Russian pop star, singer Alla Pugacheva (2nd R), actor Leonid Yarmolnik (2nd L) and rock musician Andrey Makarevich (L) attend a press-conference of a presidential candidate, metals tycoon and US basketball team owner, Mikhail Prokhorov (R), in Moscow, on February 20, 2012. Prokhorov...
View Photo »U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. MacCain is scheduled to meet with Egypt's military leader, who took over after Mubarak was ousted last year.
View Photo »U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. MacCain is scheduled to meet with Egypt's military leader, who took over after Mubarak was ousted last year. ...
View Photo »Russian pop star, singer Alla Pugacheva, attends a press-conference of presidential candidate, metals tycoon and US basketball team owner, Mikhail Prokhorov, in Moscow, on February 20, 2012. Prokhorov challenges Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 presidential polls.
View Photo »Journalists attend a press-conference of presidential candidate, Russian metals tycoon and US basketball team owner, Mikhail Prokhorov, in Moscow, on February 20, 2012. Prokhorov challenges Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 presidential polls.
View Photo »FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011 file photo, a new Russian twin-engine jet fighter T-50 flies over Zhukovsky airfield as it takes part in MAKS-2011, the International Aviation and Space Show, in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running to...
View Photo »FILE - In this Thursday, June 17, 2010 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin walks after inspecting a new Russian fighter jet after its test flight in Zhukovksy, outside Moscow, Russia. Putin, who is running to reclaim presidency in March 4 election, laid out his vision of...
View Photo »FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2008 file photo, Russian truck-mounted Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles roll through Moscow's Red Square during the annual Victory Day parade, with the Kremlin, left, and State Historical Museum, right, in the background. Prime Minister Vladimir...
View Photo »Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus February 18, 2012. Photo taken February 18, 2012.
View Photo »Demonstrators drape Syrian national flags over their backs during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Kafranbel near Idlib February 19, 2012.
View Photo »Demonstrators hold a placard as they gather during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Kafranbel near Idlib February 19, 2012. The placard reads, "Occupied Kafranbel".
View Photo »A boy passes by a policeman as ethnic Pa-O men meet UNODC and Myanmar's police representatives in the village of Tar-Pu, in the mountains of Shan State January 27, 2012. Myanmar has dramatically escalated its poppy eradication efforts since September 2011, threatening the livelihoods of...
View Photo »Novice monks play as a policeman secures a Buddhist temple where local villagers meet UNODC representatives and Myanmar police in the village of Kyauk Ka Char, in the mountains of Shan State January 26, 2012. Myanmar has dramatically escalated its poppy eradication efforts since...
View Photo »Children gather in a school in the village of Tar-Pu, in the mountains of Shan State January 27, 2012. Myanmar has dramatically escalated its poppy eradication efforts since September 2011, threatening the livelihoods of impoverished farmers who depend upon opium as a cash crop to buy...
View Photo »Moe Mohm, 48, an ethnic Pa-O widow with six daughters whose poppy field was destroyed, sits in her house in the village of Kyauk Ka Char, in the mountains of Shan State January 26, 2012. Myanmar has dramatically escalated its poppy eradication efforts since September 2011, threatening...
View Photo »Abo, a long time opium addict, sits in a drugs treatment hospital in Keng Tung in mountains of Shan State January 28, 2012. Myanmar has dramatically escalated its poppy eradication efforts since September 2011, threatening the livelihoods of impoverished farmers who depend upon opium as...
View Photo »ATHENS, GREECE - FEBRUARY 19: Stickers featuring the EU flag are for sale amongst Greek flag stickers in a gift shop on February 19, 2012 in Athens, Greece. Following a meeting yesterday, finance ministers across the Eurozone are calling for greater scrutiny and oversight of Greece's...
View Photo »ATHENS, GREECE - FEBRUARY 19: A Greek and an EU flag fly outside the Acropolis Museum on February 19, 2012 in Athens, Greece. Following a meeting on Wednesday, finance ministers across the Eurozone are calling for greater scrutiny and oversight of Greece's proposed budget cuts in order...
View Photo »Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, of Texas, speaks at Williston High School in Williston, N.D. , Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. His appearance was organized by the North Dakota Policy Council.
View Photo »Veterans for Ron Paul members, from left, Aaren Torrence, Kristin Sorich, Adam Sorich, Glenn Couture and Travis Couture cheer as Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas speaks at Williston High School in Williston, N.D. on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum holds a copy of the U.S. Constitution as speaks during a campaign stop at the Christ Redeemer Church, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Cumming, Ga.
View Photo »Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign stop at the Christ Redeemer Church, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Cumming, Georgia.
View Photo »Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, is embraced by his wife, Karen, before speaking at a campaign stop at the Christ Redeemer Church, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Cumming, Ga.
View Photo »A video is projected on a screen as people attend a rally for Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum at the Christ Redeemer Church, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, in Cumming, Georgia.
View Photo »A float with giant figures of former soccer star Zinedine Zidane (top, C), U.S President Barack Obama (C) , Pope Benedict XVI (R) and Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama (L) is paraded during the Nice Carnival in Nice, southeastern France, February 19, 2012. The carnival, which starts...
View Photo »Russian pop star, singer Alla Pugacheva (2nd R), actor Leonid Yarmolnik (2nd L) and rock musician Andrey Makarevich (L) attend a press-conference of a presidential candidate, metals tycoon and US basketball team owner, Mikhail Prokhorov (R), in Moscow, on February 20, 2012. Prokhorov...
View Photo »The very core of what this country stands for is on the line ... The basic promise of no matter who you are, where you come from, this is a place that you can make it if you try. That’s at stake in this election.
If all white men were like the ones on stage in SC GOP debates last night, you wouldn't speak to one white man in the USA!
And it’s not because you thought it was going to be easy ... You know when you support a guy name Barack Hussein Obama for president of the United States, you’ve got to assume that the odds may not be in your favor. But what you understood was the campaign was not about me, it was about our common visio...
This is another nail in the coffin for genetically modified foods in Europe ... This is a good day for consumers and farmers and opens the door for the European Union to shift Europe to greener and more publicly acceptable farming.
I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists ... Moreover, I want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American cit...
His media saturation of the Florida airways is clearly having an impact, and, based on what I have learned, he is staying on message by talking about spending and deficits — two issues GOP voters care about.
When you become president, one thing that happens overnight is that you and everyone you love get a bunch of new nicknames
Romney is the clear favorite, and you’d have to conclude he even has a shot to win 50 percent of the GOP vote, depending on what happens in South Carolina
Dr. King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there.
Alabamians don’t want to be associated with the Democratic Party and Barack Obama
we can't afford to repeat the mistakes that have been made in the past - after World War II, after Vietnam - when our military was left ill-prepared for the future.
The goal of the U.S. and other sanctions against Iran is regime collapse, a senior U.S. intelligence official said, offering the clearest indication yet that the Obama administration is at least as intent on unseating Iran’s government as it is on engaging with it.
In the modern world, stability is an asset which can only be earned by hard work, by showing openness to change and readiness for thought-out, calculated reforms
Obama reversed Bush’s policy of ignoring Osama bin Laden, immediately setting a course that eventually led to his capture and death.
The competition for new jobs, for businesses, for middle-class security -- that's a race I know we can win ... But America is not going to win if we give in to those who think that we can only respond to our challenges with the same tired, old tune ... [and] hope that prosperity somehow trickles down.
The debate that the Republican candidate Rick Perry attended on American Fox TV turned into a scandal that contained very ugly statements about Turkey
We've begun to see what change looks like
Of these, Denmark and Lithuania sent representatives to the New Delhi Sherpa Meeting. The four international Organizations are the UN, IAEA, Interpol and the European Union
Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 miles an hour, walking only a few steps to public transportation and ending up just blocks from your destination
Ambassador Connelly expressed the United States’ deep concern that the Syrian regime continues its violent oppression of the Syrian people, despite the presence of the Arab League monitoring mission
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution. I refuse to take 'no' for an answer
bucking GOP doctrine on issues like global warming ... a steady diet of civility and compromise.
What he really said was all of us can be a drum major for service, all of us can be a drum major for justice ... There is nobody who can't serve, nobody who can't help somebody else.
Applying the scenario of sanctions on Iran's oil exports to EU members would be economic suicide for the member countries
Even the very good intentions cannot justify violation of international laws and state sovereignty
