Saudi officials rebuff top US diplomat’s push during a visit to the Kingdom to normalize relations with Israel and win concessions on oil prices and Riyadh’s resumption of ties with Syria and Iran.

China says the balloon sighted over the United States is a civilian airship that was blown off its course.

Nicaragua has renewed a decade-long decree allowing Russian forces to train in the Central American country, causing further strains in relations between Managua and Washington.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells Haitian asylum-seekers not to make the “dangerous” trip to the United States.