Antony Blinken

Stronger India-US health partnership can be a ‘powerful force’ to fight global COVID pandemic: Jaishankar

11:59 pm May 27, 2021

Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday emphasised that a stronger India-US health partnership can be a ”powerful force” to fight the global COVID pandemic as he met top members of America’s corporate sector and discussed India’s priorities and the importance of strengthening critical supply chains and collaboration for production of vaccines and therapeutics. Jaishankar arrived […]

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Blinken in Israel on Mideast tour to shore up Gaza truce

11:48 am May 25, 2021

Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at shoring up the Gaza cease-fire. He will face the same obstacles that have stifled a wider peace process for more than a decade, including a hawkish Israeli leadership, Palestinian divisions and deeply rooted tensions surrounding Jerusalem and its holy sites. The 11-day Gaza war […]

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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US reaches out to Arab leaders on Israel, Gaza fighting

9:25 pm May 18, 2021

Washington: Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his envoy reached out to Palestinian and regional Arab leaders on Tuesday as attacks between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers raged on, maintaining what the Biden administration is calling its quiet diplomacy while still declining to press for an immediate cease-fire. Blinken, speaking during an unrelated trip focusing […]

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US expels Russian diplomats, imposes sanctions for hacking

US expels Russian diplomats, imposes sanctions for hacking

10:14 pm April 15, 2021

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Thursday announced the U.S. is expelling 10 Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions against dozens of companies and people, holding the Kremlin accountable for interference in last year’s presidential election and the cyber hacking of federal agencies. The sweeping measures are meant to punish Russia for actions that U.S. officials say […]

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Report: Blinken offers plan to bolster Afghan peace process

10:56 am March 8, 2021

Washington: Secretary of State Antony Blinken is proposing a series of steps to help jumpstart Afghanistan’s stalled peace process between the government and Taliban, according to a letter from Blinken to Afghanistan’s president Ashra Ghani published Sunday by Afghanistan’s TOLONews. The letter calls for bringing the two sides together for a UN-facilitated conference with foreign ministers and envoys from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India and the United States “to discuss a unified approach […]

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