The Latest Breaking News from Antony Blinken

This week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Beijing — the latest, welcome effort by Washington to inject stability into a dangerously fraught U.S.-China relationship.

The foreign minister says the US must ‘stop interfering’ if it wants to restore strained ties between the two countries.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state Visit, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said economic ties are at the heart of the Indo-U.S. strategic partnership and added that trade between the two countries reached a record $191 billion, making the U.S. the largest trading partner for India

Russian president says Russia needs to ‘fight enemy agents’ inside its own territory; Maj Gen Sergei Goryachev killed by cruise missile

US officials say China has for years operated spying facilities in Cuba that were upgraded in 2019.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken says Ukraine should expect ‘robust’ political and practical support from the Nato summit

Effort is being stepped up to rebuild relations after the spy ballon incident led to Blinken’s original visit being cancelled

China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, as part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence capabilities

The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria says hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them