Department of State

The U.S. State Department has proposed a mid-January deadline to finish its review and release 55,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's work emails she sent through a private server and has since turned over to the department. 

The United States expressed "deep concern" May 17 after an Egyptian court sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others to death for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.

The United States and Cuba will hold another meeting in the coming weeks in Washington on reopening embassies, the latest step in their historic rapprochement, Havana's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said May 13.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry began high stakes talks in the Russian resort of Sochi on May 12 aimed at pushing President Vladimir Putin to fully implement a shaky Ukraine ceasefire.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson who was called a ?stupid blonde? by the mayor of Ankara has voiced surprise that journalists are still interested in the issue.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is meeting on Friday with the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Amos J. Hochstein. The meeting will take place at the Foreign ministry at 10.30 a.m.

By Sotiris Sideris

The government is keen to hear US proposals regarding Greece?s role in Washington?s energy strategy, especially the Americans? counterproposal to the Russian-sponsored Turkish Stream pipeline and its extension to Greece, when Amos Hochstein, the State Department?s Coordinator on International Energy Affairs, visits Athens on Friday.

John Kerry made a surprise trip to Somalia on May 5, officials said, becoming the first US secretary of state to visit the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.

The US maintains "a robust presence", in the waters near the Strait of Hormuz "to deter destabilizing activities," State Department Spokesman Jeff Rathke has said.

The Philippines' most wanted Islamist militant, whose death at the weekend could boost peace efforts in the country's south, was killed by his own bodyguards in pursuit of a bounty offered by the United States, the head of the military said on May 4.