“How would we feel … if the Taliban had sent Osama bin Laden to be an ambassador to the United Nations from Afghanistan?” Sen. Ted Cruz asked Tuesday. He was introducing legislation aimed at…
President Obama said Thursday he assured Pope Francis during their meeting at the Vatican “that it is central to U.S. foreign policy that we protect the interests of religious minorities around…
President Obama said Pope Francis did not raise Obamacare “in detail” when they met on Thursday, but that in a separate meeting with the Vatican’s secretary of state “we discussed briefly the…
President Obama on Wednesday had an opportunity to voice support for future NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, but instead said, “I think that neither Ukraine or Georgia are currently on a…
President Obama said Tuesday that tougher sanctions which would be imposed should Russia encroach further into Ukraine would cause “some disruption … to the global economy” and “cause some…
At a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday some of the council’s most authoritarian members one by one tried to get the chair to silence a speaker who was evidently embarrassing the…
First Lady Michelle Obama included cautious but clear remarks on freedom of expression and religion in a speech in Beijing at the weekend – comments that were ignored in state media coverage of…
Nearly two decades after then-First Lady Hillary Clinton condemned forced abortion in a speech in Beijing, human rights campaigners say First Lady Michelle Obama should do the same.
As the search continues for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announces Thursday hat surveillance aircraft have been deployed to check two objects…
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power drew a sharp reprimand from her Russian counterpart Wednesday after saying his stance on Crimea “showed more imagination than Tolstoy or Chekhov” and…
Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of its Crimea region is “the most serious security crisis since the end of the Cold War,” NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen…
A North Korean who was born in a camp for political prisoners and saw family members executed appealed to the U.N. Human Rights Council to “relieve my North Korean brothers and sisters,” saying…
Hosting Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office on Monday, President Obama described his visitor as “somebody who has consistently renounced violence” – a view in stark…
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) said Monday the possibility should not be ruled out that the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft may be in terrorists’…
Sending Secretary of State John Kerry to negotiate with his Russian counterpart in a bid to avert a Moscow-backed referendum in Crimea was “like sending a cupcake to negotiate with a steak knife…
Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday the administration was in favor of exporting liquefied natural gas to Ukraine as a way of reducing its energy dependency on Russia. But after he noted…
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday analogized the politically-explosive referendum in the Ukrainian region of Crimea on Sunday to the choice faced by the 13 American colonies in…
At the launch of a new umbrella group for America Muslim organizations, a leader said the number of Muslims in the U.S. was estimated at seven to eight million, but “opponents” claim the number…
CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday that there was “a lot of speculation right now” about the the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, but he would “not at all” rule out the possibility…
CIA Director John Brennan said on Tuesday that al-Qaeda’s ideology, built on “a perverse and very corrupt interpretation of the Qur’an,” resonates in many parts of the world, and is often fed…
E.U. foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton, on a “goodwill” visit to Iran, commented that she had celebrated International Women’s Day with a group of Iranian women on Sunday. But the regime is…
Speaking about Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and the U.S. response, former Vice-President Dick Cheney said Sunday there is “no question” Russian President Vladimir Putin believes President…
The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled steps it is taking against those who have threatened Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, but a State Department spokeswoman hinted that…
Citing incidents like the winter freeze over North America and devastating floods in England, U.N. climate change chief Christiana Figueres says, “It’s unfortunate that we have to have these…
The State Department is disputing claims by CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin that U.S. consular officials provided no help when she was detained at an airport in Cairo for more than 12 hours,…