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What's at Stake in US-China Summit? Pretty Much Everything

Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao have a lot to talk about. The Chinese leader arrives in the United States for a state visit at a time when Washington and Beijing are partners, adversaries or both on nearly every substantial international issue -- from Iranian and North Korean nuclear ambitions to disputes over...

Beleaguered Kosovo Cheers Hillary Clinton

PRISTINA, Kosovo (Oct. 13) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was welcomed today in Kosovo with a rapturous greeting very different from the cooler response she received in ethnically divided Bosnia and largely anti-American Serbia, the two other stops on her Balkan tour. Thousands of cheering Kosovo...

Opinion: Why Taliban Talks Would Be a Good Thing

(Oct. 6) -- A report Wednesday in The Washington Post that negotiations have resumed between the Afghan government and the Taliban is good news for a war-weary United States. With the U.S. surge nearly complete, American forces are inflicting heavy casualties but hardly winning hearts and minds. Afghans know that the...

10 Years On, Milosevic Still Haunts Balkans

BELGRADE, Serbia (Oct. 4) -- As Serbia marks the 10th anniversary of the overthrow of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic and the voters of neighboring Bosnia cast their ballots along ethnic divisions he exploited and deepened, neither country has fully come to terms with his murderous legacy. Pedja Mitic, AP The legacy...

Blackwater Remnant Gets Piece of State Dept. Contract

(Oct. 1) -- It was a taste for indiscriminate force that got the private security firm Blackwater into deep trouble with the U.S. and Iraqi governments, especially after its guards killed 17 civilians in a Baghdad square in 2007. But according to a report in Wired, the firm also has the subtle guile necessary to worm its...