By Nancy-Amelia Collins Dili 30 May 2006 East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao speaks to reporters at presidential palace in Dili The East Timorese president has taken over direct control of the armed forces and declared a state of crisis in an atte...
By Gary Thomas Washington 12 June 2006 The United States and its European allies have offered Iran a package of incentives to get Tehran to abandon any ambition to build nuclear weapons. Iran has not rejected the package outright, but is standing fi...
By Scott Stearns White House 10 June 2006 President Bush says the formation of a new government in Iraq and the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi made this past week a good one for the cause of freedom. Opposition Democrats say the pres...
By Michael Bowman White House 20 May 2006 President Bush at the US Border Patrol station in Yuma, Arizona President Bush says it is time for Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform. Mr. Bus...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 May 2006 Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade says information technology can be Africa's ticket out of poverty. The president spoke at an award ceremony in which he and the m...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bali 13 May 2006 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad A one-day summit of eight majority Muslim nations has ended with a statement of support for the development of nuclear ene...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 27 April 2006 Eritrea's presidential spokesman says his country is pursuing a long-term food security strategy that largely shuns foreign food aid as a way of making the coun...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 26 April 2006 President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic says he is worried by European state intervention in the economy. Mr. Klaus, an economist by training, told a...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 26 April 2006 The president of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan has begun a visit to the United States with a call for a diplomatic solution to the crisis over Iran'...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 24 April 2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his visiting Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev meeting in the Moscow Kremlin on Monday, April 24, 2006 Kyrgyzstan P...