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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomes Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, to the State Department. The two men are set to speak about the growing momentum toward a deal between the United States and the Taliban, as Qureshi warned the US not to return to the neglect of Afghanistan, as seen after 1989. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won't be making a final lap around Europe after all. His European was scrapped on Tuesday after Luxembourg's foreign minister and European Union officials refused to meet with him. According to Business Insider, a series of diplomats snubbed Pompeo. One diplomatic source says that America's European allies were 'embarrassed' by the deadly riot at the Capitol last week. A day after the siege, Asselborn publicly called President Donald Trump a 'criminal' and a 'political pyromaniac who should be sent to criminal court.'
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Kiev on Friday on his first trip to Ukraine, the country at the heart of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. IMAGES of Mike Pompeo meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko
The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias meets with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Athens. IMAGES
Leaving his house in London on Friday morning the newly appointed British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson condemned the fatal attacks in Nice on Thursday as "an absolutely appalling incident." Johnson added that he would be looking into any implications of the attack for the UK. A truck was driven into the Bastille Day crowds killing at least 84 on Thursday evening. The driver, a French citizen of Tunisian origin, was shot and killed by security forces at the scene. French President Francois Hollande has extended the State of Emergency.