Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born scholar known for her advocacy for women abused in Islamic societies said Wednesday a decision by Brandeis University to withdraw an honorary degree she was to…
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday the U.S. had told Iran that its nomination as ambassador to the U.N. of a man linked to the 1979 American hostage crisis is “not viable” –…
Secretary of State John Kerry took exception Tuesday to an assertion by a Republican senator that the Obama administration’s foreign policy is “spinning out of control,” insisting that “that’s…
The vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom told a Capitol Hill hearing that many members of India’s religious minority worry that religious freedom will be…
White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday hinted at a Russian hand behind unrest in eastern Ukraine, but said that although authorities are in place for further sanctions against Moscow…
Rep. Frank Wolf said Monday the ousting of Mozilla Corp. CEO Brendan Eich over his views on traditional marriage had deeply troubling implications for freedom of speech and religion. “America…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez said Sunday that while the Iranians in the nuclear talks “are smiling at our negotiators across the table, they are plotting in the…
On the eve of a visit to China, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a firm message to Beijing Sunday about the need to respect its neighbors, drawing a comparison between Russia’s takeover…
Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters this week that none of the 15 international treaties which Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has applied to join are not United Nations…
A State Department spokeswoman expressed surprise Thursday to hear that a purported “fatwa” by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prohibiting nuclear weapons, which President Obama and…
Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power on Wednesday asked congressional appropriators to support additional funding for U.N. peacekeeping, but said the administration was also pressing…
Arguing for a waiver, ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said Wednesday defunding U.N. agencies that admit “Palestine” constitutes a “double win” for the Palestinians: They get to join the…
“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…