Diplomacy

U.N. passes treaty regulating arms sales

2013-04-02 10:10:00

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the world body's first treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade Tuesday, a goal sought for over a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands...

A Russian 'frenemy'

2013-03-05 00:00:00

The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of...

Philippines challenges Chinese claims to waters through tribunal

2013-01-22 10:36:00

The Philippines is taking a feud with China to an international tribunal, it announced Tuesday, the latest turn in the simmering dispute over a string of rocky outcroppings in the South China Sea. In a claim shared Tuesday with the Chinese ambassador,...

U.N. vote on Palestine status inflicts new divides in Europe, NATO

2012-11-30 02:00:00

Thursday’s overwhelming U.N. vote to elevate the status of Palestine at the world body inflicts yet another fracture in the facade of Western solidarity, exposing a divide among European Union and NATO member states over U.S. policy in the Middle...

World of woe, little hope of relief, await U.N. General Assembly

2012-09-24 05:02:49

Leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather in Mexico

2012-06-18 04:37:52

Gestures of censure on Syria show world's outrage, paralysis

2012-05-30 04:38:17

Divisions persist in U.N. over how to halt Syria violence

2012-05-30 16:40:33

Unpredictable to the end, Moammar Kadafi ruled Libya for decades

2011-10-20 19:39:00

In the modern pantheon of the world's dictators, Moammar Kadafi stood apart. Far apart. Erratic and mercurial, he fancied himself a political philosopher, practiced an unorthodox and deadly diplomacy, and cut a sometimes cartoonish figure in flowing...

McManus: A measured U.S. response in Syria

2011-07-10 00:00:00

When pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in Syria this spring, President Obama offered Syrian President Bashar Assad one more chance to embrace reform. "He can lead that transition [to democracy] or get out of the way," Obama said in May. Now, almost...

Presidential candidates off to slower fundraising start

2011-07-01 00:00:00

The deadline for filing presidential fundraising reports closed Thursday, with officials from nearly every campaign predicting a relatively low dollar total compared with the historic highs at this time in the 2008 cycle. Campaign aides engaged in the...

Margaret Tante Burk dies at 93; host of Round Table West

2011-10-13 00:00:00

Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93. For 30 years, until 2007, Burk ran...

Mexican Ambassador Carlos Pascual. (Courtesy U.S. Embassy)

2011-03-19 18:36:11

U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos visits with evacuees at the Watanoha Elementary School, home to some 1,000 people due to the recent earthquake and tsunami. Roos addressed the evacuees staying in the gymnasium, many of whom were moved by his speech.

2011-02-19 00:00:00

traveled to Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta during the first week of October in 2007, he wasn't expecting to see this striking view on the main-entrance highway.

2011-02-18 12:31:12