The Latest Breaking News from State Department

When more than 1,300 people at the U.S. State Department lost their jobs in a mass firing this summer, most headlines focused on what it meant for American diplomacy. But the layoffs are about more than embassies and foreign policy – they could also make it harder for U.S. companies…

The senators call for the protection of journalists in Gaza and international media access to the territory.

‘There are doctors in other countries. The US is not the world’s hospital!’ the far-right activist said

State Department move comes as Israel’s war and induced famine in Gaza reach new extremes, with 61,827 killed so far.

The state departments ‘human rights’ report under Trump differs hugely from those of previous administrations

COMMENT: An annual global human rights report from the US state department has declared that freedom of speech is under threat in the UK. The British are too polite to tell the Trump administration what we really think about that – but I’m not, writes Sean O’Grady

Their reviews are "not representative of women’s lives in Afghanistan."

The State Department released its new, scaled-down version of its annual human rights reports, causing condemnation from advocacy groups

South Africa has rejected a US government report accusing it of moving towards land seizures from white farmers, calling the allegation “deeply flawed” and “inaccurate”.