The United States and Russia are “quite close” to agreeing a new START nuclear arms reduction pact, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday.
“Weve been making excellent progress,” Obama said of the arms reduction talks. “We are quite close to an agreement.”
Obama met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of U.
President Barack Obama said the U.S.and Russia are quite close to agreeing on terms for anuclear arms reduction treaty.
Medvedev said the U.S. and Russian positions on the treatyare very close.
Were making excellent progress, Obama said after heand Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met in Copenhagen, wherethe two leaders are attending a United Nations summit on climatechange.
The attorney general’s office in North Carolina is petitioning the state Supreme Court to block the release of two convicted killers who had been serving life sentences.
State courts previously sided with the inmates in determining their life sentences were actually defined in the 1970s as 80 years.
An American student who disappeared in November most likely fell drunkenly into the city’s Main River, Frankfurt police said Friday.
Police said in a statement that dogs traced Holllahan’s trail to the banks of the river, and that authorities found a shoe believed to be his in the waters.
Devon Hollahan, 22, who had been teaching English [...]
A judge filed preliminary charges against former President Jacques Chirac on Friday over allegations that Paris City Hall paid for jobs in his political party when was mayor, part of a financing scandal that has long dogged the man who for decades dominated French politics.
An investigating judge questioned Chirac on Friday about seven jobs at [...]
A government watchdog says a lack of basic infrastructure in Afghanistan is slowing the U.S. effort to build up Afghanistan’s security forces.
Expanding and improving the Afghan army and police is a key element in President Barack Obama’s strategy for stabilizing Afghanistan so U.S. troops can begin to come home.
A look at key issues in the health care debate:
THE POLITICS: Health insurance in the United States is provided primarily by employers. The government picks up coverage for retirees and the disabled through Medicare, for the poor through Medicaid, and for military veterans and members of Indian tribes.
The U.N. refugee agency says a record number of Africans fleeing war, droughts and poverty have crossed the Gulf of Aden into Yemen this year.
Most cross the Gulf of Aden in rickety and overcrowded vessels run by smugglers.
UNHCR says an estimated 74,000 Africans, mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia, have fled to Yemen as refugees or [...]
President Barack Obamas firstclosed-door meeting with world leaders in Copenhagen to forge anagreement to slow climate change had a notable absentee: ChinesePremier Wen Jiabao.
Obama later expressed frustration about the stalled UnitedNations talks. Negotiations have become chaotic, people involvedin the meetings said.
The Obama administration said it has several concerns about Sen. Jon Tester’s plan to create more wilderness and mandate more logging in Montana’s national forests.
Agriculture Undersecretary Harris Sherman, who oversees the Forest Service, said he was concerned that the bill’s cost and mandates could create a harmful precedent for other national forests.
