LONDON - Foreign Secretary David Miliband voiced concern Monday over clashes between police and protesters in Iran, urging the Islamic republic not to stifle its people. I share the concern of many people about the use of force to stifle demonst
TOKYO - Japan's foreign minister toured the southern island of Okinawa to meet with local officials Saturday to seek a compromise over the relocation of a U.S. military base at the center of a dispute with Washington. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada
GENEVA - A decision by voters in Switzerland to ban the construction of new mosque minarets will endanger security, Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said on Tuesday. In any event, we are concerned by this vote, she told a meeting of the Organ
JERUSALEM - Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is to visit Greece, Russia and Ukraine this week to present Israel's case in the Middle East peace process after a joint cabinet meeting in Germany, his office said on Sunday. He will make the case tha
SKOPJE - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Friday he did not expect a Greek veto on Macedonia's bid to join the European Union because of an 18-year-old name dispute between Athens and Skopje. I don't think things are going in that directio
BELFAST - Father Michael Sinnot, an Irish priest kidnapped in the Philippines one month ago, has been freed, Ireland's Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said late Wednesday in Belfast. He has been handed over to a clinic where he is being looked aft
TOKYO - Japan's foreign minister said Sunday that no deal on relocating U.S. troops on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa can be expected during President Barack Obama's visit this week, saying the issue needs more time to resolve. Obama is sch
PARIS - President Hamid Karzai is corrupt but NATO has to accept that he is our guy in Afghanistan, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, according to the New York Times on Thursday. Kouchner also complained that President Barack Obama
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