This evening President Obama will sit down for dinner with Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, marking the start of direct negotiations between the pair with the ambitious aim of agreeing a final settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within 12 months. King Abdullah of Jordan and Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak...
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The State Department included a Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law into a United Nations human rights report to show how U.S. rule of law can be an example to the world, a State Department spokesman said Monday. Spokesman P.J. Crowley said the Arizona immigration law included in an Aug. 20 report to...
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More than two years after Roger Clemens told Congress that he had never taken steroids or human growth hormone, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner reaffirmed his denial Monday as he pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges that he lied to a congressional panel about the alleged doping. The indictment does not...
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state media called France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a “prostitute” on Monday in an unusual attack on the wife of a world leader that shows deep anger over her support for an Iranian woman who faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction. The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
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The United States on Tuesday, August 31 at a formal ceremony in Baghdad will end its combat mission in Iraq and complete the U.S. military’s transition to an advisory and training role in support of Iraqi forces. That effort is to continue until the end of next year, but there are significant questions about...
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She has been helping to drive conservative candidates to victory in GOP primaries across the country, but six in 10 Americans say Sarah Palin would not be an effective president, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released today. Palin, the former Republican governor of Alaska, did better among GOP voters. Forty-seven percent of...
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Seven-time Cy Young award winner Roger Clemens arrived Monday in the nation’s capital to face charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone. Clemens showed up early at a federal courthouse just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The 48-year-old ex-major leaguer was being arraigned later Monday...
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“A Message From Pandora” Tells the Story of the Battle to Stop the Belo Monte Dam in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest Los Angeles, CA – Timed with the re-release of Avatar in theatres, highly acclaimed director James Cameron has teamed up with Amazon Watch to produce a short feature “_A Message from Pandora_.” The documentary...
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NEW YORK – New York City Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has long worked to bridge divisions, whether they are marital fissures or political chasms. Now the 61-year-old clergyman is in the midst of a divisive national debate over plans for an Islamic center that features a mosque about two blocks north of the site...
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SEOUL—North Korean dictator Kim Jong II met Chinese President Hu Jintao during his five-day visit to northeast China, the Chinese government confirmed Monday night as Mr. Kim left the country, in a surprise get-together that underscored their solidarity as they cope with pressure from the U.S. and other countries to act more responsibly. The...
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