Antony Blinken

US secretary of state antony blinken blamed Hamas for the end of a week-long truce, saying the group had reneged on its commitments and fired rockets that killed and wounded civilians. “It came to an end because of Hamas,” he told reporters on the tarmac in Dubai. He said Hamas had committed “an atrocious terrorist attack in Jerusalem” that killed three people and “reneged on commitments it made, in terms of releasing certain hostages.” Blinken spoke hours after Israel and Hamas resumed their war.

US secretary of state antony blinken and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov briefly met in Delhi on Thursday, their first contact in months amid escalating tension over the Ukraine conflict. Blinken and Lavrov had a very brief interaction on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, a Russian official said.

US Secretary of State antony blinken on Friday took a ride in an auto-rickshaw in Delhi. Blinken was on a three-day India visit to take part in the G-20 Summit.

A surge in the hate crime and targeted attacks against Sikhs in the US has forced the North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) to request US secretary of state antony blinken to address the issue.

While the US and India avoided a stumble on human rights issues on Wednesday, visiting secretary of state antony blinken sent a strong message to China by meeting representative of the Dalai Lama and separately meeting an official in the Tibetan government in exile.

US Secretary of State antony blinken on Tuesday echoed remarks recently made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Ukraine conflict and said that the US "could not agree more that this is not an era of war". Blinken made the comments during a joint press conference with external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar.

US Secretary of State antony blinken has extended wishes to the people of India on its 77th Independence Day. He stated that India and US have a "strong bond" as the two nations work together for a world that is open, prosperous, secure, stable and resilient.

Vedanta Patel will be serving as the interim spokesperson of the US state department, taking over from Ned Price. Price will continue to work directly for antony blinken at the state department.

US secretary of state antony blinken met a representative of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the Indian capital on Wednesday, a state department spokesperson said. "Secretary Blinken had an opportunity to meet briefly this morning in New Delhi with a representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama," the official said, identifying the representative as Ngodup Dongchung.

US State Secretary antony blinken said that the country believed that a ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to regroup and carry out the attack. Till now the war has killed over 1400 people in Israel, this is the worst assault in the country's history. Blinken made his comments at a news conference in Amman, alongside his Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts who have repeatedly urged for an immediate cessation of hostilities.

The United States has warned Iran and its allies against any escalation in the wake of Israel's war with Hamas."We are concerned at the possibility of Iranian proxies escalating their attacks against our own personnel, our own people," Secretary of State antony blinken said on CBS News. "We expect there is a likelihood of escalation. No one should take advantage of this moment to escalate to further attacks on Israel or, for that matter, attacks on us on our personnel."

India will press for gradual resumption of international travel, while maintaining health protocols on US Secretary of State antony blinken's visit to India, sources said.US Secretary of State antony blinken will arrive in New Delhi late Tuesday, to discuss with Indian officials the agenda of expanding our security, defense cyber, and counterterrorism cooperation.

antony blinken made the comments after a surprise visit to Ukraine while en route to Brussels where he said he would be discussing energy security at a meeting with Nato representatives. "There's also a tremendous opportunity ... finally once and for all, to move away from this dependence on Russia, to get rid of the chokehold that Russia has on Europe, using energy as a weapon, and to diversify supply, diversify routes," Blinken said.

External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met US secretary of state antony blinken in Washington. The meeting comes amid serious diplomatic tensions between India and Canada stirred by the killing of a Khalistani terrorist.

Arab leaders have called for an immediate ceasefire in Israel's offensive in Gaza, but US Secretary of State antony blinken argued that a halt to the fighting now would only allow Hamas to regroup and attack Israel again. Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Israel in response to the country's refusal to agree to a ceasefire. The health ministry in Gaza reports that over 9,480 Gazans, mostly women and children, have been killed so far in Israeli strikes.

US Secretary of State antony blinken met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in Tel Aviv, according to a pool of reporters travelling with the secretary, CNN reported. The US State Secretary is in Israel for meetings with key government officials to press for a "humanitarian pause" as international and domestic US pressure to end the conflict in Gaza continues to mount, reported CNN.

"I can confirm that yesterday we had an American diplomatic convoy that was fired on. All of our people are safe and unharmed. But this action was reckless, it was irresponsible and of course unsafe," US Secretary of State antony blinken told reporters in Japan after G7 talks.

"We're seeing the impact of this Russian aggression playing out everywhere. It may have contributed to the situation in Sri Lanka; we're concerned about the implications around the world," Blinken told reporters in Bangkok.