{"id":38483,"date":"2025-02-14T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38483"},"modified":"2025-02-14T03:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T09:15:43","slug":"sec-of-state-marco-rubio-en-route-to-germany-after-plane-suffers-mechanical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38483","title":{"rendered":"Sec. of State Marco Rubio en route to Germany after plane suffers mechanical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s plane experienced a mechanical issue while en route to Munich,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/germany-christmas-market-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Germany<\/a>, on Thursday, according to a State Department spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The plane turned around returned to Joint Base Andrews before Rubio continued his travel to Germany and the Middle East on a separate aircraft, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rubio is now safely en route to Munich on a smaller aircraft, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rubio is headed to Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference and to participate in the G7 Foreign Ministers&#8217; Meeting, according to the State Department.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/rubio-intention-uproot-usaid-workers-abroad\/story?id=118540809\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He will then travel to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israel<\/a>, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to meet with senior officials, according to the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Secretary Rubio&#8217;s engagements with senior officials will promote U.S. interests in advancing regional cooperation, stability, and peace,&#8221; the State Department said of the trip, adding that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal will be a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/sec-state-marco-rubios-plane-germany-experiences-mechanical\/story?id=118810447\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s plane experienced a mechanical issue while en route to Munich,&nbsp;Germany, on Thursday, according to a State Department spokesperson. The plane turned around returned to Joint Base Andrews before Rubio continued his travel to Germany and the Middle East on a separate aircraft, the spokesperson added. Rubio is now safely en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1498,32356,1375],"class_list":["post-38483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-germany","tag-rubio","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38486,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38483\/revisions\/38486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}