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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that China must cooperate with investigations from the United States and the World Health Organization into investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), a far-left group on Capitol Hill, issued a statement supporting the remarks made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), calling the attacks on her part of the “right-wing media echo chamber” which are “distorting her views and intentions.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the rest of her leadership team called out Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) remarks comparing the United States and Israel to Hamas and Taliban terrorists, saying the comparison has “no moral equivalency.”

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday there has been “a lot of progress made” on bringing the United States back into the Iran nuclear deal, allowing formal negotiations with Iran to resume this weekend.

President Biden has been in office for less than five months and has already taken a public stand against core Church teachings 32 times, the Catholic League reports this week.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken declined to explain Tuesday why the Biden administration gave the green light to Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline but canceled the Keystone XL pipeline to Canada, saying he could not comment on “domestic… politics.”

Secretary of State Tony Blinken declined Monday to confirm that the U.S. recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, when asked directly by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) about the issue at the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

President Joe Biden’s massive $6 trillion budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year includes hundreds of millions of dollars in restored aid to the Palestinians, some of which President Donald Trump had suspended over concerns about Palestinian support for terror.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley confirmed Thursday that the administration of President Joe Biden will help Afghan nationals who aided the U.S. military leave the country before the military concludes its departure in September.

President Joe Biden’s plan to re-open a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem is illegal under the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which requires all diplomatic functions in Israel’s capital to be conducted in one embassy, two former Trump administration officials claim.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday touted the growing alliance between China and Russia as an opportunity to correct the “dangerous trend of disorder” spread around the world by U.S. policy under the Trump administration.

U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken met Tuesday in Ramallah with Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist who urged him to use the word “apartheid” in reference to Israel and asked the U.S. to end arms sales to Israel, as well as financial and diplomatic support.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Iran is enriching uranium to levels that “only countries making bombs” reach, and added Tehran’s nuclear program had reached the point of no return and could not go back to where it was at the time of the 2015 Obama-led deal.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin is to visit Washington within weeks, his office said Wednesday, in the first such trip by a high-ranking Israeli official to meet US President Joe Biden.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas referred to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday as “Secretary Clinton” before staff corrected him.

Ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s maiden visit to Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday hinted Israel could take military action against Iran’s nuclear sites without U.S. approval.

Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar boasted to Britain’s Sky News in an interview released Sunday that Hamas had aimed rockets at Israel’s heavily-populated civilian areas, naming it as the major achievement of the recent war.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken is encouraging all U.S. embassies and diplomatic missions to honor the radical Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on May 25, the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, according to a report by Human Events.

President Joe Biden announced Monday he would send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to signal support for the Palestinians, citing “years of neglect” in the region.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold in the early hours of Friday morning after the worst violence in years, with U.S. President Joe Biden joining the United Nations in urging renewed dialogue between the two combatants.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday celebrated a “constructive” conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying Blinken shared his “understanding of the need to overcome the unhealthy situation that developed between Moscow and Washington in previous years.” 

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unleashed in an exclusive Breitbart News interview a blistering critique of what he views as President Joe Biden’s failed leadership of the United States, whereby the president has caused myriad domestic and international crises that threaten American leadership in the world and ordinary American families.

The U.S. received “further information” from Israel concerning its decision to strike an international media office building in Gaza on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. “We have received some further information through intelligence channels,” Blinken said from

The Biden administration plans to scrap the sanctions on the Russian company responsible for the pipeline, despite initial signals that they would not. 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki argued Tuesday that former President Donald Trump did not help bring peace to the Middle East, even as historic violence has erupted between Israel and Palestine under President Joe Biden’s administration.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken signaled Monday the United States would not call for a ceasefire in the Middle-East, opposing Democrat Senators demands Sunday.

Blinken also said he had asked Israel for any evidence for its claim that Hamas was operating in a Gaza office building housing The Associated Press and Al Jazeera news bureaus that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike over the weekend. But he said that he personally has “not seen any information provided.”

After initially blocking a U.N. Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss “the situation in Israel and Gaza,” the Biden administration agreed to participate in such a meeting on Sunday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hoped the delay would “give time for diplomacy.”

Iraqi President Barham Salih claimed in an interview on Wednesday that Baghdad has “more than once” hosted secret talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

U.S. Secretary Blinken blasted Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Tuesday over his country’s Legislative Assembly move to remove top judges.

China’s envoy to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, told reporters Monday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a “positive” response to China’s invitation to attend a virtual U.N. Security Council summit on Friday.

Biden appears to see America’s role as shaping China into a more responsible superpower, once it overtakes the U.S., rather than challenging China’s rise or restraining its ambitions.

President Joe Biden has decided not to reverse President Donald Trump’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region, the Axios news site reported.

A group of GOP senators came out against the Biden administration’s move to resume funding for a U.N. Palestinian refugee agency.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) conceded that former President Donald Trump “took bold and aggressive” action against Communist China.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced this week that the administration of President Joe Biden expects to immediately invest “nearly $300 million” in aid to Afghanistan, potentially just the beginning in what Blinken has advertised as heightened civilian engagement in the country.