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 (...)
SANAA: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that the US regrets that Yemen's president has not complied with agreements to leave the country and allow elections for a successor.
Her Tuesday comments came as Yemen's foreign minister (...)
WASHINGTON: Iraq's troubled start to life without US forces calls into question the Obama administration's assertion that it has wound down America's long war responsibly: at least 78 killed in blasts across the country in a single day last week, a (...)
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.
In an interview with The (...)
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 (...)
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to explicitly demand the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and hit his regime with tough new sanctions, U.S. officials said Tuesday as the State Department signaled for the first time (...)
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 (...)
WASHINGTON: The United States expressed confidence in Egypt's government on Tuesday and urged calm amid the largest public protests in years.
It was an awkward endorsement of an authoritarian regime that is a crucial Arab ally for (...)
Stevie Wonder pressed global copyright overseers on Monday to help blind and visually impaired people access millions of science, history and other audiobooks, which they cannot read in electronic form.
The blind singer told the UN's 184-nation (...)
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 (...)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Cristiano Ronaldo could not make his way to the exit tunnel fast enough, cutting a straight line through his Spanish opponents as they celebrated victory.
It was that kind of World Cup for the most expensive player in the (...)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Spain's golden generation faces its sternest World Cup test against Portugal on Tuesday, with Cristiano Ronaldo standing in the way of a spot in the quarterfinals.
The Iberian neighbors have limped into the last 16 (...)
CAPE TOWN, South Africa: Portugal revived its World Cup campaign with a dominating 7-0 win over North Korea in Group G on Monday, eliminating the Asian team from the competition
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the sixth goal of the game, his first in a (...)