Tag: America

"The Civilizations Choir of Antakya", a mosaic of exceptional performers from Turkey performed at the historic Howard Theater in Washington. Nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, "The Civilizations Choir ...

A US diplomat hotly tipped to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has admitted releasing incorrect information after September's attack on the American consulate in Libya. UN Ambassador Susan Rice ...

The assassination of Irish-catholic President Kennedy, fifty years ago, is the biggest and cruellest provocation of all time, for it came in a time when everyone had a television and ...

Now that the dust has settled in Gaza, permit me a brief comment on the way the conflict was covered here in the United States.   I normally leave media commentary ...

Senator John McCain, a vocal opponent of Susan Rice's possible nomination as Secretary of State, said on Sunday that the U.N. ambassador could change his mind after she explained her ...

In Israel the diplomatic day ended for Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Tuesday had started with hopes the seventh day of violence ...

Burma is on a "remarkable journey" of reform that has much further to go, Barack Obama said as he made the first visit to the South East Asian nation by ...

Former CIA chief Gen David Petraeus has told lawmakers that the deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya was a terror attack. During two appearances on Capitol Hill on ...

Just a week on from its delight at Obama’s victory, Turkey tells the US to halt Israel’s raids on Gaza amid violence that kills 18 both Israelis and Palestinians. Turkish ...

The United States declined to follow France in fully recognizing a fledgling Syrian opposition coalition on Wednesday, saying the body must prove its worth, after its predecessor was dogged by ...