another $10m for food urgently needed in Gaza. The latest funding takes Australia’s humanitarian assistance to $72.5m since October 7. Federal frontbencher Anne Aly was in Jordan this week at an urgent meeting about aid in Gaza. “Ultimately, this is about Israel taking responsibility for this andContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States was imposing new visa restrictions and reviewing relations with Georgia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday, after it pushed forward a Russian-style “foreign influence” law that triggered mass protests.The new visa policy “will apply to individuals who are responsible for or complicit in undermining democracyContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken engaged in discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials on Friday, highlighting the importance of effective communication and also also warned the officials to prevent misunderstandings and misjudgments amidst escalating tensions between the two nations, as per anContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has asked China’s foreign minister and other counterparts to use their influence to dissuade Iran from striking Israel, the State Department said Thursday.Blinken spoke by telephone over the past day to his Chinese, Turkish, Saudi and European counterparts “to make clear that escalationContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlighted the potential for Israel to establish normal diplomatic relations with its Arab neighbors in the coming months. Blinken also stressed the importance of creating a Palestinian state. He acknowledged the genuine efforts made by Arab countries to strengthen the Palestinian Authority’sContinue Reading
RIYADH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Saudi Arabia on Monday to kick off his latest regional crisis trip aimed at securing a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war. The top US diplomat’s plane touched down in Riyadh, said an AFP journalist travelling with him, the first stopContinue Reading
A few weeks on from a terrifying mid-air incident on a Boeing plane, airline executives, aviation experts and whistleblowers have raised concerns about safety practices at the manufacturer. In footage which horrified the world, a door plug suddenly blew off an Alaska Airline flights from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, CaliforniaContinue Reading
US secretary of state Antony Blinken was briefly stranded in Davos on Wednesday after his plane experienced a “critical failure” related to an oxygen leak and another plane is being flown to Switzerland to pick him up, according to a member of his traveling press pool. The top US diplomatContinue Reading
Penny Wong has announced she will meet with the families of Israeli hostages on her peace trip to the Middle East as tensions continue to rise in the region over the Israel-Hamas conflict. The Foreign Minister will travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank whereContinue Reading
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon‘s capital earlier this week.The rocket attack came a day after HezbollahContinue Reading