RIYADH: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program and said talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in mid-April.
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ISTANBUL: Dozens of countries on Sunday sought to set conditions for a new Syria, pushing for tighter sanctions and diplomatic pressure to further isolate President Bashar Assad, while urging the opposition to offer a democratic alternative to his (...)
WASHINGTON: The US is losing old friends and can't win new ones in the new Egypt.
Trying to secure a way home for seven American democracy experts trapped in the country, the Obama administration is facing a wrathful campaign of retribution from (...)
WASHINGTON: US nonprofit organizations under investigation in Egypt say an old ally of deposed President Hosni Mubarak is behind an Egyptian campaign against pro-democracy groups.
They want Washington to end relations with International (...)
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has gathered representatives from more than two dozen governments this week in an effort to address religious intolerance around the world. The goal is to bolster relations with Muslim countries angry about (...)
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration offered tempered praise this week as millions of Egyptians cast ballots in an election likely to be the country's freest and fairest ever — a vote the US insisted go forward despite objections by pro-democracy (...)
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration offered tempered praise this week as millions of Egyptians cast ballots in an election likely to be the country's freest and fairest ever — a vote the U.S. insisted go forward despite objections by pro-democracy (...)
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Tuesday sharply stepped up its criticism of Egypt's ruling council for its role in a wave of violence that has left 29 dead in the last four days, and demanded that military leaders hand over power to (...)
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday that the Obama administration would work with ascendant Islamist parties of the Muslim world, answering one of the central U.S. policy questions resulting from the Arab (...)
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday that the Obama administration would work with ascendant Islamist parties of the Muslim world, answering one of the central US policy questions resulting from the Arab (...)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. official who is coordinating assistance to Middle East nations in transition says he believes Egypt's military rulers want to hand over political power.
But Ambassador Bill Taylor says they could speed up the process (...)
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration's top diplomat suggested Tuesday that the Arab Spring has entered difficult and uncharted territory between dictatorship and democracy, and that some changes would have to come slowly.
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday pressed Egypt's interim military leadership to strengthen Egypt's partnership with Israel and stick to scheduled elections later this year, even though a new set of leaders much less friendly to the US and (...)
VILNIUS: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that the rule of law, political parties and democratic institutions must emerge in the Arab world if it is to emulate Eastern Europe's remarkable transition two decades ago from (...)
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for solidarity with pro-democracy activists in Belarus as the wave of protest that has spread through the Arab world extends to Europe's last autocratic (...)
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama defended his endorsement of Israel's 1967 boundaries as the basis for a future Palestine, telling America's pro-Israel lobby that his views reflected long-standing U.S. policy that needed to be stated (...)
Roman Polanski may once again be seen on the red carpet at Cannes — but he won't be attending the Venice Film Festival or the Oscars anytime soon.
Freed from Swiss house arrest after the government refused to deport him to the United States, the (...)
GENEVA: The United Nations called Switzerland s ban on new minarets clearly discriminatory and deeply divisive, and the Swiss foreign minister acknowledged Tuesday the government was very concerned about how the vote would affect the country s (...)