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James Morrison

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James Morrison joined the The Washington Times in 1983 as a local reporter covering Alexandria, Va. A year later, he was assigned to open a Times bureau in Canada. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Morrison was The Washington Times reporter in London, covering Britain, Western Europe and NATO issues. After returning to Washington, he served as an assistant foreign editor until his transfer to the Metro desk as the Virginia editor. Mr. Morrison returned to the Foreign Desk in 1993 to launch the Embassy Row column, a diplomatic news column primarily focusing on foreign ambassadors in the United States and U.S. ambassadors abroad. The column is the only one of its kind in U.S. journalism.
Mr. Morrison was born on Nov. 27, 1950, in Charleston, W.Va. His father worked as a printer for the Charleston Gazette and later relocated to Washington to work as a photo engraver at The Washington Post until his retirement. Before joining The Washington Times, James Morrison was a reporter for the Springfield, Va., Times, the Northern Virginia Sun and the Alexandria Gazette. He attended American University.

Articles by James Morrison

Embassy Row

The U.S. Embassy in Syria shut down Thursday as riot police surrounded the diplomatic mission to guard it from thousands of demonstrators protesting a U.S. military raid against suspected terrorists inside Syrian territory.

October 31, 2008

Embassy Row

Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani is wondering why foreign governments can bail out banks in their own countries but ignore the economic meltdown in his South Asian nation, where a financial collapse could encourage extremists and undermine the global war against terrorism.

October 30, 2008

Embassy Row

Diplomatic traffic in Washington this week.

October 27, 2008

Embassy Row

In a farewell speech Thursday, U.S. Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman faulted Romania for failing to control corruption, enforce the rule of law, promote the health of its citizens and create a prosperous economy to prevent talented young professionals from leaving the country for better jobs.

October 24, 2008

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Canada praised the bravery of Canadian soldiers fighting alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan and warned of the continuing threat of terrorism as he began a farewell tour across America's northern neighbor.

October 23, 2008

Embassy Row

"Change" may be the theme of the American presidential campaign, but the man likely to be the next president of South Africa will have none of it.

October 22, 2008

Embassy Row

A list of this week's foreign visitors to Washington.

October 20, 2008

Embassy Row

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Palestinians to continue dismantling the "infrastructure of terrorism and to promote an atmosphere of tolerance," as she praised Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad for his efforts to combat extremism and corruption.

October 17, 2008

Embassy Row

The U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh and European officials are urging the military-backed caretaker government to lift a state of emergency and restore political and civil rights before the scheduled Dec. 18 elections.

October 16, 2008

Embassy Row

John A. Simon, the U.S. ambassador to the African Union, has seen the satellite photos of Africa at night, when the darkness that covers most of the continent underscores the challenges to preparing the region for its potential as a global market.

October 15, 2008

Embassy Row

The chairman of the budget committee of the German parliament is confident that capitalism will survive the frantic government interventions in the marketplace, as he prepared to hold committee hearings on the $540 billion financial rescue package that the German government proposed Monday.

October 14, 2008

Embassy Row

AFRICA AT 50: Africa may still be a continent of disease, despair and discord, but enough countries have achieved enough success that Condoleezza Rice is optimistic about its future.

October 9, 2008

Embassy Row

As U.S. ambassador in Czechoslovakia in 1992, Adrian A. Basora watched the former Warsaw Pact nation, which had emerged from the shadows of the Iron Curtain only three years earlier, build a strong democracy and peacefully split into the Czech and Slovak republics in 1993.

October 8, 2008