Antony Blinken

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The font style used in the U.S. State Department is changing, prompting complaints from employees who find the change to be an inconvenience. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent an email to the state department, headlined “The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,” ala Bob Dylan, saying they will be changing the font for high-level internal documents to the larger sans-serif font, Calibri, from Times New Roman, which has been used for more than two decades.Blinken said the department’s…

Applauding the efforts of the US-India Alliance for Women's Economic Empowerment that connects the private sector and civil society to help women grow their businesses, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Google India has committed to mentoring 1 million Indian women entrepreneurs.Launching US Strategy on Global Women's Economic Security here on Wednesday, Blinken also said that the Biden administration will promote women's entrepreneurship by addressing some of the challenges that too often hold women…

Seventy-two hours before they hoped to launch an unprecedented new plan to set a cap on the price of Russian oil, Biden administration officials faced a problem: Poland hadn’t yet signed off on the final design. With support from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Poland had pushed for setting the cap as low as $30 a barrel, an attempt to deeply cut the Kremlin’s oil revenues. But the U.S. and other Group of Seven advanced democracies sought a deal at $60 a barrel to hedge against the risk of sending global crude…

BANGKOK, Thailand—Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior Biden administration officials are using an Asian economic gathering to pursue closer business ties and press for higher environmental and labor standards in a part of the world where China has deep economic links. Ms. Harris is leading the U.S. delegation at the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders summit that begins Friday in the Thai capital, Bangkok—the first time in four…

A pair of Starlink satellites shoots across the sky in March of 2020. The satellites are seen as steaks because of the exposure.Photo: Alan Dyer (AP)SpaceX chief Elon Musk said he was activating his company’s Starlink internet service in Iran, which cut off web access to its more than 80 million citizens this week, after the U.S. Treasury Department eased sanctionsto help support the free flow of information in the country. In recent days, the Iranian government has carried out a swift and violent crackdown on the…

Flightradar24 has been suffering heavy loads since users started tracking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s flight from Malaysia.Screenshot: Flightradar24With about 5,000 airplanes in the sky right now, all the world is seemingly focused on just one. That includes Chinese, Taiwanese, and U.S. leadership, as well as internet users across the world and, apparently, hackers. Reuters first reported based on an anonymous source that the Taiwanese presidential website suffered a cyberattack early Tuesday. The report further claims…

Higher prices for food and energy are expected to dominate a divisive meeting of top diplomats from the world’s leading economies, with U.S. officials looking to put pressure on Russia to allow a freer flow of grain from war-torn Ukraine via the Black Sea.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinkenis set to meet with counterparts from the Group of 20 nations Friday on the Indonesian island of Bali—while avoiding Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. officials said. Higher prices for food and energy are expected to…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is pursuing a high-stakes deal with Russia, Turkey and other nations to open up Ukrainian food exports to world markets and stave off a potential global food shortage, according to diplomats familiar with the effort.Russia has sealed off Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to weaken the country and conquer its coast. Mr. Guterres has asked Moscow to permit some Ukrainian grain shipments in exchange for moves to ease Russian and Belarusian exports of…