While in London, Secretary of State John Kerry called on Syria's Bashar al-Assad to hand over his arsenal of chemical weapons by the end of the week to avoid a military confrontation with the U.S., Russia agreed and pushed for Syria to do the same even while opposition is growing in the U.S. for strikes […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is disappointed by U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to cancel a bilateral meeting in Moscow this week after Russia granted temporary asylum to U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
President Obama met with congressional leaders at the White House today in a successful effort to convince them that a reprisal strike on Syria is necessary to punish the regime for their use of chemical weapons on their own population. Both Republican and Democrat leaders in the House expressed their support for the president. Meanwhile […]
The Japanese government has decided to take the lead in the Fukushima clean-up efforts after reports of additional leaks in the tanks holding the contaminated water that resulted from the earthquake and tsunami disaster that severely crippled to nuclear reactors in the northeast part of the country in 2011.