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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
Passport record system open to abuse, IG finds
A State Department passport record system that holds personal data on more than 120 million Americans is wide open to abuse and unable to prevent or detect unauthorized access, investigators said Thursday. | 07/03/08 18:20:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Iran 'seriously considering' new international nuclear offer
Iran's senior diplomat said Tuesday that Tehran was seriously considering a new offer from six world powers to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program, and he praised the package as "constructive." The unusually positive remarks by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to a small group of reporters raised hope that a negotiated solution can be found to defuse the crisis. | 07/01/08 17:43:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
How did Bush policy lead to a deal with North Korea?
President Bush began his administration refusing to engage in one-on-one diplomacy with North Korea, a regime he reviled. He ends his presidency tit-for-tat trading North Korea nuclear concessions for U.S. fuel and trade concessions and earning brickbats from one-time political allies. What sparked the change? | 06/26/08 19:07:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Breakthrough expected Thursday in North Korea talks
North Korea on Thursday will provide a long-awaited declaration detailing its nuclear weapons programs, a potential breakthrough in a 17-year-long effort to rid the Stalinist state of nuclear arms that eventually could lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the United States. | 06/25/08 19:01:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
"There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," retired Army Major Gen. Antonio Taguba wrote in a new report on medical evidence that U.S. troops abused prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account." | 06/18/08 18:43:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross
The minutes of an October 2002 meeting, released Tuesday, show that Pentagon and CIA officials openly discussed keeping detainees and their treatment hidden from the Red Cross. One officer acknowledged troops at a base in Afghanistan were using techniques that hadn't been approved. | 06/17/08 20:41:56 By - Warren P. Strobel
CIA advised military on questioning at Guantanamo
In October 2002, a senior CIA official explained how to use harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorist detainees at Guantanamo, documents released at a congressional hearing today show. The CIA was authorized to use the techniques, the military was not, and some in the military foresaw problems. "This looks like the kinds of stuff Congressional hearings are made of," one wrote in an e-mail. | 06/17/08 12:27:16 By - Warren P. Strobel
Senate probe links Pentagon official to abusive tactics
Senate Armed Services Committee investigators say the Defense Department's general counsel contacted the Pentagon agency that develops survival techniques for captured American servicemen and asked for help in developing the aggressive questioning techniques that gave rise to allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. William Haynes, who was the general counsel, will testify at a Tuesday hearing. | 06/16/08 22:21:00 By - Warren P. Strobel
Foreign nations overwhelmingly prefer Obama, survey finds
Foreigners overwhelmingly expect the next American president to change U.S. foreign policy "for the better," the Pew Research Center poll found. The survey, of 24,700 people in 24 countries, also found that much of the world is closely following the contest to replace President Bush. | 06/14/08 09:34:57 By - Warren P. Strobel
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