McCarthy was the highest-level US official to meet with a Taiwanese president since the 1979 diplomatic shift

Two officials from the Treasury Department will visit European allies to demand trade with Russia ends

The ceasefire expired last October, but there has still been no Saudi airstrikes in Yemen or Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia

US Air National Guard will deploy 100 aircraft as part of the drills

Israel has ramped up airstrikes in Syria and recently killed two members of Iran's IRGC

The comments came after an aide to Zelensky suggested Ukraine could be open to negotiating the issue with Moscow

Macron is in China with the EU's European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who said Xi wants to talk with Zelensky

Poland and the Baltic States want to want to offer Ukraine clearer statements on its future NATO membership

Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to reopen their embassies on Thursday after their foreign ministers met in China

He also says NATO will work on making Ukraine more interoperable with the alliance as a long-term project

An aide to Zelensky told <I>Financial Times</I> Ukraine will talk if it retakes the territory Russia controls to the north of the peninsula

<I>POLITICO</I> reports China has effectively frozen high-level contact with the US