WASHINGTON — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ongoing “corruption” crackdown has now nabbed a major state oil corporation senior official. PetroChina Company Limited Vice President Bo Qiliang has been removed from his position and detained by authorities, who have prevented him from leaving the country. Bo’s secretary has also been held in the probe. Bo, who headed overseas […]
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s government reacted in anger at President Barack Obama’s decision to release five Taliban detainees from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay into Qatar’s jurisdiction, in exchange for an American soldier who had been held by the Taliban for five years. Afghanistan’s foreign ministry said the U.S. decision was a potential breach of international […]
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel stopped at Bagram Airfield Sunday on his way from Singapore to Brussels to thank U.S. troops for their service in Afghanistan and to share the intense gratification of freeing prisoner of war Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after nearly five years in captivity. Bergdahl went missing from his post in […]
Just hours after announcing the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, President Obama accepted a second resignation, this one from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Carney served as Obama’s press secretary for three and a half year. President Obama interrupted Carney as Carney was beginning his daily news conference today and announced that Carney was […]