House Chair Condemns Carter, Hamas Talks

The new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday criticized fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter for plans to meet with Hamas, saying the former president holds "warped" views on the Middle East.

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Israeli Calls Ahmadinejad Invite Wrong

Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon criticized the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday for providing a forum for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and what he called abhorrent views.

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Not to embitter the super patriots, the Obama adminstration has silently reformed the immigration process for those escaping torture and persecution in their home countries.

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Iran protestors ask President Obama for help. It's a futile plea. The President would rather talk to a Holocaust Denier.

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A new language class is providing an opportunity for Liberians to learn Mandarin as China expands its economic presence in the West African country.

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Now that the United States and Russia have kissed and made up over missile defence in Eastern Europe, there's a logical next step to averting a new Cold War. Russia should join Nato.

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Obama: a flop on the international stage

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The unrelenting global troubles confronting President Obama are about to converge, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president.

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U.S. embassies are discouraging or suppressing negative reports to Washington about U.S. allies, sometimes depriving officials of information they need to make good policy decisions, current and former diplomats say.

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Former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel (R), a senior administration official-in-waiting either later this term or in President Obama's second term (if there is one), is taking another step into Obama's national security team.

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Russia is to spend almost $500m (£300m) next year reinforcing its military bases in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, the prime minister says. (Vladimir Putin) said Russia was committed to defending and financing the small strip of land in Georgia's north-west corner.

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces clashed with an Iranian opposition group for a second day Wednesday after storming a camp north of Baghdad despite U.S. appeals not to use force against exiles protected for years by American troops.

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Obama's first true Middle East test: Iran

So far Obama hasn't done anything yet that warrants any type of positive praise from me until now.

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Democrats on Sunday defended President Barack Obama's hands-off approach to the crisis in Iran, urging him to keep US "fingerprints" off the unfolding events despite pressure from Republicans for bolder US action.

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President Obama on Saturday selected one of the nation's leading Republican governors to serve as the ambassador to China, nominating Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman for the diplomatic post that Mr. Obama called "as important as any in the world."

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WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to journey to Egypt in June to address the Muslim world, his overtures to the Middle East are paying off in positive feelings toward him from Arab peoples that far outpace the region's critical view of the United States itself,  …

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STRATFOR"S analysis of NATO logistics through Pakistan correctly states that the routes through Pakistan are the shortest. It fails to mention the excellent port facilities and the superb network of roads that exist in Pakistan.

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Clearly this is not the way we're supposed to behave. Clearly this is not what we, as a formerly grumpy, petulant, first-world nation, expect from our president, from our attitude, from our typical chest-thumping, saber-rattling, kill-'em-all posture in the world.

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" WASHINGTON – Bubbling beneath the surface of a highly technical argument about presidential powers at the Supreme Court Monday were implications for future relations between the United States and Iraq.

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — President Barack Obama left Latin America Sunday with a handful of tangible successes, a new book (courtesy of Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez) and a cache of goodwill contingent on promises of change.

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The Cuban government, long the object of a U.S. economic blockade, is prepared to meet with the Obama administration, Cuba's leader said.

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This week, the George Bush era seems remarkably distant. Barack Obama was in Turkey, where he chose to end his eight-day tour of Europe with a speech to the Turkish parliament.

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US President Barack Obama has called for Europeans to be less anti-American during a town-hall-style meeting in France. Mr Obama has been warmly greeted by crowds on his European visit, following his attendance at the G20 summit in London on Thursday.

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President Obama told reporters in Turkey that America is not defined by any one religion.

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The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, said on Friday he had begun laying the groundwork for Senate ratification of a global pact banning nuclear tests.

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More of the same in the foreign policy department, so much in trying to restart the US-Cuban relationship.

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Despite being a Cold War relic, Buchanan has always been right when it comes to foreign policy. NATO has outlived its purpose in the Western World.

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