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TopicUS Secretary of State

Topic: US Secretary of State

US suspends visas for foreign truckers after Indian driver kills 3 in Florida

US Secy of State Marco Rubio announces all visas for foreign commercial truck drivers is currently paused following the arrest of Harjinder Singh, who was involved in the accident.

Echoing Trump & Musk’s stance, Marco Rubio skips South Africa G20 meet over ‘racist’ land law

Criticised by Trump, Musk and now Rubio, post-apartheid law allows expropriation of land under very narrow circumstances in a country where White minority owns lion’s share of farmland.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to return to Israel, says Arab nations don’t want war to spread

Blinken will talk 'about the way forward' in Israel following several days of shuttle diplomacy between Arab states. Israel-Hamas conflict has raised concerns of a wider regional war.

US Secretary of State Blinken warns of China’s ‘problematic behaviour’ during visit to Tonga

Antony Blinken said that the US had no objection to China's engagement with the region until its investments are transparent and undertaken with sustainable finance.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to travel to China for diplomatic talks

Blinken likely to meet with officials in Beijing on 18 June. Washington's top diplomat scrapped planned trip earlier this year over suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US.

‘International migraine’: With Imran on brink, recalling what Madeleine Albright called Pakistan

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died last week, had twice—in 2008 and 2013 — called Pakistan an international migraine.

Why Colin Powell’s death from Covid complications argues for vaccines, not against it

Powell, who was fighting multiple myeloma, needed as many people around him as possible to be vaccinated to diminish his chances of encountering the virus.

On Camera

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

LPG shortage threatens to push poorer Indian households back to coal days—exactly what the Modi govt phased out.

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.