By Hyunsu Yim PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China constantly uses coercion and pressures other countries, including Japan and the Philippines, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said on Monday. Emanuel made the remark at…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Cooperation between the U.S. and China on methane is advancing, the deputy U.S. special envoy on climate change said on Tuesday, saying there was…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – NATO allies are warning Hungary of the dangers of its “close and expanding” relationship with Russia and if this is Budapest’s policy choice “we will have to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Middle East envoy Brett McGurk will travel to the region this week for continued talks on securing the release of hostages held by Palestinian Islamist group…
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. diplomat involved in humanitarian assistance for Gaza said on Friday that Israeli forces earlier this month killed Palestinian police protecting a…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, said on Tuesday she does not expect the alliance to issue a membership invitation to Ukraine at its summit in…
By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he anticipates that President Tayyip Erdogan will give a final sign-off on Sweden’s NATO membership within days, triggering rapid…
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Middle East envoy Brett McGurk is in Cairo and will travel in the region for “active” discussions on ensuring the release of hostages…
John Kerry, former U.S. senator and secretary of state, is set to leave his role as President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy. Kerry, 80, will transition to supporting Biden’s re-election…
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein said on Thursday he was hopeful diplomacy could calm tensions on the disputed border between Lebanon and Israel, where the Israeli military…
By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said on Friday he had started talks with Beijing on renewing a landmark scientific cooperation…
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Taiwan’s new de facto ambassador to the United States, Alexander Yui, arrived in Washington on Monday, according to a tweet from a U.S. official,…
SEOUL (Reuters) – The U.S. special representative for North Korea Sung Kim will join South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor as an adviser in January, the company said on Friday. Kim,…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The U.S. envoy to Budapest sharply criticised the Hungarian government on Tuesday for “disregarding” the interests of its NATO allies and strengthening ties with Russia at a…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The United States is “confident” that Sweden will soon be a member of NATO, the U.S. ambassador to Hungary said on Thursday, adding he had been assured…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – It will be “hard” to reach a deal on fully restoring the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) arbitration powers by a major meeting set for…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United States will roll over its suspension of tariffs on European Union steel and aluminium if the two sides need more time to agree on measures…
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The secessionist policy of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is a key challenge to the political settlement that ended Bosnia’s 1992-1995 ethnic war, international…
By Francois Murphy and Jonathan Landay VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia’s envoy to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said on Friday that Moscow will revoke its ratification of the…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ambassador to the United States said the Biden administration could help restore fraught relations by starting with “practical” steps, such as renewing a decades-old pact on…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – International mediators have stepped up efforts to prevent a new round of armed confrontation between Israel and the Islamist Hamas group, which runs Gaza,…
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. private companies would like to invest in Ukrainian energy, housing, infrastructure, agriculture, transport and mining, but Ukraine must make reforms in accountability and…
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon risks being “ostracised” by the international community if its nearly year-long presidential vacuum drags on further, France’s special envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian told a local Lebanese…
By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s first ambassador to the Palestinians described a decades-old Arab land-for-peace offer on Tuesday as a pillar of any normalisation of…