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U.S.-China Trade: In February 2021, the U.S. trade deficit in goods with China expanded 53.9 percent year-on-year to $24.6 billion, marking the largest year-on-year...

MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The U.S. team mediating the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Boundary negotiations, led by Ambassador John P. Desrocher, will travel to Lebanon on...

PRESS STATEMENT NED PRICE, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON Secretary of State Antony Blinken is attending the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting in London, United Kingdom, May 3-5, 2021. ...

One tends to think of mountain glaciers as slow moving, their gradual passage down a mountainside visible only through a long series of satellite...

Near-total disappearance of food sources has created a ‘full-blown nutrition emergency’ in southern Madagascar, World Food Programme warns. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/famine-looms-in-southern-madagascar-uns-food-agency-says

Attacks marked major intensification in violence that has wreaked havoc across Cabo Delgado province for over three years. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/un-nearly-30000-flee-mozambique-attacks-since-late-march

Hamas says President Abbas’s decision ‘coup against the path of national partnership and consensus’. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/palestinian-factions-reject-abbas-decision-to-delay-polls

Critics say Palestinian leader using the Jerusalem issue as an excuse to avoid elections that a divided Fatah might well lose to Hamas. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/palestinians-polls-hamas-plo

Anthony H. Cordesman One of the odd side effects of both the U.S. focus on withdrawal from Afghanistan and on the possible revival of the...