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Antony Blinken, the born and bred diplomat serving as US secretary of state
Antony Blinken was born in 1962 in Yonkers, New York. His career in foreign affairs isn't a huge surprise: his uncle "served as U.S. ambassador to Belgium, at the same time that Blinken's father ...
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‘Unpredictable': father of hostage, local pro-Palestine activist react to ceasefire
For months last year, pro-Palestinian protesters flanked the street outside Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s home. Their mission was to get Blinken and the Biden administration to stop ...
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Antony Blinken often cites his family’s Holocaust history. The Russia-Ukraine war has him stuck between the personal and the political.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Secretary of State Antony Blinken cited his family’s Holocaust-era history in explaining a matter of U.S. foreign policy on Monday, it was far from the first time he ...