By Karen Tumulty and Mark Thompson Thursday, Dec. 04, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama announces his national security team during a news conference in Chicago, Dec. 1, 2008.
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It was hard to miss the message that Barack Obama was sending with the powerful...
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Solomon Tembang Mforgham, AfricaNews reporter in Limbe, Cameroon
Cameroon has been named the second worst county for journalists in Africa, a report from the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said.
Following the news that Lewis...
Chavez Offers Island As Temporary Base; Analyst Says Such A Move By Kremlin Would Make No Military Sense
A file photo of a Russian TU-95 strategic bomber surrounded by MiG-29s. (Getty Images/AFP/Stringer)
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Russian Warships In Backyard: "It's Fine"
Kyrgyz Leader...
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Members of a high-profile European parliamentary delegation are urging their governments to engage in direct talks with Hamas and end the Islamic movement's international isolation. The push comes after a marathon meeting Saturday between the...
Année 2018. Les familles d'un soldat et d'un sous-officier américains reçoivent 100 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts de la firme Milibots Inc. Les deux militaires, pris comme boucliers humains par des insurgés afghans qui venaient de s'emparer de leur batterie mobile de missiles, ont été...
(CNN) -- Prince William has spoken in depth publicly for the first time about death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, 12 years ago, saying "mummy" is now a hollow word "evoking only memories."
Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a Paris car crash 12 years ago.
var...
By Arthur Brice
(CNN) -- The $410 billion budget President Obama signed Wednesday will make it easier for U.S. residents to travel to Cuba and to send money to family members on the island. It also could facilitate the sale of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba.
The residents...
WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) -- The teenager who killed 15 people in Germany issued a warning about the attack on the Internet the night before his rampage, saying "I have got a weapon here and... I am going to go to my former school and give them hell."
Teenagers lay flowers at the school where...
Russia says it has become the world's biggest consumer of heroin.
The head of Russia's anti-narcotics service, Victor Ivanov, said that seizures of Afghan heroin were up 70%.
Speaking ahead of a meeting in Vienna of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, he called on the UN to do more to...
By Elise Labott
CNN State Department Producer
(CNN) -- The practice of dealing with your enemy has a name; it's called realism. And for the Obama administration -- in the Middle East and around the world -- it rules the day.
The Obama administration's success in the Middle East could rest...
