Peace
Kashmir peace is long climb, shadows Obama trip to India
October 29, 2010Kashmir is the last major question to be resolved stemming from India's British colonial past, the freedom struggle and the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.
Read moreDon’t let Party of No stop new START treaty!
October 15, 2010After years out of the headlines - and out of most people's minds - this year nuclear weapons policy and the path to complete abolition has come to the fore again.
Read moreChina angry at Nobel Prize award
October 13, 2010China reacted angrily after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Liu Xiaobo this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The Liu Xiaobo is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "agitation aimed at subverting the government."
Read moreAt UN, Obama highlights break with Bush policies
September 23, 2010Obama's boldest statements came in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, when he dismissed "cynics" who say a just peace is impossible.
Read moreSenate committee OKs New START treaty
September 17, 2010In an unusual show of bipartisan backing for an Obama administration initiative, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the New START nuclear weapons reduction treaty September 16 by a vote of 14-4.
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