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McCain misstated some facts in foreign-policy debate
John McCain and Barack Obama clashed repeatedly over foreign policy in their first presidential debate Friday night, crossing swords on Iran and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 09/27/08 00:22:00 By - Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
Where Obama and McCain stand on key foreign policy issues
Fundamental differences on foreign policy and national security separate John McCain and Barack Obama. Here’s where they stand on four major challenges the next president will face. | 09/25/08 18:10:07 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
U.S. efforts to curb nuclear weapons falter in Iran, N. Korea
The deepest freeze in U.S.-Russia relations since the Cold War has brought diplomatic efforts to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions to a halt just as Western governments and U.N. inspectors are warning that Tehran could be gaining the ability to build a nuclear weapon. Russia this week pulled out of a six-nation meeting scheduled for Thursday to discuss further sanctions against Iran. | 09/24/08 20:26:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Palin meets world leaders, but keeps the public at arm's length
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took her first tentative steps into the world of international diplomacy Tuesday, beginning a series of meetings with world leaders while simultaneously trying to keep the world — or at least the news media — out. | 09/23/08 14:47:59 By - Warren Strobel
Rice says U.S. will resist Russian moves against its neighbors
Using her toughest rhetoric so far to criticize Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that its invasion of Georgia had put Moscow "on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation" and warned that the West would resist further Russian attempts to impinge on its neighbors' sovereignty. | 09/18/08 18:54:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
N. Korea's Kim misses big celebration, may be seriously ill
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il failed to appear Tuesday at a military parade marking the nuclear-armed communist state's 60th anniversary, and a U.S. intelligence official said Kim appeared to be seriously ill and might have had a stroke. | 09/09/08 18:59:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
At Obama's Indonesian school, there's no doubt he'll be elected
One of the better-selling books on the U.S. presidential race at the modern, multilevel Gramedia bookstore in Jakarta is "Jangan Bunuh Obama!," or "Don't Kill Obama!" As the title indicates, many Indonesians fear that an assassin's bullet or some other plot could stop him from reaching the White House. The fact that there's another candidate in the race named John McCain barely seems to register. | 08/27/08 16:40:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Tensions run high in southern Philippines island group
A renegade force of Muslim rebels began slipping into the villages near Aleoson in the southern Philippines in late June. By the time they were pushed out last week in three days of bloody fighting, the rebels had razed at least 50 houses, pilfered livestock and rubbed emotions raw between Christians and Muslims, according to residents and the Philippines military. While it's been localized, the fighting also poses a potential complication for U.S. strategy here. | 08/17/08 16:31:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Philippine military, Muslim rebels clash; peace plan suffers
Fierce fighting between Muslim rebels and the Filipino military over the last three days has dealt a setback to a peace plan aimed at ending the world's longest-running insurgency and raised fears of violence spreading elsewhere in the southern Philippines. | 08/12/08 15:30:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Sanctions may be in store if Iran rebuffs nuclear offer
The United States and Europe are poised to seek harsher U.N. financial sanctions against Iran if it fails to meet this weekend's deadline to accept an international offer of negotiations in exchange for freezing its nuclear program, diplomats said Friday. | 08/01/08 18:34:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Obama's foreign policy: moderation, not change
Barack Obama has presented himself to American voters as the candidate of change, but on a weeklong foreign trip that ends Saturday he sounded more like a traditionalist when it comes to foreign policy. | 07/25/08 16:18:00 By - Warren P. Strobel and Margaret Talev
For first time, Bush agrees to 'time horizon' for Iraq pullout
The United States and Iraq have agreed to a "general time horizon" for further reductions of U.S. combat troops in Iraq, the White House said Friday, the first time the Bush administration has agreed to set any kind of timeline for U.S. troop withdrawals. The new agreement was announced after talks this week between Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. | 07/18/08 16:29:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
In major shift, U.S. diplomat to join Iran nuclear talks Saturday
Diplomats in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and in Washington doubt that Iran will engage in real bargaining until Bush leaves office. But Bush's decision to send a senior U.S. envoy to Europe for the first face-to-face talks with Iran on its nuclear program represents a step away from military confrontation. | 07/16/08 18:47:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
Obama, McCain shift debate to more troops — for Afghanistan
With the war in Afghanistan worsening by almost every measure, John McCain and Barack Obama both promised on Tuesday to send more U.S. troops. Obama said he'd send at least two more combat brigades; McCain said he'd send three. | 07/15/08 18:27:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Despite Iran missile tests, some see signs of moderation
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was among those trying to tamp down war fever. "I think what we're seeing is a lot of signaling going on," he said at a Pentagon briefing. Israel also issued a measured response to the missile test, and officials said it didn't surprise them. Iran has sent mixed signals in recent weeks. | 07/09/08 19:05:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
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