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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.
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio gained his most influential upstate endorsement so far and the first from Western New York when Mike Norris, the new chairman of the Niagara County Republican Party, declared his support Monday for the former Long Island congressman.
President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee chairman’s criticism of the White House, according to Read more...
LAHORE, Pakistan | Bombings in two Pakistani cities killed 46 people Monday, as militants struck back in the wake of an army offensive against a Taliban stronghold in the northwest near the Afghanistan border. Two synchronized bombs ripped through a market that is popular with women in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore about 9 p.m., igniting a massive fire that killed 36 people, authorities ...
Officials signed another agreement to improve border security and crack down on drug traffickers.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Washington to discuss Iran's nuclear program, the war in Afghanistan and other issues. But the President also needs to convince him that Turkey must stay close to the U.S. and Europe even as it looks east
Top administration officials said Sunday that any troop pullout beginning in July 2011 would be slow.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended his decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan and new details on Osama Bin Laden's location. Bill Plante reports.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.
SEOUL, South Korea - President Barack 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...
One of Sarah Palin's critics has spoken - and it got him a trip to the hoosegow Monday.
Foreign Policy magazine ranked a BYU professor one of the top 100 global thinkers for 2009, a list that includes Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. BYU political science professor Valerie Hudson, was ranked number 97 in Foreign Policy magazine’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her work in women’s studies, in particular for her book “Bare Branches.” In her book, “Bare Branches,” Hudson said she ...
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced hope Monday that US envoys will persuade North Korea to resume nuclear disarmament talks and patch up relations with its five negotiating partners.
All things considered, NATO has done well – so far – in responding to President Obama's request for more troops.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the disputed June 12 presidential election. Ahmadinejad's main rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, also claimed victory. Massive protests followed, but they were eventually crushed by the government. Here, profiles of some of the key players in the post-election unrest.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she is willing to look into criticism that Amanda Knox, a 22-year-old American found guilty by an Italian court of murdering her flatmate, didn’t receive a fair trial.
