By Teri Schultz Brussels 26 March 2007 Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, visiting Brussels for talks with European Union and NATO allies, warned Tehran its failure to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency would lead to Iran's further...
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 10 February 2007 General David Petraeus has taken over as commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, during a time that he called a decisive moment for the country's future. In an address at his official handover ceremony Saturday, Ge...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 An international human-rights watchdog is warning that Rwanda could erupt into a new cycle of violence if the authorities do not protect participants of the country's grassroots trials that hear and prosecute...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 18 January 2007 watch Freedom House report A newly released report from the independent Freedom House says a global stagnation has developed over the past decade, and warns that a series of worrisome trends have emerge...
By David Gollust State Department 05 January 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday a new North Korean nuclear test would only deepen that country's isolation. Rice, who met with her South Korean counterpart in Washington, said th...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 04 January 2007 The new director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, warns the threat of an influenza pandemic has not receded. She urges countries around the world to prepare for a pandemic that has the p...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 November 2006 U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres is warning that humanitarian aid for hundreds-of-thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur and displaced Chadians could be jeopardized by a fresh outbreak...
By Scott Stearns Washington 19 October 2006 U.S. President George Bush says there will be grave consequences for North Korea if it tries to export nuclear weapons. The United States and Japan say they will work together to enforce U.N. sanctions aga...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 04 October 2006 The top U.S. diplomat in the six nation talks on the North Korean nuclear program says the United States and its allies will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. ----- Christopher Hill (file photo) U.S....
By David Gollust State Department 27 September 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday Sudanese authorities will be held responsible and bear the consequences if they continue undermining efforts to reinforce peacekeeping operations...