Category: World

The vital humanitarian corridor will allow the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to scale up assistance to 14 areas facing famine in Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum and Al Jazirah. Convoys primed to go “As we speak, two convoys with nearly 6,000 metric tons of food and nutrition supplies for around half a million people, are being […]

The below is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel: Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Richard Verma met with senior Nepali officials in Kathmandu on August 16 to advance shared priorities in economic development, women’s empowerment, energy, and people-to-people ties.  In his meetings with Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and Foreign Minister […]

Israel’s once and future ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, channeled his biblical namesake, Daniel, when he came up with the title for his 2022 memoir about his five-year stint as UN ambassador: In the Lion’s Den. Danon, poised on August 20 to formally become the first Israeli diplomat to serve twice in this capacity, […]

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Ukraine on the occasion of the sixth U.S.-Ukraine Cyber Dialogue. Begin Text Senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on August 14, 2024, in Kyiv, Ukraine to convene the sixth round of the U.S.-Ukraine Cyber Dialogue, an annual […]

U.S. Department of State Counselor Tom Sullivan and U.S. Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator Michael Schiffer convened a virtual meeting today with leading members of Burma’s opposition movement, including the pro-democracy “National Unity Government” (NUG) and the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), as well as key resistance organizations, the Karen National Union (KNU), Karenni […]

Overview The British consulate can provide a range of notarial and documentary services for British nationals in Peru. For all services provided by the FCDO, please visit GOV.UK. Where local notaries can provide services, the British consulate will not provide them. In many cases local notaries or lawyers can provide services more cheaply, quickly and […]

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Israel on August 17 to continue intensive diplomatic efforts to conclude the agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees through the bridging proposal presented today by the United States, with support from Egypt and Qatar.  This proposal would achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, […]

Clare Williams was in her early 30s when she received an unexpected diagnosis: obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), the most common sleep-related breathing disorder. Unlike the typical sufferer, she was young, petite and female. Those diagnosed with OSA are usually overweight, male and middle-aged. ‘For a long time, doctors dismissed my symptoms because I didn’t fit […]

Deputy Undersecretary Secretary for International Affairs Thea Lee hosts and Ambassador Sonia Guzmán of the Dominican Republic participate in a signing ceremony as part of our Consular Partnership Program. I’ve seen firsthand how the department’s partnerships with the consulates of other countries can make a real difference in workers’ lives. Looking back over my 37-year […]

MR PATEL: Good afternoon, everybody. QUESTION: Good afternoon. MR PATEL: I don’t have any comments to offer at the top. Daphne, you want to kick us off? QUESTION: Yeah, thank you. On Gaza, Hamas has said it would not take part in a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks slated for tomorrow. Are your partners […]