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Jan. 10 | Manama, Bahrain

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, is received by Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani upon his arrival during his week-long trip across the Middle East. Blinken arrived in the Gulf state, home base of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, for talks with King Hamad on preventing a regional escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, the State Department said.

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