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WikiLeaks: Gadhafi Stashed $32 Billion in Cash in Foreign Accounts

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has signed dozens of multibillion-dollar deals over the past decade with foreign firms eager to exploit his country's vast oil and natural gas reserves. So where has all that money gone? Not to ordinary Libyans, around one-third of whom are thought to live in poverty. Instead, Gadhafi and his...

Cynthia Stroum: 5 Facts on the Former Ambassador to Luxembourg Now Under Fire

Gone but not forgotten. The State Department issued a report on Cynthia Stroum, the former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, that found that the diplomat and big time financial donor to President Barack Obama was so abrasive in her job that she drove her employees to seek posts in Afghanistan rather than continue working...

Jon Huntsman Run: 5 Facts About the US Ambassador to China who May Run For President

Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to China, announced Monday that he will resign his post this spring. This could be a sign that the former Utah governor intends to run in the Republican presidential primaries, a rumor that's been circulating for some time. The Obama administration does not seem particularly upset by...

Sargent Shriver Dead at 95: 5 Facts on the Peace Corps' First Director [VIDEOS]

R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, has died at the age of 95. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003. A Navy veteran, Shriver's political career spanned decades. In 1953 he married Eunice Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy. They had five children, including Maria Shriver, wife of...

Ambassador to Libya Outed by WikiLeaks Returns to DC

The American ambassador to Libya who wrote secret cables about Moammar Gadhafi, including one about his reliance on a blond Ukrainian nurse, has been recalled to Washington and, according to one report, may be leaving his post. Ambassador Gene Cretz, a longtime diplomat, was in Washington for consultations, the State...

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