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Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia, but aren’t meeting each other directly, relying on American shuttle diplomacy.

Washington lawmakers should toughen up, be like their brave French counterparts and challenge President Donald Trump rather than surrendering all the time. So says a French politician from 3,800 miles away in Paris.

Democrats inflated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sense of arrogance and entitlement before Friday’s disastrous Oval Office meeting, with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) even calling Zelensky the real leader of the free world.

Top Russian and U.S. officials are readying to meet Tuesday to address a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

A full victory over Hamas terrorism, countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries. These are the three items at the top of the list Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will broach in his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, DC.

The Trump administration has strengthened Israel’s bargaining position in its first week in office vis-à-vis Hamas and Hezbollah, two Iranian-backed terrorist groups that launched a brutal but failed war against Israel in October 2023.

President Donald Trump referred to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un — and, by extension, his country — as a “nuclear power” in remarks to reporters from the Oval Office on Monday.

First Lady Jill Biden has been showered in gifts while her husband has been in office, receiving donated trifles worth tens of thousands of dollars in 2023 alone including a diamond worth $20,000 from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Moscow will work with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to improve relations on one condition: Washington must make the first move, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared Thursday.

Mark Burnett, the London-born producer who launched Donald Trump to a global television audience with “The Apprentice,” has been tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom.

Nature abhors a vacuum. So does politics. No sooner had President-elect Donald Trump been confirmed as the next occupant of the White House than beleaguered French President Emmanuel Macron sought to invite him to Saturday’s reopening of the magnificently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

First Lady Jill Biden left for an overseas jaunt late Tuesday night to undertake a series of glittering dinners, receptions, diplomatic meetings, drinks, banquets, and a wedding reception. The flying trip ends with her joining President-elect Donald Trump and other dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Brigade-strength Japanese military forces will train alongside U.S. Marines in northern Australia from 2025 onwards it was confirmed during high-level talks hosted in the Northern Territory capital Darwin on Sunday.

Far-left Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of personally attacking him because of his “ethnicity” and Muslim faith, in comments likely to reignite the Labour politician’s long-running and very public antipathy towards the U.S. president-elect.

House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) accepted President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination on Sunday to be ambassador to the United Nations.

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged India to take Canadian allegations of an assassination plot against Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar seriously and cooperate with Canadian investigators.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday glibly ruled out any imminent Israeli strikes against Iran as the strife-torn region prepares for a response to the recent missile attack on the Jewish state.

Sir Keir Starmer took his mission to “reset” Britain’s relations with the E.U. to Brussels on Wednesday as European capitals warned he should not expect an easy ride in anticipating a revision of the terms and conditions of Brexit.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed rising global “impunity, inequality, and unpredictability” with a push for 193-member states to focus on “more effective, inclusive, and networked multilateralism” when he spoke Tuesday morning at the opening session of the General Assembly in New York.

With only three months left in office, President Joe Biden will make his farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), said Wednesday that there would be no “normalization” of relations with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state — a reversal of his position one year ago.

Former President Donald Trump said that he wanted to end the was between Russia and Ukraine as President-elect — even before he takes office — though he did not say how he intended to do so, given laws barring private diplomacy.

Ukraine did not warn Berlin before its Aug. 6 cross-border incursion into Russia,  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, adding he expected that Kyiv’s military operation to be limited in time and scope.

Iran on Tuesday categorically refused Western calls to drop its threat to retaliate against Israel for last month’s killing of Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Chelsea Clinton is aspiring to take up an ambassadorship if Kamala Harris claims the presidency come November, sources confided to the New York Post, with the UK seen as the first choice in her diplomatic ambitions.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby acknowledged that keeping Iran from getting nuclear weapons capability through diplomacy “hasn’t worked.” After playing video of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussing

Former North Korean diplomat Ri Il-kyu, whose defection to South Korea was made public last month, said on Thursday that the regime in Pyongyang will be interested in resuming nuclear talks if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

Newly installed left-wing UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and U.S. President Joe Biden have wasted no time in arranging a time and place for their first meeting, with Wednesday set aside during NATO’s 75th anniversary gathering in Washington, DC.

Canada’s standing in the world is suffering under the tenure of leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, former foreign affairs minister Marc Garneau reportedly claims in his new autobiography.

President Joe Biden promised to designate Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO ally” during a state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday.

By reversing Trump’s successful “America First” policies, Biden created the conditions for war in the Middle East, and in Europe as well.

The new talks in Oman could be interpreted as a way to avoid a larger regional war — or, given the Obama/Biden track record, as a way to reassure Iran that neither Israel nor the U.S. will target it in response to its aggression.

Japan is “xenophobic,” as well as Russia and China, President Joe Biden, 81, declared Wednesday in an unprecedented statement.

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron arrived in Israel on Wednesday for talks where he is expected to repeat his warning against any  response to the recent missile attack by Iran.

Kim Yo-jong, the politically influential sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, said on Thursday that her brother might be willing to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, who wishes to discuss the fate of Japanese civilians kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, provided Kishida is “respectful.”

President Joe Biden on Sunday appeared to confuse French President Emmanuel Macron with his late predecessor Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996.