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  • PGA Tour lines up U.S. funding as Saudi talks near endgame

    The PGA Tour is lining up outside funding as it enters a pivotal week in its effort to hammer out a deal with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

  • Israel sharply ramps up Gaza strikes, U.S. alarmed

     Israel sharply ramped up strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that Washington said veered from Israeli promises to do more to protect civilians.

    The Israeli military said on Friday it had struck more than 450 targets in Gaza from land, sea and air over the past 24 hours - the most since a truce collapsed last week and about double the daily figures typically reported since then.

  • U.S. still wants to see Saudi-Israel normalisation, energy envoy says

    "I think that not every road is a straight road and sometimes it goes in different directions first. But the goal is still the same," Hochstein said speaking on the sidelines of an industry event in the United Arab Emirates. "And we remain as committed to that goal of regional integration, and it's not just about Saudi Arabia and Israel, it has to be much broader than that."

  • Israel now willing to discuss post-war vision for Gaza, U.S. officials say

    Israel is showing more willingness to discuss plans for Gaza after the war, according to two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of talks this week between the Israeli government and the Biden administration.

  • How the U.S. Market Went Sideways for a Wind-Power Giant

    Denmark’s national oil-and-gas company, now known as Ørsted, bet big on renewables a decade ago. It renounced fossil fuels, renamed itself after a 19th-century physicist and embarked on a debt-fueled expansion, becoming the biggest offshore-wind developer outside China. Surfing investor enthusiasm for all things green, Ørsted surpassed BP in market value early in the pandemic.

  • U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables

    The announcement comes as President Biden prepares to meet Wednesday with President Xi Jinping of China for their first face-to-face discussion in a year. The climate agreement could emerge as a bright spot in talks that are likely to focus on sensitive topics including Taiwan, the war in Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas.

  • U.S. military strikes more Syrian facilities

    U.S. military aircraft attacked two facilities in eastern Syria on Sunday, in retaliation for a string of attacks on American personnel in Iraq and Syria in recent months. It’s the second set of airstrikes in less than a week.

    The strikes were “proportionate, precision” attacks designed to destroy the facilities and limit the capabilities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and related groups, a defense spokesperson told reporters traveling with the defense secretary in the Indo-Pacific region Monday.

  • Can U.S. Diplomacy Promote Peace in the Israel-Palestine War?

    Moreover, the Americans have also continued to back the idea of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would live in peace side-by-side with the Jewish State, the so-called “two-state solution.” It’s an idea that also enjoys support among 35 percent of the Israeli public and the center-left political parties. However, the current Likud-led Israeli government rejects it. From that perspective, the United States may be in a position very much like in 1973 to promote a creative diplomatic approach in the Middle East. This would build both on Israel’s military strength and the containment of Iran while helping the Palestinians achieve their goal of political independence and economic recovery.

  • U.S. diplomats slam Israel policy in leaked memo

    The memo has two key requests: that the U.S. support a ceasefire, and that it balance its private and public messaging toward Israel, including airing criticisms of Israeli military tactics and treatment of Palestinians that the U.S. generally prefers to keep private.  The gap between America’s private and public messaging “contributes to regional public perceptions that the United States is a biased and dishonest actor, which at best does not advance, and at worst harms, U.S. interests worldwide,” the document states.

  • U.S. messaging shifts amid rising Gaza death toll

    The White House appeared to be shifting its public messaging to reveal more private U.S. pressure and disagreements in its discussions with Israeli officials amid a growing international and domestic outcry about Palestinian casualties in Israel’s war in Gaza and following the latest visits by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and CIA Director William Burns to the region.