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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Hannah Beech |Edward Wong
By Hannah Beech and Edward Wong March 31, 2025 — 11.59am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bangkok: China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Hannah Beech |Edward Wong
Bangkok: China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing. ... Want to unlock unlimited news? Read more award-winning journalism from as little as 50c a day. Get startedAlready a subscriber? Login to see the full article.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
spokesman.com | Farnaz Fassihi |Emma Bubola |Edward Wong
When an Italian journalist was arrested in Iran in December, her boyfriend back home feared she might linger in prison for years. So, amid talk that Iran and Italy were negotiating a prisoner swap that involved the United States, he says, he decided to try to get a message to someone who might be in a position to help. His name was Elon Musk.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Edward Wong |Farnaz Fassihi
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Tuesday that it did not plan to decrease weapons aid to Israel, as a 30-day deadline set by the Biden administration passed without the country substantially improving the humanitarian situation in the war-devastated Gaza Strip. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had warned in a letter dated Oct.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Ben Hubbard |Edward Wong |Michael Shear |Maria Abi-Habib |Ben Hubbard |Edward Wong
Everything appeared to be heading in the right direction for a breakthrough in Middle East peacemaking, to avert a spiraling war that would embroil the region. Officials from the United Nations, France and the United States had drafted a statement calling for a three-week cease-fire aimed at preventing a broader conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, and shared it with the two sides to consider.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Edward Wong |Julian Barnes |Helene Cooper
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Edward Wong |Michael Crowley |Valerie Hopkins |Edward Wong |Valerie Hopkins
WASHINGTON — A day after U.S. officials said Ukraine could use American weapons in limited strikes inside Russia, a deepfake video of a U.S. spokesperson discussing the policy appeared online. The fabricated video, which is drawn from actual footage, shows State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller seeming to suggest that the Russian city of Belgorod, just 25 miles north of Ukraine’s border with Russia, was a legitimate target for such strikes.
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May 25, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Edward Wong |Patrick Kingsley
Diplomats are aiming to restart negotiations for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas at some point in the next week, according to three officials briefed on the process, rekindling hopes of an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip even as Israel presses ahead with its campaign there.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
hawaiitribune-herald.com | Edward Wong |Adam Rasgon
JERUSALEM — Israeli negotiators, offering a hint of hope for negotiations over a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, have reduced the number of hostages they want Hamas to release during the first phase of a truce, three Israeli officials said Monday. For weeks, cease-fire talks have been at a standstill. Now, with the new proposal in hand, a mid-ranking delegation from Israel was planning to fly to Cairo on Tuesday to resume them — but only if Hamas agrees to attend, according to two of the officials.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Edward Wong |Eric Nagourney |Patrick Kingsley |Adam Rasgon
JERUSALEM — Israeli negotiators, offering a hint of hope for negotiations over a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, have reduced the number of hostages they want Hamas to release during the first phase of a truce, three Israeli officials said Monday. For weeks, cease-fire talks have been at a standstill. Now, with the new proposal in hand, a mid-ranking delegation from Israel was planning to fly to Cairo on Tuesday to resume them — but only if Hamas agrees to attend, according to two of the officials.
