During a speech at the US-Ukraine Partnership Forum in Washington on Thursday, Victoria Nuland, the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said that the American authorities are in discussions about using the Russian central bank assets frozen by the West to rebuild Ukraine after the conflict between Kiev and Moscow ends. The reconstruction program aims not only to rebuild Ukraine’s... 

Accused: Powell brushed off Cheney's claims that he tried to undercut President Bush's policies in Iraq. An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’ Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney, ‘Was president for all... 

A scandal similar to one where the former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a defendant broke out in France. Only this time the accused is the former Secretary of State Georges Tron who is believed to be close to President Nicolas Sarkozy. This story began unfolding in May. Georges Tron was reminded of the sins that he might have committed in the period from 1994 to... 

According to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, the Justice Department is currently in the process of deciding whether or not to file suit over Arizona’s controversial immigration law, which Mr. Obama has called “misguided” and potentially discriminatory. According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, however, the decision has already been made. “President...