Bloomberg US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East, President Joe Biden said, as the US continues to try to cement a fragile cease-fire that ended renewed conflict in Gaza. Biden announced the trip in a written statement on Monday morning, tasking Blinken with building ties with both Israelis and Palestinians. Blinken will visit Jerusalem, Ramallah, ...

Bloomberg The US imposed “wide-ranging” economic sanctions against Ethiopia to push the African nation led by a Nobel laureate to end violence in Tigray that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. Visas to government and military officials from Ethiopia and its neighbour Eritrea, which is also involved in the violence in Tigray, will be restricted, ...

Bloomberg Myanmar’s detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed her pro-democracy political party would continue its work despite being slated for dissolution in her first public appearance since her government was overthrown in a military coup. In a message passed to her lawyers ahead of a court appearance in the capital Naypyidaw on Monday, she said the National League ...