The U.N. Security Council was poised Saturday to penalize North Korea for launching a missile, with the five permanent members plus Japan agreeing to slightly tighten sanctions against North Korea after haggling for a week. ...more

April 12, 2009

Iran played down President Barack Obama's new video message to the Iranian people on Friday, saying it welcomed the overtures but warned that decades of mistrust can't easily be erased. ...more

March 20, 2009

President Barack Obama's top envoy to Afghanistan declared Sunday that Iran should play a vital role helping stabilize the war-torn country. It was the latest statement by Obama officials signaling a clear shift away from the Bush administration's policy of avoiding direct engagement with Tehran. ...more

February 16, 2009

We have created a global financial crisis that affected financial institutions worldwide. ...more

September 30, 2008

WASHINGTON — The first presidential debate of the 2008 general election began as an assertion-laden exchange, with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain confronting each other with claims ranging from the financial crisis to taxes. Some left out key facts. ...more

September 26, 2008

Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the American empire" is nearing collapse. ...more

September 24, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is avoiding a public face-off with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the new female star of the campaign, while still raising money and votes for the Democrat who wrested the presidential nomination from her. ...more

September 18, 2008

Iraq's drive to forge ties with Sunni-led Arab neighbors, who it says have shunned its Shiite Muslim leadership, got a boost Monday when Jordan's King Abdullah II became the first leader of an Arab nation to visit since the fall of Saddam Hussein. ...more

August 12, 2008

During the weekend, Iran failed to respond to an informal two-week deadline to give a yes-or-no answer to negotiations on dismantling critical parts of its nuclear program. Instead, it was busy unleashing a flurry of diplomatic and military activity to bolster its position. ...more

August 4, 2008

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday his country dramatically expanded the number of machines at its disposal producing enriched uranium, defying demands for the country to halt the production of nuclear material. ...more

July 27, 2008