After more than a decade of using the stick in relations with Burma's military junta, the administration of US President Barack Obama has shown signs it also intends to use the carrot - at the risk of upsetting exiled Burmese opposition groups.
A day after US President Barack Obama vowed to repeal a ban on gays serving openly in the US military, tens of thousands of gay activists marched on Washington Sunday to pressure Obama and Democrats to follow through on their promise.
In a move that is bound to raise alarm bells in Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosts the second Africa-South America summit this weekend in what he called a bid to build “a multi-polar world” to oppose US global hegemony.
As a US deadline for Iran to respond to an offer of new nuclear talks looms, Iran's chief negotiator says Tehran has prepared an “updated nuclear proposal”. But a senior US official has dismissed the offer as containing "not a hint of substance".
After Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC, he said that Obama had made it clear, during his visit to Cairo in June, that the US was not opposed to Islam.
Nobel Peace Prize-winning Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is set to mediate talks Thursday between interim Honduran leader, Roberto Micheletti, and Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted from the Honduran presidential post in a June 28 coup.
Protesters took to the streets of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa as ousted President Manuel Zelaya headed to Washington for a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a day after he was blocked from returning home.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the appointment Friday of Indian-born Farah Pandith (pictured) as the first US envoy charged with engaging with the Muslim world.
After hours of bitter debate, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed critical legislation on carbon emissions linked to climate change. US President Barack Obama hailed the passage as a “bold and necessary step”.
