President Barack Obama, seeking to shape his legacy, said that COP 21 makes the United States, which did not ratify the earlier Kyoto Protocol,... ... time another U.S. president will be campaigning for reelection.
Adding drama to the conversation, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry calls climate change “an existential threat...a matter of life and death." Kerry has assured “poor ...
... good marks for his openness and willingness to dialogue. The image credit is rferl.org Brinkmanship turns into economic warfare Until early this year, diplomatic interactions between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry showed the willingness of presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama to dialogue too. But complications involving anti-Assad Islamists supported by U.S. interests, taking part in the fighting in Syria, and Russian allegations that Chechen and Azeri extremists have been involved with the military components ...
... could erode the goodwill that has been established beteen Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. secretary of state John Kerry that has helped keep the tenuous bi-lateral relationship on an even keel.
The Snowden Affair could become a pivotal ... ... Moscow both seek to maintain their “superpower” status in a multipolar 21st century. In Kiev recently, U.S. president Barack Obama told the people of Ukraine that all men (and women) are created equal. He did not say, however, that in today’s ...
Successful talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry provide an opening for broader discussions. But these measures do not include mediating and checking the ongoing efforts of feuding regional powers Qatar and Saudi Arabia, whose big money and disruptive tactics have joined with western interests ...