CAIRO/WASHINGTON, March 22 — Israel's spy chief is due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the US plans to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the UN Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally.

WASHINGTON, June 17 — There has been no sign of improvement in the political situation in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said following a meeting in Washington with United States (US) Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he shared his counterpart's pessimism.

KHARTOUM, April 25 — Sudan's warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting on Tuesday, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country.

ANKARA, April 23 — The US has evacuated embassy staff and their families from Sudan’s capital Khartoum, where ongoing clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have claimed hundreds of lives.

KHARTOUM/CAIRO, April 19 — Residents in an affluent district of Khartoum feared there would be trouble when they found their new neighbour was a commander from a paramilitary force that protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 — The United States looks forward to deepening its friendship and cooperation with Malaysia based on shared democratic principles and respect for human rights and the rule of law under the leadership of the newly appointed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

BANGKOK, July 11 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday urged China and members of the Southeast Asian bloc Asean to put pressure on Myanmar's rulers to return to democracy and to hold it accountable for a peace deal agreed with the group.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 — The United States (US) Embassy in Kuala Lumpur had informed the Malaysian government of a positive Covid-19 case in the travelling party accompanying US Secretary of State Antony J.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 — The visit to Malaysia by US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken, among others, is to discuss electricity generation from renewable energy (RE) sources, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

JAKARTA, Dec 14 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday the United States would advance a free and open Indo-Pacific and deepen treaty alliances and defence and intelligence capabilities with partners in the region.