• Soldiers find special bond with dogs trained for war

    Soldiers find special bond with dogs trained for war

    Dec 24, 2014 12:50 AM EDT

    ... there on patrol and in close combat. It's the latest for canines over centuries of battle, from ancient Rome through World War I. The U.S. military first officially used dogs in World War II as scouts and enemy trackers and again in Vietnam. And when U.S. troops ...

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    Foreign Policy Dominated U.S. Political Agenda in 2004

    Dec 28, 2004 05:00 AM EDT

    ... like the Suez crisis where we were on the opposite side of France and even Britain. There were many clashes. The Europeans didn't support us in Korea or Vietnam much. And now we see when it's a European matter, like Ukraine, the U.S. and the Europeans automatically ...

  • Why U.S. foreign policy may play a larger role at the 2024 national conventions

    Why U.S. foreign policy may play a larger role at the 2024 national conventions

    Jun 16, 2024 06:57 PM EDT

    ... Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and those of his liberal rival Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) disagreed intensely over how and when to end the U.S. bombing campaign of North Vietnam. After some two hours of raucous debate, Humphrey backers won a vote rejecting the minority plank on the ...

  • WATCH: Blinken urges global effort to expand LGBTQ rights

    WATCH: Blinken urges global effort to expand LGBTQ rights

    Sep 19, 2022 10:55 PM EDT

    ... to movements by the governments of St. Kitts and Nevis as well as Antigua and Barbuda which all struck down provisions that criminalized same-sex relations. Blinken also highlighted Vietnam's recent step declaring that homosexuality can no longer be considered an illness and outlawing conversion therapy. Still, he underscored ...

  • News Wrap: Trump ‘not backing down’ on tariffs plan

    News Wrap: Trump ‘not backing down’ on tariffs plan

    Mar 05, 2018 11:50 PM EDT

    ... early, after off-loading only part of its supplies. And war monitors reported at least 50 people were killed in the ongoing assault today. A U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in Vietnam today, the first such visit since the end of Vietnam War in 1975. The U.S.S. Carl ...

  • The weaver who helped resurrect an endangered Lao artform

    The weaver who helped resurrect an endangered Lao artform

    Sep 07, 2016 11:20 PM EDT

    ... and designing. MIKE CERRE: When she and her husband came here nearly 30 years ago as U.N. development advisers, full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Laos had yet to be restored. Americans were still viewed somewhat suspiciously by the communist Lao government, the U.S. having been ...

  • Trump makes unannounced trip to meet remains of Navy SEAL killed in Yemen

    Trump makes unannounced trip to meet remains of Navy SEAL killed in Yemen

    Feb 01, 2017 09:44 PM EDT

    ... handing the war off to a third American president. Trump, who never served in the armed forces and received student and medical deferments during the Vietnam War, had an uneven relationship with the military community during the presidential campaign. About 60 percent of voters who served in the military supported ...

  • Vietnam battles sex trafficking along China’s border

    Vietnam battles sex trafficking along China’s border

    Jul 01, 2014 11:45 PM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: A changing Asia has also complicated the relationship between China and Vietnam. They have recently battled over drilling for oil in waters claimed by both countries, and they share a long land border that has been the scene of human trafficking. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro ...

  • U.S. wants world to isolate North Korea, so what’s that mean?

    U.S. wants world to isolate North Korea, so what’s that mean?

    Dec 10, 2017 02:45 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump’s U.N. ambassador recently urged the world to sever diplomatic ties with North Korea, she was sketchy on the details: Should all embassies close? How about those providing the U.S. intelligence from the largely inscrutable country? And what of Sweden, which helps with ...

  • North Korea calls Trump 'erratic old man' over tweets about Kim Jong Un

    North Korea calls Trump 'erratic old man' over tweets about Kim Jong Un

    Dec 09, 2019 02:29 PM EDT

    A senior North Korean official said in a statement that his country wouldn’t cave in to U.S. pressure because it has nothing to lose and accused the Trump administration of attempting to buy time ahead of an end-of-year deadline set by Kim Jong Un for Washington to salvage nuclear talks.