US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he's focused on preventing a wider conflict in the Middle East during his visit to the region. He's holding talks about the next phase of Israel's campaign and plans for post-war Gaza. Follow for live updates.
A Texas pizza shop owner who was stranded in Gaza with limited supplies for weeks was able to safely cross into Egypt on Saturday, his wife told CNN Sunday.
Communications in Gaza have been disrupted for a third time since the current Israel-Hamas conflict began, with telecom operators reporting outages Sunday and aid agencies saying they can't contact their teams in the strip.
of the recent blinken visit and now ahead of janet yellen s visit as well. expectations of any kind of breakthrough in relations very much being played down. what the biden administration seemed to be trying to do, as you were saying, is to kind of cool down tensions after relations really hit a bit of a rough patch. of course, people will remember the downing of what the americans said was a chinese spy balloon over us skies. the chinese said it was a weather balloon that had been blown off course. and then recently there have been these what some described as near misses between us and chinese military as well. and so when antony blinken went out there, there was talk of trying to establish lines of communication, crisis communication, tojust avoid anything spilling over into any kind of conflict. and i think nowjanet yellen to some degree going with the same message, saying these two hugely important countries need to keep talking and to just