Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared Monday that the United States will remain in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future, no matter what President Obama decides on immediate troop levels. “We’re not leaving Afghanistan,” Gates said in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that also included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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Amanpour exclusive interview with Clinton, Gates
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S
Congresswoman’s husband dies in Tibet, spokesman says
Clifton Maloney — the 71-year-old husband of U.S. Rep.
U.S.: Drone hits Islamic Party building in Mosul
A U.S. drone crashed in northern Iraq Saturday morning, damaging the Mosul branch of the powerful Iraqi Islamic Party — the nation’s largest Sunni political party, a U.S.
Clintons share stage, kiss during global initiative event
One of America’s pre-eminent political power couples made a rare joint appearance Friday, when Bill and Hillary Clinton took the stage at the former president’s Clinton Global Initiative conference. “I want to begin by expressing my extreme indebtedness to the Clinton Global Initiative, to all of you who participated, for giving me the first chance I have had in a week to see Hillary,” Bill Clinton told the audience of social activists and business leaders at the closing session of CGI, a week-long conference designed to find solutions to global problems through public and private partnerships.
Schneider: Why party conventions still exist
Conventions are relics. They don’t decide the nominees anymore — that’s been turned over to primary voters.
CNN Future Summit forum
A new breed of life-saving robot is being developed that take their shape and movement from snakes, and, it is hoped, will prove invaluable not only in search and rescue operations but also be a great asset to human surgery. (Full story) (CNN) — Conventions are relics.
Israel approves construction of more settlements
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 455 housing units in the West Bank, his office said Monday.
Bus crash in mountainous Kashmir kills 20, injures 26
At least 20 people were killed and 26 others injured, 21 of them seriously, Monday afternoon in a road accident in the mountainous Doda district of Indian administered Kashmir. The move comes as Israel and the United States have been increasingly at odds over the settlement issue.
State Dept. officials: U.S. halting more aid to Honduras
The United States is terminating all non-humanitarian aid to the de facto Honduran government to pressure it to return its ousted president to power, the State Department announced Thursday.