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    U.S.-Russia Trade Pact Paves Way for Russia to Join WTO

    Nov 20, 2006 08:50 PM EDT

    ... high standards of President Bush's market-opening trade agenda and moves Russia closer to full integration into the global, rules-based trading system," said U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab after signing the agreement with her Russian counterpart German Gref in Hanoi, Vietnam at the meeting of the Asia ...

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    Senate Passes U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

    Nov 17, 2006 09:20 PM EDT

    ... the Clinton administration.But, the deal is intended to reward India's new role as a responsible nuclear power.This is a "major shift in U.S.-Indian relations," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Thursday, according to the AP. "If we are right, this shift will increase the prospect ...

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    President's Baghdad Trip Sparks U.S. Iraq Policy Debate

    Jun 14, 2006 10:35 PM EDT

    ... Zbigniew Brzezinski, he's now a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Walter Russell Mead, the Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of "Special Providence: American Policy and How it Changed the World."I talked to ...

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    U.S. Forces Intensify Attacks on Insurgent Strongholds

    Sep 08, 2004 04:00 AM EDT

    MARGARET WARNER: For an assessment of what hitting the 1,000 U.S. fatalities figure says about conditions in Iraq now, we turn to: Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "The Generals' War," a book ...

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    Some Delegates' Views on U.S. Policy in Iraq

    Jul 28, 2004 04:00 AM EDT

    ... have to be able to make decisions just as Kerry did in combat in Vietnam and with his 20 years of experience in the Foreign Relations Committee and personal knowledge of world leaders, he will be able to persuade countries to join with us. And he also will be able ...

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    Engaging the Allies: U.S.-European Relations

    May 23, 2002 04:00 AM EDT

    I think it does come, as Secretary Schlesinger said, from in part from the fact that Europe is engaged in this really historic political invention of the European Union and of pooling sovereignty, and it sees it as valuable, a whole different set of tools. And the U.S. is ...

  • Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed

    Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed

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    ... out. South Sudan, which is tipping toward civil war, has declined to say where the men are being held or what their fate is. The U.S. also deported five men who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini, where the ...

  • WATCH: U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies on Trump trade policy

    WATCH: U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies on Trump trade policy

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    Tillis' frustration was aimed at the across-the-board tariff strategy that could potentially hamstring U.S. manufacturers who are currently dependent on materials like aluminum and steel from China. His home state of North Carolina, where he is up for reelection next year, has attracted thousands of foreign firms ...

  • WATCH: Donald and Melania Trump visit Jimmy Carter's casket at U.S. Capitol

    WATCH: Donald and Melania Trump visit Jimmy Carter's casket at U.S. Capitol

    Jan 08, 2025 11:15 PM EDT

    A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, submarine officer and peanut farmer before entering politics, Carter won the White House as an outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate. He endured a rocky four years of economic unrest and international crises that ended with his defeat to Republican ...

  • Here's why U.S. flags will be flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day

    Here's why U.S. flags will be flown at half-staff on Inauguration Day

    Jan 06, 2025 04:29 PM EDT

    ... press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden would not consider reversing or reevaluating the half-staff plans. Can Trump decide to raise the flags? Yes. U.S. flag code dictates that flags remain lowered for the 30-day period from the death of a former president. But that code isn ...