US President George W. Bush left Monday on a three-nation trip to Asia during which he will attend the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony clouded by concerns over China’s human rights record.
On the way to Seoul, he will transit at Eilson military base in Alaska to address US troops, thanking them for their service to the [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday refused to back down over Iran’s nuclear programme, days ahead of a trip to Tehran by the EU foreign policy chief in search of a compromise in the crisis.
Iran will not trade its “dignity” in its nuclear programme, Ahmadinejad said, in an apparent refusal to consider the main demand of [...]
Both are attending the inauguration of South Koreas president-elect Lee Myung-bak.
A spokesman for Mr Peters today told NZPA no formal meeting had been set up.
However, Mr Peters would have ample opportunities to talk to Dr Rice during the day, including at a banquet tonight when they were seated at the same table and possibly next [...]
SEOUL, South Korea - The oldest U.S. orchestra is using the power of music to pierce North Korea’s isolation, playing a historic concert in the communist nation as the two countries struggle to resolve a protracted standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.The New York Philharmonic will be the most prominent American cultural group to travel [...]
WASHINGTON - More and more, top government diplomats are straying from official Bush foreign policy as the administration wanes, leaving Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice struggling to keep them in check.Twice just this week, Rice and her aides had to rebuke, disavow or otherwise try to explain away public words or actions by three top [...]
