Blinken to urge end to violence on Middle East trip – World

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Egypt where he will urge an end to violence after a deadly Israeli raid, the State Department said Thursday.

Blinken will hold his first in-person talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the veteran leader returned to power leading Israel’s most right-wing government in history.

He will also meet in Ramallah with…