United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been at the center of several fast moving developments in recent days, underscoring how assertive his approach to diplomacy has become in the Trump administration’s second term.

According to Reuters, Rubio sharply warned Rwanda after M23 rebels seized the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just days after a Washington peace accord brokered by President Donald Trump and signed by the leaders of Congo and Rwanda. Rubio said Rwanda’s actions in eastern Congo are a clear violation of the Washington accords and pledged that the United States will take action to ensure promises made to the president are kept. At the United Nations, American diplomats accused Rwanda of fueling instability as the advance by M23 threatened to derail the new peace deal.

Rubio also responded swiftly to terrorism overseas. Coverage from ANI News and The Tribune in India reports that he condemned the deadly shooting at a Jewish celebration near Bondi Beach in Australia, calling it a terrorist attack and stressing that antisemitism has no place in this world. He offered condolences and said the United States stands with the victims, the Jewish community, and the Australian people.

Inside the State Department, Rubio has drawn attention for a symbolic but politically charged decision about how American diplomacy looks on paper. Bloomberg and Scripps News report that on December ninth he ordered the department to abandon the Calibri font adopted in twenty twenty three under Antony Blinken and return to Times New Roman for all official and diplomatic communications. Rubio framed the earlier accessibility focused switch as a wasteful diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility move and argued that Times New Roman better reflects the formality and professionalism expected of United States documents. The Financial Express notes that the directive has been interpreted as part of a broader rollback of diversity and inclusion initiatives across federal agencies.

These moves come as Rubio continues to shape wider policy, from backing stricter security vetting for visa applicants, highlighted by the Presidential Prayer Team, to steering the administration’s hard line stances in regions such as the Middle East and Latin America described by InDepthNews.

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