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Ukraine's president on Tuesday refused to say what will happen to the country's former prime minister, a key political opponent who has been jailed during her trial on charges of abusing her powers while in office.
Dick Cheney's autobiography presents a robust defense of his push for the U.S. invasion of Iraq without critically examining two issues central to America's near-failure in the war: the Bush administration's decision to disband the country's army and banish all members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
President Barack Obama launches a political counteroffensive this week, weighed down by a stunted economy, wilting support among some of his most ardent backers, and a daily bashing from the slew of Republicans campaigning for his job.
South African jurist Richard Goldstone said Tuesday that he did not plan to seek nullification of his highly critical U.N. report on Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip and asserted that claims to the contrary by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai were false.
Political ideologies and government spending realities are speeding trains headed toward a nasty crash in Washington this week barring a compromise between Republicans in the House and Senate Democrats aligned with President Barack Obama in the battle to contain America's soaring debt.
A top diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin warned the German government not to issue international arrest warrants against CIA agents involved in the 2003 abduction of a German citizen mistakenly believed to be a terrorist, according to diplomatic dispatches released Wednesday by WikiLeaks.
Key Senate Republicans reflected divisions in the party Sunday over ratifying a new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons before year-end.
Trying to coax Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a peace deal always has been a political high-wire act for U.S. presidents, but President Barack Obama is performing without a net.
The Republicans' huge victory in congressional elections could crimp President Barack Obama's hopes of resetting relations with Russia and open the way for a new get-tough approach with China.
A big Republican win in Nov. 2 congressional elections could stymie President Barack Obama's attempts to reset relations with Russia while opening the way for a new bipartisan toughness toward China.
Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian president have set off on a yearlong peace journey, taking to a well-trod road that has led only to failure for nearly two decades. Even so, the negotiating chess board is arranged differently this time around.
President Barack Obama kept a promise but took a risk in boldly declaring an end to 7 1/2 years of war in Iraq and asserting that America had turned the page on the costly, divisive conflict.
President Barack Obama's decision to stick to a promise to withdraw all but 50,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of August, despite a surge in violence, gives more weight to domestic dismay at American losses than to countering political unrest in the U.S.-liberated country.
Right when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a storm of distraction.
I jammed the accelerator of the black Mercedes to the floor, weaving from lane to lane northward along the embankment of Moscow's Yauza River. It felt like the harrowing, big city auto chase in that "French Connection" movie.
President Barack Obama played the good cop in his latest face-to-face with Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking to bolster the Israeli prime minister's standing at home with honeyed praise for his readiness to make peace with the Palestinians.
President Barack Obama had little choice. Already weakened by the seemingly insolvable Gulf oil spill and his party's dicey prospects in the coming congressional election, Obama could not afford to give his Afghanistan commander a pass for his inflammatory public words.
The war in Afghanistan appears in disarray.
Most times, it's the president's coattails that get ridden. But as oil keeps gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, it's looking more and more as if the White House is riding those of a straight-talking Coast Guard admiral entrusted not only to coordinate the federal response to the nation's worst environmental tragedy but to keep the administration out of the political muck.
Amid the uproar over Israel's deadly raid on the flotilla bringing aid to the Gaza Strip, it's important to note what is not happening.
The timing of Iran's deal to ship some enriched uranium to Turkey casts a cloud of suspicion over Tehran's motives, but the agreement could sow sufficient doubt to undermine or delay the White House-driven sanctions effort in the United Nations.
In public, Afghan President Hamid Karzai smiled, thanked President Barack Obama for all the help and played the "aw, shucks" character. They appeared to have patched things up after an unusually deep and public rift between allies.
In the wake of the Times Square bombing plot, the Obama administration said on Sunday it wants to work with Congress on possible limitations of the constitutional rights afforded terrorism suspects — even for American citizens.
The Israelis and Palestinians have taken a small, halting step toward peace talks, a modest payoff for President Barack Obama's dogged, behind-the-scenes diplomacy.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has so angered his U.S. protectors that the White House put him on notice Tuesday a planned Washington visit might be canceled if he didn't stop blaming the U.S. for his troubles.
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