U.S. Department of State
Recent News About U.S. Department of State
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The United States recently announced the successful evacuation of U.S. citizens, along with locally employed staff and nationals from allied countries, from Sudan to Saudi Arabia amid ongoing violence and unrest in the region.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister Amery Browne met to discuss issues such as regional security, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the killing of a 6-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man and the injuries to at least five others in a car-ramming terror attack near East Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood.
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The United States designated seven individuals involved in the design and production of Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and oversight of Iran’s ballistic missile programs.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the launch of the Office of China Coordination, which draws on expertise from across the State Department to help implement a strategy to compete with the People’s Republic of China.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield spent a day in Ukraine recently, seeing the destruction caused by Russian forces, visiting with victims of war crimes, touring a grain-storage facility and meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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A Hong Kong court convicted pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai of fraud for allegedly violating a lease by operating a consulting firm out of an office owned by a government-owned entity, NBC News reported.
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The United States will provide $2 million in emergency funding through the U.S. Agency for International Development to Cuba after the devastation of Hurricane Ian.
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An investigation into a cyberattack against the Albanian government that determined the government of Iran was behind the attack has caused Albania to sever relations with Iran.