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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 meets with United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan at the State Department a day after the UAE alongside Bahrain signed a peace treaty normalizing relations with Israel. IMAGES
"It is up to China to decide who their foreign minister is," US Department of State deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel tells reporters after China's Forieng Minister Qin Gang was removed from office, according to Chinese state media. SOUNDBITE
Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias welcomes the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Foreign Ministry in Athens. IMAGES
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