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Amanda Knox, the American convicted of murdering her British housemate in Italy two years ago, feels her "rights were respected" in the trial, a leading Italian daily reported Wednesday.
Car bombs killed at least 112 people in the heart of the Iraqi capital Tuesday, striking government buildings despite a security crackdown after a series of high-profile attacks.
December 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2009) - The internationally acclaimed African Children's Choir (R)(TM) performed for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last night, at a tribute dinner hosted by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition at The Grand Hyatt Washington in D.C. Secretary Clinton shared her vision for a U.S. foreign policy that elevates diplomacy and ...
On Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal is far from inspiring.
WASHINGTON — The FBI has belatedly awarded $100,000 to a former Minnesota flight school manager whose phone tip eight years ago led to the arrest of al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, but the bureau gave nothing to a man widely credited as a second tipster.
The State Department is cutting ties with the security contractor protecting the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan following an investigation of allegations that guards engaged in lewd behavior and sexual misconduct at their living quarters.
The State Department will not renew the contract of a security company embroiled in a scandal involving the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, where guards were accused of drunken conduct and sexual hazing.
Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, who was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pollster in the 2008 presidential Read more...
President Obama's envoy began a rare trip to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-level talks with the communist nation in more than a year as a senior U.S. official warned of strong sanctions against Pyongyang unless it rejoins international nuclear talks.
Correspondents for The Times who contributed to an account of the decision-making behind President Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan are answering readers' questions.
Unveiling his official portrait at the State Department on Monday, former secretary of state Colin Powell informed the current secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, that this was the second time he had been so honored.
Last year, the bus in which a young Congolese woman we met named Mary was riding was stopped by a militia. "They wanted to all have me, to rape me," she related haltingly to us. "I told them no, and then they took off my shirt and beat me. I have terrible marks now."
President Barack Obama's envoy began a rare trip to North Korea Tuesday for the highest-level talks with the communist country in more than a year. A senior U.S. official warned of strong sanctions against Pyongyang unless it rejoins international nuclear talks.
WASHINGTON — With a little help from Carol Burnett, a new star from the hit TV show "Glee" and other top entertainers, political Washington is saluting five of the nation's top artists with the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend.
The United States will provide consular support for U.S. exchange student Amanda Knox as she appeals her conviction in Italy in a high profile murder case, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.
