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1 week ago | 
adn.com | John Hudson |Natalie Allison |Ellen Nakashima
Despite claims by the Defense Department to the contrary, legal teams representing the U.S. and Qatari governments have not finalized an agreement for transferring the luxury Boeing 747-8 jetliner that President Donald Trump wants for Air Force One amid outstanding requests by Qatar for Washington to clarify the transaction’s terms, said officials familiar with the matter.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
adn.com | Karen DeYoung |John Hudson |Missy Ryan |Alex Horton
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday approved a new waiver for lifesaving humanitarian assistance in a memo sent to aid groups amid widespread confusion over which programs in the roughly $60 billion foreign aid budget would be exempt from the Trump administration’s freeze on U.S. assistance.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
pressherald.com | John Hudson |Leigh Ann Caldwell |Josh Dawsey
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of state and has asked Rep. Mike Waltz to be the White House national security adviser, people familiar with the matter said Monday, elevating two Florida Republicans with more hawkish foreign policy views than those of the incoming president, who ran on a platform of restoring peace to a war-torn world.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Kareem Fahim |John Hudson
By Kareem Fahim, Loveday Morris and John Hudson September 7, 2024 — 10.34am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Washington: An American woman has been killed in the occupied West Bank, the State Department said. Two witnesses said the woman was shot in the head by Israeli forces who had opened fire.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Steve Hendrix |Mohamad El Chamaa |John Hudson |Susannah George |John Hudson |Suzan Haidamous
Miriam Hadad, 60, sits with her neighbours Bashira Bahdadt, 68, left, and Edmund Muklashi, 78, on the porch of her home in Haifa on Sunday.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | John Hudson |John Hudson |Shira Rubin
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks during a Nato public forum as part of the 2024 Nato Summit on July 10, 2024 in Washington DC. Photo / Getty ImagesHamas directly criticised President Joe Biden on Tuesday, saying his comments that the militant group is “backing away” from a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip caused “great astonishment and disapproval” and demonstrated “blind bias” toward Israel.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
adn.com | John Hudson |John Hudson
A senior State Department official and skeptic of the Biden administration’s “bear hug” approach to the government of Israel resigned this week in a setback for U.S. diplomats pushing for a sharper break with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition, said three people familiar with the matter. Andrew Miller, the deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, told colleagues Friday that he had decided to leave his job.
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May 30, 2024 | 
adn.com | John Hudson |John Hudson |Emily Rauhala
PRAGUE - The United States is actively weighing whether to lift one of President Biden’s longest-held precautionary measures of the Ukraine war: a ban on the use of U.S.-provided weapons to strike inside Russia.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
nwaonline.com | John Hudson |Rachel Chason
A senior U.S. Air Force leader deployed in Niger is raising an alarm over the Biden administration's reluctance to heed an eviction notice from the military junta that last year overthrew the West African nation's democratically elected government.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
adn.com | Hannah Allam |John Hudson |John Hudson
A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resignedWednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza, the latest example of dissent among government personnel bursting into public view. Annelle Sheline, 38, stepped down after a year as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, with nearly half that tenure marked by the war Israel launched in response to a devastating Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
