After settlement freeze announcement, Israeli foreign minister says ball in Palestinian court Israel's foreign minister said Thursday it is up to the Palestinians ...
Obama administration revises statement on land mine policy, says review ongoing The Obama administration is backtracking on an announcement that it had reviewed ...
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - NOVEMBER 24: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (L) meets Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad (R) during his visit to the West Bank on November 24, 2009 in Ramallah. The new German foreign minister made the short journey to ...
A senior Israeli official has met with the foreign minister of Oman on the sidelines of a water meeting in Muscat, the Haaretz daily reported on Tuesday. Yossi Gal, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry, met with Omani Foreign Minister Yusef ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. acceptance of a treaty banning landmines is "long, long overdue" and President Barack Obama should use a 10-year review this weekend to announce plans to join the accord, anti-landmines campaigners said on Monday. The treaty, which went into ...
The United States said Monday it was in talks with Russia to maintain monitoring provisions set out in an arms reduction treaty that expires next month before a new deal is ratified. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the Obama administration still ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not attend an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers' meeting in early December in Athens, a Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman said. "Today the U.S. ambassador informed us that ...
Taiwan's Premier Wu Den-yih has urged China to remove missiles targeting the island to pave the way for peace talks between the formal arch-rivals, according to a report. Beijing needed to build deeper trust with Taiwan by removing the rockets as well ...
Nepal's former king has been given his first passport aged 63, a year-and-a-half after stepping down from the throne, the government said Friday. Nepal's foreign ministry said it had issued a diplomatic passport to Gyanendra Shah, who left the royal palace in ...
'Rompuy-pumpy' and Cathy Who?: Critics underwhelmed by EU's choice for new top jobs Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery. Ashton is Europe's new foreign policy chief, the international representative of half a billion people, with a euro7 billion ($10.5 billion) budget and ...
Opposition chief Tzipi Livni reiterated her support Friday for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world. However, speaking at a forum in the coastal city of ...
Efforts to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly "yield a success," the UN's top climate official has pledged. "There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that it will yield a success," said Yvo de Boer, executive ...
