Nations Play Hardball as Hillary Clinton Heads to Climate Summit
New York Times - 1 hour 35 minutes agoCOPENHAGEN -- The United States is putting on a charm offensive as U.N. climate negotiations enter the home stretch despite n...
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COPENHAGEN -- The United States is putting on a charm offensive as U.N. climate negotiations enter the home stretch despite n...
The U.S. relationship with Taiwan is one of the most serious diplomatic issues between China and the U.S.
A controversial plan to get AIDS drugs to poor countries gains support.
The Obama administration said on Tuesday it will move some Guantanamo Bay detainees to an Illinois prison, in a move that drew immediate fire from Republicans worried about bringing high-risk prisoners to U.S. soil.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration's nearly yearlong effort to engage Iran has fallen short and new sanctions are needed to press the Iranian leadership to come clean about its...
Republican congressional leaders on Tuesday denounced the Obama administration's decision to acquire an Illinois state prison to house some of the detainees now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Iranian charges against three detained Americans are "totally unfounded" and appealed anew to authorities in Iran to release them.
COPENHAGEN -- The United States is putting on a charm offensive as U.N. climate negotiations enter the home stretch despite n...
I read a really good book by Steve Schlesinger a few years back called Act of Creation. It’s about the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was born. There was a lot of intrigue and high drama, with plenty at stake. There are stories of heroes, too, like Edward Stettinius, the [...]
LONDON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A January conference in London on Afghanistan will place coordination between Afghan and international forces on the agenda, the British premier said.
President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to proceed with acquisition of an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of...
WASHINGTON --- President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to proceed with acquisition of an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Obama's decision to acquire Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., was disclosed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary ...
US President Barack Obama has decided to transfer dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees to an isolated jail in rural Illinois amid moves to close the notorious facility, officials said Tuesday.
Washington - US President Barack Obama has ordered the government to buy a state prison in Illinois that would house a limited number of detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, the White House said Tuesday. Taking control of...
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Washington will continue to support Pakistani efforts to take on al-Qaida and other groups active in the country, the U.S. secretary of state said in New York.
Top officials in the Obama administration say that as they moveforward with the purchase of the Thomson Correctional Center, thesafety of the surrounding area will be their “paramountconcern.”