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Russia has pledged to clean up its police forces -- again -- after whistleblowers posted videos online complaining of corruption, low pay and poor working conditions
When Sarah Palin made her first trip to western Pennsylvania as GOP presidential candidate John McCain's fresh-faced running mate, the Arizona senator warned locals that she "doesn't let anyone tell her to sit down."
Russia has pledged to clean up its police forces -- again -- after whistleblowers posted videos online complaining of corruption, low pay and poor working conditions
The role thrusts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton into the thick of a critical international problem.
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...
NEW YORK (AP) - “Going Rogue” is going big.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she is encouraged by Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s promises to fight corruption and build up Afghan security forces to replace U.S. troops by the end of his new five-year term.
Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Other than outright war, seldom have things looked grimmer for Israel and the Palestinians. There are always two sides to a story, of course, and in the Middle East there are often more than two.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lauded the newly sworn-in Afghan president for outlining a plan to crack down on corruption in his inaugural speech Thursday, but warned that Washington and the international community would hold him to his promises.
(AP:SOFIA, Bulgaria) Bulgaria's foreign minister says she will seek greater involvement from U.S. companies in energy projects when she meets Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on Monday.
KABUL -- President Hamid Karzai set two ambitious goals in his inauguration speech Thursday: to have Afghan soldiers and police take full responsibility for security within the next five years and to root out the pervasive corruption that hobbled his first administration.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lauded the newly sworn-in Afghan president for outlining a plan to crack down on corruption in his inaugural speech Thursday, but warned that Washington and the international community would hold him to his promises.
NEW YORK - "Going Rogue" is going big. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies.
"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" (480 pages, $27.99), by Gail Collins In 1960, a secretary named Lois Rabinowitz was reprimanded by a New York City judge for appearing in court wearing slacks. Less than 50 years later in the same city, bus driver Tahita Jenkins was fired from her job because she refused to wear slacks.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- At least 15 people died in a suicide bombing in western Afghanistan, a day after President Hamid Karzai marked the start of his second term with a promise to bolster the fight against the country’s Taliban-led insurgency.
(AP:SOFIA, Bulgaria) Bulgaria's foreign minister says she will seek greater involvement of U.S. companies in energy projects when she meets Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on Monday.
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