Ex-Kosovo president tells international judges he's innocent
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci has insisted he is an innocent man as he addressed a panel of international judges hearing his trial on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Madeleine Albright honored by Biden, other world leaders
World leaders and the U.S. political and foreign policy elite joyously remembered America's first female secretary of state as mourners paid their respects to the late Madeleine Albright.
Albright acted as model, mentor for generations of women
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albrightโs death from cancer this week sparked American women to reflect on the 84-year-old diplomatโs sweeping influence on their lives, 25 years after Bill Clinton made her the United Statesโ representative to the world.
Memories of Albright: A legacy of bluntness and conviction
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is being remembered as a woman of conviction and determination who liked to say she told things like they were and not the way she might like them to be.
Gov. Youngkin issues flag order to honor Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state
The U.S. and Virginia flags will be flown at half-staff over the state Capitol and all local, state and federal buildings this weekend to honor the life of Madeleine Albright.
'She became our voice': Albright hailed by world leaders
As she pressed the Clinton administration into action against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over war crimes in the Balkans, Madeleine Albright would harken back to her own childhood as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis in war-torn Europe.
Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family says
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as US secretary of state, has died of cancer, according to her family. She was 84.
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Colin Powell: A trailblazing legacy, blotted by Iraq war
A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.
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Biden fills out State Department team with Obama veterans
Biden will nominate Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state and Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs โ the second- and third-highest ranking posts, respectively. They were among the 11 officials announced to serve under the incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken. America is back.โAmong the others are:โlongtime Biden Senate aide Brian McKeon, to be deputy secretary of state for management. โDerek Chollet, a familiar Democratic foreign policy hand, to be State Department counselor. Price and Porter intend to return to the practice of holding daily State Department press briefings, officials said.
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Watchdog clears Pompeo's wife of travel ethics charges
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, left, gives flowers to Susan Pompeo as she and her husband, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, arrive at Tbilisi International Airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)WASHINGTON โ An independent probe into the travel of Secretary of State Mike Pompeoโs wife has concluded that the trips with her husband on official business did not violate federal ethics rules. The IG report was released just hours after the State Department took aim at the watchdog, Democratic members of Congress and media outlets for raising questions about Susan Pompeoโs travel and suggesting it may have been inappropriate. Susan Pompeo had attracted criticism for using government resources while accompanying her husband on diplomatic trips. The inspector general reacted icily to Brechbuhl's comment, saying it did not accurately reflect the role and work of an independent watchdog.
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Biden's choice for UN envoy signals return to US engagement
Thomas-Greenfield joined the State Department more than three decades ago, when Black women were even more of a rarity in the U.S. diplomatic corps than they are today. That makes her the most experienced diplomat of the six people named by Biden for top national security positions on Monday. Her tenure at the State Department rivals that of previous U.N. ambassadors like Richard Holbrooke, John Negroponte and Thomas Pickering, all of them white men. Other than secretary of state, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is often the most high-profile foreign policy portfolio in a presidential administration. Thomas-Greenfield's immediate predecessors โ all women โ highlight that dichotomy: Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and Kelly Craft.
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Sothebyโs offers benefit auction with Sting, Hillary Clinton
The chance to record a song with Sting is one of the offerings in an online auction presented by famed auction house Sothebys using Google Meet video calls. The event will be held May 1-8 and will benefit the International Rescue Committee's efforts to combat COVID-19. Those are just some of the offerings in an online auction presented by famed auction house Sothebyโs using Google Meet video calls. The auctions will be held May 1-8 and will benefit the International Rescue Committee's efforts to combat COVID-19. โWe are proud to contribute to pandemic relief at this extraordinary time," said Charles F. Stewart, CEO of Sothebyโs.