Talks between Russia and the United States on a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty have hit a snag over technical issues. Does that mean there will be no further weapons cuts by the world's leading nuclear powers in the foreseeable future?
President Barack Obama has begun a nine-day tour of Asia at a time when the U.S. economy is struggling to emerge from a deep recession. He'll be visiting Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea. The focus of his trip will be trade, but economists say progress in that area might boost global security.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked this month's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech to the U.S. Congress. She said Germany will never accept the idea of Iran having nuclear weapons and called for trans-Atlantic unity in the fight against global climate change.
Iran has given an initial response to the UN's nuclear watchdog on a proposal that Tehran would export most of its uranium for enrichment, but Western officials have said privately that they fear the deal has been rejected.
Hillary Clinton is on her first visit to Pakistan as the U.S. secretary of state. Her arrival coincided with a massive bombing in Peshawar that killed at least 90 people. Clinton assured Pakistanis they are not alone in the fight against terrorism, but she still faces an uphill battle in securing full support for the U.S. antiterror strategy in South Asia.
In two weeks, Afghans will vote for president again in a runoff election made necessary because of widespread fraud in the original vote of August 20. The United States' special ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan says the new vote isn't a sign of trouble in the country, but shows that it's strong enough to resolve them.
Madeleine Albright, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton, told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Russia continues to view NATO as a hostile alliance, two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In April, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a speech in Prague that his administration had begun work on an effort to eliminate nuclear weapons from the world's arsenals. In Washington on October 21, Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, followed up by urging stronger UN authority to crack down on proliferators.
For years, the United States has relied on economic sanctions in an effort to persuade the government of Sudan to end what's being called a "genocidal" civil war -- so far with no results. Now the Obama administration is shifting Washington's strategy.
For anybody else, winning the Nobel Peace Prize would be a huge reward. For U.S. President Barack Obama, however, it could be a mixed blessing.
Washington has decided to end funding to a key Iranian human rights group. The news comes as the United States and Iran are for the first time negotiating face-to-face on Iran's nuclear program. Is this cutoff of money for the group a cynical effort to achieve success in the talks, or a necessary concession to persuade Tehran that Washington is negotiating in good faith?
The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, is in Washington, but he won't be meeting with President Barack Obama just yet. That won't happen until after Obama meets with China's leader in Beijing next month. The White House says careful engagement with China is the only way to bring it into the mainstream both economically and in terms of human rights. But not everyone agrees.
When representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, sit down with Iranian representatives in Turkey in October, they will do so with renewed violence and harsh rhetoric coming from Tehran fresh in their minds.
Every four years, the U.S. intelligence community compiles a national intelligence strategy that focuses on foreign challenges to America's interests. This year, four countries are at the top of the list: Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China.
Americans recently have been saving more and spending less even as the economy shows new signs of life. Should they continue to do so? Or would that hurt the global economic recovery?
Richard Holbrooke, the special U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, says an important part of Washington's strategy to defeated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda is recognizing that Afghanistan doesn't exist in a vacuum.
The United States will soon have a new deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. The man who is vacating the post after four years, Matthew Bryza, has announced he will be replaced by Tina Kaidanow, a longtime diplomat with more than 10 years of experience in the Balkans, who most recently served as the first U.S. ambassador to Kosovo.
Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea as a private citizen, not as an official representative of the U.S. government, though his actions clearly were in the nation's interest. But was it enough that he secured the release of the two American journalists? Or did he, as some say, play into the hands of North Korea's leader?
On July 13, the EU and Turkey signed what's been hailed as a historic deal to start work on the Nabucco pipeline, which is designed to give Europe an alternative to the unreliable supply of natural gas from Russia's Gazprom by connecting directly to Azerbaijan and other Caspian sources. But even if Azerbaijan does have the gas to fill the initial need, some question if it has the political will.
A new poll conducted in 20 countries representing more than 60 percent of the world's population says feelings toward the United States haven't changed much since Barak Obama became the U.S. president. Yet the respondents also told worldpublicopinion.org that they believe Obama's presidency will be good for the world, as well as for the United States.
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