Mark Landler New York Times

China's vice president and likely future leader, Xi Jinping, embarked on a get-to-know-you tour of the United States on Tuesday, with a day of meetings from the White House to the Pentagon. But he was met with blunt criticism from his host, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who declared that the United States and China could cooperate "only if th...

Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 am Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged "press reports" of Mr. Kim's death well after North Korean state media had already announce...

Rumors about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's next job pop up regularly in Washington, but she and her aides knocked down a report this week that she was in talks to become president of the World Bank with more vehemence than with previous rumors, including that she was in line for defense secretary or might elbow Vice President Joseph R...

In an address to both houses of the British Parliament in Westminster Hall, President Obama said Wednesday that the United States and Britain remain "indispensible" nations for peace and stability and the "greatest catalysts for global action" in a time of war, terrorism and economic insecurity. Highlighting the need for a "new era of cooperation" ...

President Obama visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath at a memorial to the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks, six days after ordering a daring night-time raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the author of the terrorist attack that turned the patch of land in lower Manhattan into hallowed ground. Mr Obama, in his first visit as...

President Obama decided Wednesday not to release graphic photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse, as new details emerged about the raid on Bin Laden's fortified compound that differed from the administration's initial account of the 40-minute operation. Mr. Obama, after a brief but intense debate within his war council, concluded that making the im...

Osama bin Laden was not carrying a weapon when he was killed by American troops in a fortified house in Pakistan, the White House said Tuesday, as it revised its initial account of the nighttime raid.Members of a Navy Seals team burst in on Bin Laden in the compound where he was hiding and shot him in a room on an upper floor, after a fierce gun ba...

US President Obama invited former President George W Bush to join him at ground zero in New York City on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Mr. Bush declined, a spokesman for the former president confirmed on Tuesday."President Bush will not be in attendance on Thursday," said his spokesman, David Sherzer. "He appreciated the invi...

President Obama worked on Tuesday to bridge differences among allies about how to manage the military campaign in Libya, as airstrikes continued to rock Tripoli and forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi showed no sign of ending their sieges of rebel-held cities. On a day when two United States airmen bailed out over Libya and were rescued after t...

The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military action, including airstrikes against Libyan tanks and heavy artillery and a no-fly zone, a risky foreign intervention aimed at averting a bloody rout of rebels by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi. After days of often acrimonious debate, played out against a desperate cl...

The United States began moving warships toward Libya and froze $30 billion in the country's assets on Monday as the administration declared all options on the table in its diplomatic, economic and military campaign to drive Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi from power. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the administration was conferring with alli...

The United States closed its embassy in Tripoli on Friday and imposed unilateral sanctions against Libya, including the freezing of billions in government assets, as the Obama administration made its most aggressive move against Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi since his security forces opened fire on protesters. Just minutes after a charter flight left Tri...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen Marc Grossman, a retired senior diplomat and former ambassador to Turkey, as the Obama administration's new special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior State Department official said Monday. Mr. Grossman, who left the State Department in 2005 and is the vice chairman of a consul...

The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, turning over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military, administration officials and Arab diplomats said ThursdayEven though Mr. Mubarak has balked, so...

President Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for another term in elections scheduled for the fall, appearing on state television to promise an orderly transition but he would serve out his term. In comments translated by CNN, he swore that he would die in Egypt.Television cameras showed the vast crowds gathered in central Tahrir Square i...

China's vice president and likely future leader, Xi Jinping, embarked on a get-to-know-you tour of the United States on Tuesday, with a day of meetings from the White House to the Pentagon. But he was met with blunt criticism from his host, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who declared that the United States and China could cooperate "only if th...

Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 am Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged "press reports" of Mr. Kim's death well after North Korean state media had already announce...

Rumors about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's next job pop up regularly in Washington, but she and her aides knocked down a report this week that she was in talks to become president of the World Bank with more vehemence than with previous rumors, including that she was in line for defense secretary or might elbow Vice President Joseph R...

In an address to both houses of the British Parliament in Westminster Hall, President Obama said Wednesday that the United States and Britain remain "indispensible" nations for peace and stability and the "greatest catalysts for global action" in a time of war, terrorism and economic insecurity. Highlighting the need for a "new era of cooperation" ...

President Obama visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath at a memorial to the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks, six days after ordering a daring night-time raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the author of the terrorist attack that turned the patch of land in lower Manhattan into hallowed ground. Mr Obama, in his first visit as...

President Obama decided Wednesday not to release graphic photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse, as new details emerged about the raid on Bin Laden's fortified compound that differed from the administration's initial account of the 40-minute operation. Mr. Obama, after a brief but intense debate within his war council, concluded that making the im...

Osama bin Laden was not carrying a weapon when he was killed by American troops in a fortified house in Pakistan, the White House said Tuesday, as it revised its initial account of the nighttime raid.Members of a Navy Seals team burst in on Bin Laden in the compound where he was hiding and shot him in a room on an upper floor, after a fierce gun ba...

US President Obama invited former President George W Bush to join him at ground zero in New York City on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Mr. Bush declined, a spokesman for the former president confirmed on Tuesday."President Bush will not be in attendance on Thursday," said his spokesman, David Sherzer. "He appreciated the invi...

President Obama worked on Tuesday to bridge differences among allies about how to manage the military campaign in Libya, as airstrikes continued to rock Tripoli and forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi showed no sign of ending their sieges of rebel-held cities. On a day when two United States airmen bailed out over Libya and were rescued after t...

The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military action, including airstrikes against Libyan tanks and heavy artillery and a no-fly zone, a risky foreign intervention aimed at averting a bloody rout of rebels by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi. After days of often acrimonious debate, played out against a desperate cl...

The United States began moving warships toward Libya and froze $30 billion in the country's assets on Monday as the administration declared all options on the table in its diplomatic, economic and military campaign to drive Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi from power. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the administration was conferring with alli...

The United States closed its embassy in Tripoli on Friday and imposed unilateral sanctions against Libya, including the freezing of billions in government assets, as the Obama administration made its most aggressive move against Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi since his security forces opened fire on protesters. Just minutes after a charter flight left Tri...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen Marc Grossman, a retired senior diplomat and former ambassador to Turkey, as the Obama administration's new special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior State Department official said Monday. Mr. Grossman, who left the State Department in 2005 and is the vice chairman of a consul...

The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, turning over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military, administration officials and Arab diplomats said ThursdayEven though Mr. Mubarak has balked, so...

President Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for another term in elections scheduled for the fall, appearing on state television to promise an orderly transition but he would serve out his term. In comments translated by CNN, he swore that he would die in Egypt.Television cameras showed the vast crowds gathered in central Tahrir Square i...