President Xi Jinping of China met with the U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken meet on Friday.
Mr Blinken did not confirm an alleged attack by Israel on Iran overnight and said only that the U.S. was not involved in any offensive operations.
American entertainers are increasingly collaborating with their Nigerian counterparts and U.S. creative companies like Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Sony, NBC Universal, and YouTube.
Mr Blinken is on the second stop of a four-nation tour of Africa, taking him to Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Angola from January 21 to 26.
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The conflict has spread to Lebanon, where the Hezbollah militia has been firing rockets across the Israeli border in support of Hamas.
Hamas on Thursday released eight Israeli hostages in Gaza under a last-minute extension of a truce deal, and Israel freed 30 Palestinian prisoners.
CNN said President Joe Biden’s administration has offered to exchange imprisoned Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for Griner and Whelan.
