Bill Richardson

Bill Richardson, a veteran Democratic politician and former US ambassador to the United Nations who later spent decades negotiating the release of Americans detained around the world, has died at age 75, his associates said Saturday.

Russia released on Thursday a US Navy veteran who had been held in the country's Kaliningrad territory near Poland for nine months, negotiator and former US politician Bill Richardson announced.

Veteran U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it was conducting a "whitewash" and accusing the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking "moral leadership".

Defectors and activists welcomed Tuesday a UN-mandated inquiry's searing indictment of gross human rights abuses in North Korea, but analysts questioned the international community's ability to act on its recommendations.

Google Inc executive chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 per cent of his stake in the Internet search company, a move that could potentially net the former chief executive a $2.51 billion windfall.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson urged North Korea not to carry out any nuclear tests or use ballistic missiles, he said on Thursday as he returned from a private visit to the isolated country.

The Executive Chairman of US-based Google, one of the world's largest Internet companies, was traveling on Monday to North Korea, a nation with notoriously restrictive online policies.

Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea on a private, humanitarian mission led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that could take place as early as this month, sources told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The sources, two peo...

Bill Richardson, a veteran Democratic politician and former US ambassador to the United Nations who later spent decades negotiating the release of Americans detained around the world, has died at age 75, his associates said Saturday.

Russia released on Thursday a US Navy veteran who had been held in the country's Kaliningrad territory near Poland for nine months, negotiator and former US politician Bill Richardson announced.

Veteran U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it was conducting a "whitewash" and accusing the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking "moral leadership".

Defectors and activists welcomed Tuesday a UN-mandated inquiry's searing indictment of gross human rights abuses in North Korea, but analysts questioned the international community's ability to act on its recommendations.

Google Inc executive chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 per cent of his stake in the Internet search company, a move that could potentially net the former chief executive a $2.51 billion windfall.

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson urged North Korea not to carry out any nuclear tests or use ballistic missiles, he said on Thursday as he returned from a private visit to the isolated country.

The Executive Chairman of US-based Google, one of the world's largest Internet companies, was traveling on Monday to North Korea, a nation with notoriously restrictive online policies.

Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea on a private, humanitarian mission led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that could take place as early as this month, sources told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The sources, two peo...