Middle East peace talks will be the focus when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama on Tuesday, officials from both countries said. Right now, Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas aren’t talking directly. They are communicating only through U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who serves as a go-between for negotiations. [...]
US President Barack Obama has defended his government’s handling of the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He unveiled a series of measures, including a continued moratorium on drilling permits for six months. The move comes after an opinion poll said 60% of Americans were unhappy with the government’s response. BP has suspended [...]
Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period.” That grim assessment is contained in an unclassified DHS [...]
Hillary Clinton says the international community must respond to the growing crisis surrounding the sinking of a South Korean warship. She said there was “overwhelming” evidence that North Korea was to blame, and urged Pyongyang to its “policy of belligerence halt”. Mrs. Clinton was in South Korea, said at the end of an Asia tour. [...]
