The Latest Breaking News from Antony Blinken

Hamas says hundreds injured after refugee camp strikes; the US president responded to an anti-war protestor saying he supports a humanitarian ‘pause’

At least 355 foreign passport holders – including confirmed British, US, French, Italian and Austrian nationals – and 76 wounded Palestinians crossed on Wednesday to Egypt from Gaza, according to an Egyptian official. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said a second Israeli bombing raid in two days had killed and wounded…

Silent protestors also sat in the chamber with red-painted hands raised and signs demanding a cease-fire

‘Blinken, you have blood on your hands! Murderer!’ protester yells at secretary of state during senate hearing

US secretary of state Antony Blinken and secretary of defence Lloyd Austin as set to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee over Joe Biden’s $106 billion supplemental funding request.

It took just a few hours after Hamas’s assault on Israel for Qatar’s prime minister to assemble a team at an undisclosed location in the capital, Doha. As the images emerged of missile attacks, gun men on motorbikes and hostages seized across the border from Gaza, the Gulf state’s leadership…

Prime minister pushed back on idea of US president personally stepping in, but Gabriel Shipton calls prosecution ‘entirely political’

US president and senior aides meet with Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, after which White House says it is ‘working towards’ top-level talks

Secretary of state Antony Blinken made request of Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed during frantic trip to Doha