White House fights and loses battle to withhold Benghazi records
Reuters | Saturday May 18, 2013
President Barack Obama's White House fought and lost a battle to avoid making public what it claimed were confidential records of internal deliberations over the attack on a US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya last September.
Benghazi Consulate attack: A scandal at hand?
Associated Press | Saturday May 11, 2013
Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016.
Associated Press | Thursday May 9, 2013
Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.
China dissident's brother says home attacked with dead poultry, bottles
Reuters | Tuesday April 30, 2013
Security personnel in eastern China are carrying out a nightly harassment campaign against the brother of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the two said on Tuesday, throwing rocks, bottles and dead poultry at his house for 12 nights in a row.
Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy top gift giver to Obama family
Associated Press | Saturday April 27, 2013
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in 2011.
Barack Obama, former presidents rally around George Bush as library opens
Reuters | Friday April 26, 2013
George W. Bush basked in warm praise from President Barack Obama and three fellow former U.S. presidents on Thursday as Bush's library was dedicated in a ceremony that emphasized his resolute response to terrorism while skirting controversies such as...
Commentary: can we get Hillary Clinton without the foolery?
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times | Tuesday April 9, 2013
Please don't ask me this anymore. It's such a silly question. Of course Hillary is running. I've never met a man who was told he could be president who didn't want to be president. So naturally, a woman who's told she can be the first commandress in...
Bill Clinton hints Hillary could run for President in 2016
Press Trust of India | Monday April 8, 2013
Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, could run for the 2016 presidential elections, her husband Bill Clinton has hinted.
Hillary Clinton's every public move generates buzz
Associated Press | Saturday April 6, 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton is getting plenty of encouragement to run for president in 2016.
US issues waiver for sale of major defence equipment to Pakistan
Press Trust of India | Friday April 5, 2013
In an indication of the "positive trajectory" of the bilateral ties, the US has issued a waiver, second in six months, for sale of major defence equipment to Pakistan citing national security interest.
Hillary Clinton book expected in June 2014
Associated Press | Thursday April 4, 2013
She is working on a memoir and policy book about her years as secretary of state, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press. The book has yet to be titled and is tentatively scheduled for June 2014. Financial terms were not disclosed. Clinton report...
Hillary Clinton announces support for gay marriage
Associated Press | Monday March 18, 2013
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her support for gay marriage on Monday, putting her in line with other potential Democratic presidential candidates on a social issue that is rapidly gaining public approval.
Full transcript: General Pervez Musharraf speaks to NDTV
NDTV.com | Friday March 15, 2013
In an exclusive interview to NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he "won't deny" reports that he crossed into Indian territory ahead of the Kargil War in 1999 to spend some time with his troops.
Obama jokes about budget cuts, Biden at exclusive dinner
Sunday March 10, 2013
US President Barack Obama was in his elements over a whopping $85 billion forced spending cuts his administration was facing, saying, "My joke writers have been placed on furlough."
Sarah Jessica Parker fan of Hillary Clinton
Press Trust of India | Sunday March 10, 2013
Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker says she is a fan of former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton because she is cultured and very curious.
