“We’ve developed, I think, a very good rapport,” said Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state, assessing her relationship with President Obama.Credit...Feng Li/Getty Images WASHINGTON — On a snowy Thursday shortly before her weekly meeting with President Obama last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton got a distressing phone call: her husband, Bill Clinton, was in a hospital with chest pains and n
Former UN envoy Kai Eide explains why he held talks with the Taliban Kai Eide, the UN's Special Representative to Afghanistan until earlier this month, has strongly criticized Pakistan for its recent arrest of prominent Taliban leaders. In his first interview since leaving office, Mr Eide confirmed for the first time to BBC's Lyse Doucet that he had held talks with senior Taliban representatives,
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The international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators has urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity. Speaking for the Quartet, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel's announcement of plans to build new homes in disputed East Jerusalem. That move was criticised as undermining efforts to restart peace talks. Speaking to the BBC, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton indicated tha
Borrowing methods developed to study the genetics of human disease, researchers have concluded that dogs were probably first domesticated from wolves somewhere in the Middle East, in contrast to an earlier survey suggesting dogs originated in East Asia. This finding puts the first known domestication — that of dogs — in the same place as the domestication of plants and other animals, and strengthe
The track by The Undertones took over the airwaves at the end of the news at 7pm and just before The Archers, prompting a frenzy of tweets applauding the rumoured act of "guerrilla broadcasting". Twitter was abuzz with suggestions it was a hijack by disgruntled BBC 6 Music employees who have so far seen their appeals for the station to be saved rebuffed by BBC director general Mark Thompson. The B
The UN's former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has strongly criticised Pakistan's recent arrest of high-ranking Taliban leaders. Mr Eide told the BBC the arrests had completely stopped a channel of secret communications with the UN. Pakistani officials insist the arrests were not an attempt to spoil talks. Mr Eide confirmed publicly for the first time that his secret contacts with senior Taliban
Page last updated at 03:52 GMT, Friday, 19 March 2010 Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general's claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers. A defence ministry spokesman dismissed as "complete nonsense" the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander. Gen Sheehan had been speaking at a US Senate hearing on allowing gay people to serve
An Applied Materials research lab in Xi’an, China. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is the largest supplier of the equipment used to make semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays.Credit...Shiho Fukada for The New York Times XI’AN, China — For years, many of China’s best and brightest left for the United States, where high-tech industry was more cutting-edge. But Mark R. Pinto is moving
For Israel and America, a Disagreement, Not a Crisis Washington ISRAEL and America enjoy a deep and multi-layered friendship, but even the closest allies can sometimes disagree. Such a disagreement began last week during Vice President Joseph Biden’s visit to Israel, when a mid-level official in the Interior Ministry announced an interim planning phase in the expansion of Ramat Shlomo, a northern
Fish dealers with bluefin tuna at a market in Tokyo on Thursday.Credit...Koji Sasahara/Associated Press Delegates at a United Nations conference on endangered species in Doha, Qatar, soundly defeated American-supported proposals on Thursday to ban international trade in bluefin tuna and to protect polar bears. Atlantic and Mediterranean stocks of bluefin, a fish prized especially by Japanese sushi
Published Mar 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 9:13 PM EST Back when President Obama lived in Indonesia, in the late 1960s, China loomed as a malign force to the north, where communist cadres plotted to export their revolution to the rest of Asia. The Jakarta he'll visit later this month has an entirely different attitude toward the People's Republic. Local companies are doing deals
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