Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops Sunday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country’s potentially explosive sectarian lines and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on. The last U.S. convoy rumbled out of Iraq across the border into [...]
President Obama’s trip to Latin America will lay the foundation for a new era, Hillary Clinton said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. on March 18.
(Reuters) – A vast, wind-driven oil slick bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast Sunday, threatening an economic and ecological disaster as President Barack Obama sharpened his criticism of BP Plc and pressed the energy giant to halt the oil gushing from its ruptured well. “Let me be clear: BP is responsible for this leak. [...]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis on Sunday for voting in a parliamentary election despite bomb and rocket attacks that killed at least 38 people. “I have great respect for the millions of Iraqis who refused to be deterred by acts of violence, and who exercised their right to vote today,” Obama said [...]
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — Costa Rica on Thursday called on the UN Security Council to “make good on the promise” for peace, saying that the 15-nation body “fails in its historic mission every day that it turns a blind eye to the rampant arms race.” Addressing the UN Security Council Summit on Nuclear [...]
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