Diplomacy threads follow summits, treaties, sanctions design, and back-channel signals when negotiations—not only troop movements—carry the piece.
22 Newsorga stories grouped around “Diplomacy”, published from 2026-05-06 through 2026-05-16. Most pieces are in World and Politics. Newest first below.
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World
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on 15 May 2026 in Abu Dhabi on the first leg of a five-country tour, with reporting from the capital describing a focus on energy security after Strait of Hormuz disruption, new energy-sector agreements, and condemnation of Iran’s strikes on the UAE.
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World
Gaza medics said Israeli airstrikes on 15 May 2026 killed at least seven Palestinians, including three women and a child, and wounded dozens, while Israel’s prime minister and defence minister said the operation aimed at Izz al-Din al-Haddad—Hamas’s armed wing chief in the Strip—with neither side confirming his fate.
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World
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed has instructed ADNOC to speed up a second West–East crude line to Fujairah—aimed at doubling export capacity around the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint—with CNBC reporting a 2027 in-service target as Gulf volumes and tanker routing remain stressed by the wider Iran–Israel conflict.
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World
With Chinese state media confirming a May 13–15, 2026 state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Xi Jinping meeting will sit atop parallel ministerial trade talks in Seoul, unfinished implementation from last autumn’s Busan truce, and acute geopolitical stress over the Middle East and Taiwan—this guide separates what is on the public record from what remains negotiation space.
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World
As Donald Trump flew to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing in May 2026, the president openly said he would discuss U.S. arms sales to Taiwan—adding that Xi “would like us not to”—while a roughly $14 billion package remained in limbo and bipartisan senators warned that American support for Taiwan must not be traded away.
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Politics
President Donald Trump plans to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing on a state visit from May 13 through May 15, 2026, after earlier delay talk around the widening Iran conflict. Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and other chief executives appear on advance guest lists, but tariffs, export controls, oil sanctions, and paperwork for aircraft and chips will decide whether the visit changes facts on the ground.
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World
Vladimir Putin suggested former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as a go-between for Russia and the European Union on Ukraine. Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels treated the idea as dead on arrival, pointing to Schroeder’s years of paid proximity to Gazprom-era diplomacy.
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World
Iran has informed India that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi's attendance at the May 14-15, 2026 BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi is 'on his agenda at this stage,' the Times of India reported, although subsequent reporting from The Print on May 7 and the Economic Times on May 11 indicates Araghchi is now considered unlikely to travel — with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi expected to lead the Iranian delegation instead — as Tehran weighs the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire from the late-February-to-early-April war, studies a 14-point US peace proposal routed via Pakistan that would freeze its uranium enrichment for at least 12 years, and prepares for the first face-to-face encounter between Iranian, Emirati and Saudi Arabian senior diplomats since the conflict began; the meeting, chaired by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar under India's 2026 BRICS presidency, will see Hormuz safe-passage talks for 40-50 trapped India-bound tankers held on the sidelines and is a key staging post for the 18th BRICS Summit Delhi is expected to host in September 2026.
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World
Chinese state media reported Monday May 11, 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to China from May 13 to 15 at President Xi Jinping's invitation; ahead of the summit, Beijing's public vocabulary on ties with Washington continues to pair cooperation with difference-management, including Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun's March formulation that economic issues should be settled through consultation on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit, and Xi's February phone remark that if both sides work in the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit they can find ways to address concerns while enhancing dialogue and expanding practical cooperation.
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Politics
The correct surname is Fernández—not ‘Fernandiz.’ Laura Virginia Fernández Delgado, a political scientist from Puntarenas, became Costa Rica’s 50th president on 8 May 2026 after winning the February first round outright; she extends Rodrigo Chaves’s movement while promising a security-heavy agenda.
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World
Emmanuel Macron is staging a three-stop African itinerary built around the Nairobi “Africa Forward” innovation-and-growth summit on 11–12 May—Paris’s highest-profile attempt in years to rebalance engagement toward eastern Africa and partnerships framed as reciprocal rather than residual post-colonial patronage.
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World
At a Kremlin press conference following Moscow’s Victory Day observances, Vladimir Putin said he would rather speak with Germany’s ex-chancellor than other European figures—adding conditions about tone toward Russia while Gerhard Schröder’s office stayed silent and Berlin withheld any formal mandate.
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World
Slovakia’s prime minister defended his Kremlin visit—the only EU leader reportedly welcomed there on 9 May 2026—and used an inflight video to reject a ‘new Iron Curtain’ while attacking EU energy-decoupling plans as ideological and costly.
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World
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters in Moscow on Saturday May 9, 2026 — Victory Day — that the war he launched against Ukraine more than four years ago was 'coming to an end,' even as he reaffirmed in his Red Square address that 'victory has always been and will be ours'; the parade itself was dramatically pared back, with no tanks, no nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles and no heavy weapons of any kind on display, the Kremlin confirmed a Donald-Trump-brokered three-day ceasefire would not be extended despite the US president's preference for a 'big extension,' and Volodymyr Zelensky issued an unusual decree 'permitting' Russia to hold the parade after agreeing Ukrainian forces would not target Red Square during the truce.
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World
A Wall Street Journal investigation cited people familiar with the matter—including US officials—as saying Israel built a remote installation in western Iraq before the 2026 air campaign against Iran, stockpiling logistics and rescue capacity until March friction with Iraqi troops allegedly drew strikes; wires cautioned they could not independently verify the account.
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World
London told Beijing’s envoy the espionage verdicts against two dual nationals crossed a sovereignty red line; ministers framed transnational pressure on dissidents as intolerable while Chinese diplomats dismissed the trial as lawfare.
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World
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani—parliament speaker for twelve years, nuclear-deal shepherd, and wartime security chief—died in reported Israeli air action around Tehran on 17 March 2026 amid the expanded US–Israel–Iran war; Russian President Vladimir Putin soon after messaged Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei with condolences praising Larijani’s role in Moscow–Tehran ties.
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World
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan chairs Yerevan’s side of the bilateral border commissions; the 29 April 2026 Aghveran session—the 13th joint meeting—produced agreed draft texts on expert-group rules, mapping, and publication formalities now awaiting cabinet-level approval, plus trade and transit talking points both capitals emphasised.
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World
After a stripped-down Victory Day parade, Vladimir Putin told Kremlin reporters the “matter” in Ukraine is nearing closure—hinting at diplomatic openings while attaching stiff conditions to any lasting settlement or Zelensky meeting.
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World
A reported high-tension call between Donald Trump and Denmark's Prime Minister over Greenland has triggered diplomatic fallout claims. Here is what is confirmed, what is reported, and what remains unclear.
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