Paul Richter

Iran's hard-line president said Wednesday he would soon unveil proposals to resolve the international impasse over his country's nuclear program and offered a fresh start with the West. The announcement...

North Korea on Tuesday ordered international nuclear inspectors out of the country and said it would "never again" take part in denuclearization talks, dealing a harsh, early setback to the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Biden warning on Israeli attack Vice president's comments underscore a widening gap between the new Israeli government and the White House Amid growing concern that Israel might attack...

LONDON -- Choosing compromise over division, leaders of the world's most important economies pledged Thursday to offer $1.1 trillion in loans and guarantees to countries most badly damaged by the...

President Barack Obama, speaking on the day Congress began dissecting his budget, ffered a spirited defense Tuesday of his spending plan -- and of the future deficits it projects. He...

Chinese officials and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on the global economic crisis and climate change, while treading carefully around human-rights issues that...

During a grinding 18-month stretch in the 1990s, U.S. envoy George Mitchell crossed the Atlantic more than 100 times in a dogged search for peace between Northern Ireland's Protestants and...

After three years of negotiation, Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a U.S.-India nuclear agreement that its advocates say will form a lasting strategic alliance between the United States and...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting here with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday, downplayed expectations that the signing of a U.S.-Iraq security agreement is imminent. "We'll...