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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS -- This Central American country holds a presidential election Sunday in a bid to regain international legitimacy after a coup that has rattled the hemisphere and frustrated the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations with Latin America.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday to a wave of enthusiasm but also concern as some world leaders wonder if they can reach an agreement on climate change ahead of an upcoming international summit, and some in the Caribbean question whether they should remain tethered to the British monarch.
President Obama was a hard-hitting fund-raiser for the Democrats this past election and now some of the biggest hitters in sports seem to be swinging away for the President's team.
JERUSALEM - Israel on Wednesday proposed a 10-month halt to new construction in West Bank settlements as a step toward restarting Mideast peace negotiations.Washington welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus offer, but the Palestinians swiftly rejected...
Brazilian diplomats denied Thursday that there is a crisis in relations with the U.S., while acknowledging differences with the government of President Barack Obama on issues such as Iran's nuclear ambitions and relations with post-coup Honduras.
The offer had been anticipated and offered previously to the Palestinians, but had been turned down on the grounds that it did not include Jerusalem.
LARCHMONT — Republican village Mayor Liz Feld says she’s weighing a run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The new charges raise possibility of harsher penalty against Kian Tajbakhsh, a scholar who was in Iran working on a book when he was arrested at his home nearly five months ago amid security forces' postelection sweep against the opposition.
On the anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, some commemorate, others capitalize.
Democrats may be the most skeptical audience when president announces Afghan war strategy.
by Ross Colvin and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON - The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort. After months of deliberation and fending off Republican charges that he was dithering on Afghanistan while violence there surged, Obama will address ...
New Mexico's Bill Richardson's link to an alleged bank-loan schemer.
Ramallah/Jerusalem - Palestinians rejected Thursday Israel's announcement that it would halt settlement construction in the occupied West Bank for 10 months, but Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak predicted that the suspension would lead to a resump...
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce a redrawn battle plan for Afghanistan, including what the military says could be a roughly 50 percent increase in U.S. forces, in a national address Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Israel’s government approved a 10- month halt to the construction of new homes in West Bank settlements, a move immediately welcomed by the U.S. and rejected by Palestinians.
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