World Apr 30 Kerry to promote peace, sanctions in South Sudan Secretary of State John Kerry is bringing his two main tools of diplomacy -- peace talks and threatened sanctions -- to Africa this week to help find a way to end months of killing that is threatening to rip apart…
World Apr 08 U.S. missile strike wouldn’t have altered course of Syrian civil war, Kerry says A threatened, but averted, American missile strike to punish Syria's government for a chemical weapons attack last summer would not have been powerful enough to change the course in the Syrian civil war, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday,…
Nation Apr 02 Iran’s new ambassador to the U.N. held Americans hostage in 1979 Hamid Aboutalebi was a member of a Muslim student group that stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
World Mar 03 Disagreement over Ukraine echoes Cold War for U.S. and Russia Much as when superpower tensions ruled world affairs, missile defense systems and troop levels in Europe have again become urgent questions in Washington and beyond, a renewed reality that may force President Barack Obama's administration to give up its intended…
World Feb 27 Syria tops list of human rights violations in 2013, US report says WASHINGTON -- A chemicals weapons attack in Syria last summer that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013, the Obama administration concluded Thursday. The report by the State Department also…