The US State Department has added five more Russians to the Magnitsky list which prohibits them from the entering the US as punishment for human rights violations in Russia.
House Speaker John Boehner had said in a statement on Friday that he plans to introduce a proposal to create a select committee dedicated to investigate the Benghazi attacks, of which New York Daily News believed will go through in a Republican-led Congress.
The Obama administration is preparing $1 billion aid package in loan guarantees to the interim Ukrainian government following heightened tensions with Russia, after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops to invade the Crimean peninsula over the weekend.
Kerry underscored that Chinese leaders must put added pressure on their ally North Korea in an effort to end its nuclear weapons program. After meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijings's Great Hall of the People, Kerry also met with China's senior leaders, including Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Protesters in India, still angry about last week's arrest and subsequent strip-search of deputy consul Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud and underpayment of her housekeeper, raided a Domino's Pizza in a Mumbai suburb on Friday
Secretary of State John Kerry has helped to engineer an interim deal with Iran, and has been called "the most significant level of cooperation between the U.S. and [their counterparts] in decades and it could impact the remainder of his tenure."
The P5+1 world powers and Iran struck a historic interim deal concerning Tehran's nuclear program early Sunday morning , Russia Today reported. Under the interim agreement, Tehran "will be allowed access to $4.2 billion in funds frozen " as part of financial sanctions imposed on Iran over suspicions that its nuclear program is aimed at producing an atom bomb,"
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that significant differences remain between six world powers and Iran before his meeting with the Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva, Switzerland. The P5+1 Talks in Geneva intend to devise a potential nuclear agreement with Iran, which would alleviate its sanctions leveled against it,
The trial involving ousted President Mohammed Morsi began Monday in "a charged atmosphere," Russia Today reported."Down with military rule," his fellow Muslim Brotherhood members chanted, according to reports.Morsi, who had not been in public since June 3, has been charged for the incitement of killing protesters " "who massed outside the presidential palace in December 2012 and demanded that he call off a referendum on a new Islamist-drafted constitution."
The United States released more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan, news reports said. The relations between the two countries grew strained after Navy Seals led a covert raid killing Osama bin Laden in the military town of Abbottabad in May, 2011
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has led the American delegation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Bali and the East Asia Summit, which began over the weekend. Kerry was in Tokyo for security talks, and learned early last week that he would be also be visiting Malaysia and the Philippines. He has subbed in for President Barack Obama, as the White House canceled the president's planned four-nation Asian tour, in order to help deal with government shutdown in Washington
While in New York for the General Assembly, Secretary of State John Kerry signed a U.N. treaty on arms regulation, in a move that some lawmakers vowed to not ratify in the Senate
The United States and Russia struck a compromise on Saturday, which allows the Syrian government its stockpile of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by next year.
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.
The United Nations rights panel presented detailed evidence that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by both Bashar al-Assad's forces, but also to a lesser extent, by the opposition.
Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is testifying on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday to argue the Obama administration's case for using military force in Syria
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that unclassified U.S. intelligence revealed that the Bashar al-Assad Syrian government is responsible for the chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, laying out concrete evidence in an effort to support a potential military strike in the coming days,
Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, commenting five days after a reported attack killed hundreds near Damascus, the Associated Press reported. While both sides of the conflict accuse the other of carrying out the attack, a senior U.S. official said over the week that signs point to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government
Middle East peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians will officially resume in the next two weeks, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday at the State Department with negotiators from both sides.
