Hillary Clinton

In Honduras, Barack Obama's foreign policy team finally rediscovered the first law of holes: when you find yourself stuck in one, the first thing to do is stop digging. The U.S. State Department has been busily digging a diplomatic crater since June 28. That's when the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya from office due to his unconstitutional bid to eliminate term limits.  

As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror." From Palestine to Pakistan, Obama, who also faces a major fight in getting his top legislative priority – health care reform – through Congress, must make a series of critical decisions within a relatively short time. Some of those decisions could well determine Obama's foreign policy ...  

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.S. would consider a normalization of ties and the adoption of a peace treaty with North Korea if Pyongyang vows to abandon its nuclear ambitions. In an interview with Bloomberg Radio on Friday, Clinton said the U.S. has a very clear message that there are significant benefits for North Korea if it recommits to the verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during the upcoming trip to Pyongyang by special envoy for North ...  

Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" started at 200,000.  

I have the privilege of leading a not-for-profit organization based in Arizona that, for more than 25 years, has had the mission of supporting African nations in their efforts to eradicate poverty, disease and inequity through self-help partnership programs. But, to many people, Africa is little-known and misunderstood. Most consider the entire continent a basket case and identify it with corruption, disease, poverty and conflict - which leads them to ask: "Why bother with Africa?"  

The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will leave for a landmark visit to United States today. On Sunday, his entourage will reach Washington from Geneva. He will be received at the Andrews Air Force base.  

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepares for talks with US President Obama, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad is ready for talks with India if New Delhi is ready. He said, "I am giving India a message. If they are ready for meaningful dialogue, then Pakistan is ready. If they want another sitting for the sake of sitting, then I don't want to waste time." In an interview to the Washington Post ahead of his state visit to the US, Singh said, "We are committed ...

We are committed to resolve all the outstanding issues with Pakistan through bilateral negotiations. Our only condition is that Pakistan should not allow its territory to be used for acts of terrorism against India.   -Manmohan Singh

 

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today that the United States could start holding Afghanistan's government accountable for corruption by withholding money for projects "where we control the flow of dollars." At a news conference here at a 200-year-old military base with Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay, Gates echoed a warning that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered privately to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan in Kabul earlier this week: That future civilian aid ...

where we control the flow of dollars.   -Robert Gates

 

From the marbled corridors of Congress to the tony salons of Georgetown, liberal lawmakers are abuzz with ideas on how to rein in U.S. corporations. Yet over in the courts, two conservative lawyers are mounting a serious challenge to a law, enacted earlier in the decade, that imposed tough restrictions on American businesses. A ruling in their favor could deal a serious blow to the pro-regulatory movement in Washington.