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WASHINGTON Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:15pm EST
Potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton knows a political gift when she sees one.
One million people have been wounded during Syria's civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the World Health Organization'sSyria representative said.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says preparations are under way to reopen long-stalled peace talks with Russian-backed separatists in the Belarusian capital on Sunday.
HAVANA/WASHINGTON Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:17am EST
Russia failed to halt the collapse of the rouble on Tuesday, leaving President Vladimir Putin facing a full-blown currency crisis that could weaken his iron grip on power.
~Ukraine's Poroshenko hails first full overnight truce in rebel east
Ukraine's separatist east passed the night into Tuesday without any shooting, President Petro Poroshenko said, hailing the first such stretch of calm as a positive signal for the next steps in a peace plan.
ran says nuclear talks with U.S. proceed in good atmosphere
In August 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat paid a secret visit to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to meet with King Faisal. Sadat was preparing for war with Israel, and he needed Saudi Arabia to use its most powerful weapon: oil.
President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that he would try to clinch a nuclear deal with world powers despite opposition from some quarters in Iran.