Iran’s hardline president is lashing out anew at the United States and President Barack Obama.
“Why did he interfere?” Ahmadinejad said in remarks to judiciary officials shown on Iranian state television Saturday.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was re-elected this month in disputed vote that sparked huge protests, says the U.
The White House is considering whether to issue an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, concerned that Congress might otherwise stymie its plans to quickly close the naval prison in Cuba.
No final decisions have been made about the order, which would be the fourth major mandate by President Barack [...]
In the legal equivalent of running up the score, the National Football League is going to the Supreme Court in search of a bigger victory in an antitrust tussle over team merchandise than it already won from a lower court.
At the heart of the matter is whether the NFL’s teams constitute 32 distinct businesses or [...]
Football may be the nation’s most popular sport, but baseball is the favored game with the Supreme Court, which gave the national pastime an exemption from antitrust laws in 1922.
Now, the NFL is back before the high court, hoping to get at least some relief from what it says are frivolous antitrust lawsuits.
For Ban Ki-moon, bringing about a new U.N. climate treaty by the end of this year is a must.
Since then Ban says he has put “all my efforts and energy” into persuading nations to cut a new climate deal in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, replacing the Kyoto Protocol for reducing greenhouse gases that expires in [...]
Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight countries meeting in Italy lamented corruption and the lack of basic services such as health and water in Afghanistan, saying Friday that better cooperation among countries in the region was needed to promote stability.
Improving security in the troubled region is a focus of the three-day meeting in this [...]
Louis Gerstner, the formerInternational Business Machines Corp. chief executive officer,praised President Barack Obamas economic performance whilecriticizing the way the White House handled restructurings ofGeneral Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.
In February, Obama named Steven Rattner, co-founder ofprivate-equity firm Quadrangle Group LLC, as chief adviser onauto-industry issues, and Ron Bloom, a former vice president atinvestment bank Lazard [...]
The Group of Eight leading powers on Friday deplored post-election violence in Iran but refrained from questioning President Mahmoud Ahmedinejads re-election victory.
“We want violence to stop immediately,” Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told a news conference after releasing the declaration from the G8: Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.
A new wave of US Marines sent to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama to turn the table on Taliban insurgents is in position and ready for action, according to the military.
“All the Marines being deployed have now got here,” Lieutenant Abe Sipe, spokesman for the brigade, said Friday. “Our overall troop number is 10,700, of [...]
A longtime advocate for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault was named to a new post Friday as a White House adviser on violence against women.
“What I’m about to say is not a knock or a criticism on the last administration or anybody else,” Biden said, but “one of the sins of omission is [...]
