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  • ** FILE ** Former U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton (Associated Press)

    John Bolton slams Obama-Putin meeting: What a 'predictable' waste of time

    ohn R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, weighed in on Tuesday morning on the obviously uncomfortable get-together of President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin, characterizing the attempt to find common ground on Syria a pure waste of time.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during a media conference after a G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Russia's Putin hangs tough on Syria at G-8 summit

    Outnumbered at the just-completed G-8 conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not give an inch on Syria, preferring to maintain one of Russia's most valuable, though unpopular, alliances.

  • "It will be harder to be a friend of Israel if we are out of money," Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said in Israel while stating his belief that the U.S. cannot keep borrowing money so it can keep writing checks to other countries.
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    Rand Paul's call to end foreign aid concerns Israel

    Sen. Rand Paul's call to end U.S. foreign aid, including to Israel, set off a debate not only within Mr. Paul's Republican Party in America, but also among Israelis, for whom decades of U.S. financial backing have become an accepted norm.

  • Protesters cut up a North Korean flag during an anti-North Korea rally in downtown Seoul on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, to denounce the cancellation of the Koreas' high-level talks, which were scrapped a day before they were to begin Wednesday because the sides didn't agree on the delegation leaders, South Korea said. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

    North Korea proposes high-level talks with U.S.

    North Korea's top governing body on Sunday proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off talks with rival South Korea.

  • ** FILE ** Mourners carry the coffin of a man killed in a liquor store attack in Baghdad, Iraq, May 15, 2013. More than a year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the country is reeling from its most sustained violence since 2008. Over the last two months more than 1,200 people have been killed, raising fears the country is sliding back into chaos. (Associated Press)

    Rocket attack kills 2 Iranian dissidents, wounds dozens in Iraq

    The Obama administration condemned as an "unprovoked terrorist attack" a rocket assault on a camp for Iranian dissidents in Iraq that killed two people and injured more than three dozen on Saturday.

  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    CARDENAS: The 'Cubanization' of Venezuela

    One of the greatest ironies of the late strongman Hugo Chavez's rule was that even as he attempted to personify Venezuelan nationalism, he was quietly outsourcing more and more of the country's sovereignty to the Castro brothers in Cuba.

  • ** FILE ** United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (AP Photo/Mark Garten)

    U.N. report: Syrian military, rebel fighters recruiting thousands of kids to fight

    The United Nations says children are being recruited to fight for both Syrian government forces and rebel fighters, and that thousands have been killed in recent months.

  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview on April 17, 2013. (Associated Press/Syrian State TV via AP video)

    Obama says Syria has crossed 'red line' with chemical weapons, will send weapons

    The Syrian government used chemical weapons against rebel forces trying to overthrow the regime, the Obama administration said Thursday, acknowledging that President Bashar Assad has without doubt crossed the "red line" President Obama laid down for U.S. action in the country's bloody civil war.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    SMITH: China draws a line in the ocean

    Chinese Senior Col. Zhou Bo made headlines at the annual Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, held from May 31 to June 2, when he announced that Chinese ships have been conducting reconnaissance operations in America's Exclusive Economic Zone.

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    SADAR: Climate-change hype turns 25

    Global-warming hysteria was launched 25 years ago this month. On June 23, 1988, James Hansen of NASA testified before a congressional hearing and the world that "the greenhouse effect is here and is affecting our climate now."

  • In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers stand guard at a scene of two explosions in the central district of Marjeh, Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. State TV said the blasts were caused by suicide bombers, while activists said they were bombs planted there in advance. (AP Photo/SANA)

    Bombs hit Syrian capital, at least 14 killed

    Two suicide bombers targeted a police station Tuesday in Damascus, activists said, killing at least 14 people and showing the ability of insurgents to strike in the heart of the capital after rebels fighting to oust the regime suffered major battlefield setbacks elsewhere in the country.

  • Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.N. Ambassador, listens to Obama speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, where he made the announcement. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    EDITORIAL: The Power nomination

    A leopard can't change its spots, but can an interventionist resist the urge to intervene? That's the question senators must pose to Samantha Power, President Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at her confirmation hearing, coming up soon.

  • Richard A. Falk, an American who is U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, answers journalists' questions during a press conference after he presented his report to the U.N. Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

    U.N. investigator accused of anti-Semitism won’t resign

    An embattled investigator for the United Nations whose reputation has been tainted by charges of anti-Semitism said Tuesday that he won't resign and that he's being unfairly targeted.

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    ALLARD: Scandalmania

    President Obama has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. In elevating truth-challenged U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice to the government's premier national security position, Mr. Obama effectively flashed an upturned middle finger toward his critics as if to say, "I'm large and in charge. If you have a problem with her, then come and get me."

  • Hundreds of bystanders watch as Kepari Leniata, a woman accused of witchcraft, is burned alive in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Post Courier)

    Teacher publicly tortured, beheaded for witchcraft in Papua New Guinea

    A female teacher was publicly tortured and beheaded by a mob of villagers in Papua New Guinea after she was accused of using sorcery against a neighbor, the Associated Press reported Monday.

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