US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to testify before Congress on the attack on their consulate in Benghazi, Libya which left its ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead on September 11, 2012. She is also expected to appear before the House foreign affairs committee on January 23. ...
07:30 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Al Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the US ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country. ...
03:59 AM, Dec 31, 2012
An amateur video, showing a few Libyans trying to save US Ambassador Chris Stevens, after the embassy in Benghazi came under attack over the movie, has surfaced. ...
12:48 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Benghazi: The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the US ambassador, was an organised two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and US security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday. Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, said the attacks Tuesday night were suspected...
06:19 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Washington: The US has launched a massive probe, involving several agencies including the FBI, to find out who was behind the attack on its Consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya. State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland said on Thursday that investigation had begun and till then it would be better to refrain from speculating any possible involvement of al Qaeda or its affiliated...
01:43 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Washington: The attack that killed the US ambassador and three other American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, may have been planned and organised in advance, US government officials said on Wednesday. The officials said there were indications that members of a militant faction calling itself Ansar al Sharia - which translates as Supporters of Islamic Law - may have been involved in organizing the attack on the US Consulate in Libya's...
06:13 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Beirut: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the killing of American Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other embassy staff in a rocket attack in Benghazi in Libya. Confirming that the envoy was killed in the attack in Libya, Obama said, "US opposes senseless violence that killed that US diplomat." Reacting to the killing of the envoy, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the attack "should shock the conscience...
05:57 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Beirut: The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday night that targeted his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a Libyan official said on Wednesday. "The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters. Asked about the deaths, a US Embassy employee in Tripoli...
03:14 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama has nominated two veteran diplomats to be the US ambassadors to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Almost two month after the incumbents resigned, Obama nominated James B Cunningham as the new US Ambassador to Afghanistan; and Richard G Olson as the new envoy to Pakistan. However, both need to be confirmed by the United States Senate before they can be sworn in for their new Ambassadorial postings....
08:37 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Lahore: LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has served legal notices on two Pakistani journalists for allegedly concocting a report about his secret meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter, seeking Rs 10 crore as damages. The notices were served on columnist Nazir Naji and reporter Amir Mir by Saeed's lawyer AK Dogar. The notices contended that Naji's column in the Urdu daily Jang on May 9 and Mir's report in the...
01:14 PM, May 16, 2012
Washington: Nancy J Powell, a career diplomat with wide experience in South Asia, has been named by US President Barack Obama as the next ambassador to India, the first woman to be nominated for the coveted post. 64-year-old Powell would replace Timothy J Roemer, who resigned from his post in April 2011 following a two-year stint as US envoy to India, after going through a confirmation process by the Senate....
09:09 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Islamabad: In a surprise choice, Sherry Rehman, a senior politician who earned the wrath of militants for her opposition to Pakistan's harsh blasphemy law, was on Wednesday named to the key post of the country's Ambassador to the United States. 50-year-old Rehman will succeed Husain Haqqani who was forced out of office on Tuesday following his suspected involvement in a memo handed over to the US, seeking support for President...
03:38 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has been appointed as the next Ambassador to the United States, an assignment she will take up after superannuation next month-end. Sources said Rao's appointment to succeed Meera Shankar as the US Ambassador has been cleared by the government and a formal announcement is expected soon. The 1973-batch IFS officer assumed the office of the Foreign Secretary on August one, 2009, becoming the second...
07:32 PM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: "You come to India as a tourist, you leave as a member of the family." This is how outgoing US Ambassador Timothy Roemer described his nearly two-year stay here at a farewell reception hosted in his honour. Showering praise on India and its culture, Roemer observed "India gets into your stomach for its great food, gets into your brain for great poetry of Rabindranath Tagore it will never...
10:28 PM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: US Ambassador Timothy Roemer on Thursday announced his resignation from the key diplomatic post citing personal commitments. 54-year-old Roemer, a political appointee, said he has accomplished all of the strategic objectives set two years ago and he wants to go back home to look after his family. Roemer, who was nominated by US President Barack Obama in May 2009, is expected to leave by June. "Ambassador Roemer's departure...
09:52 AM, Apr 28, 2011
Washington: Yet another Indian American has become President Barack Obama's preferred choice for a government posting. Obama named Geeta Pasi, a career senior foreign service official, as US ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. Pasi, who once served as Political Military Officer at the US embassy in New Delhi, currently serves as the Director of East African Affairs in the Africa Bureau at the Department...
09:56 AM, Apr 06, 2011
New Delhi: The US on Friday paid rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, saying Americans owe an "unfathomable debt" of gratitude to him for "being the change he wanted to see in the world". On the eve of the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer said the shining beacon of Gandhiji's example has never been more relevant. "The light it offers the world has never been more...
11:15 PM, Oct 01, 2010
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Foreign Policy magazine. ...
09:08 PM, Apr 17, 2009
He is currently the President of CNP, a Washington-based think tank. ...
03:26 PM, Apr 17, 2009
The attack was the 3rd suspected US strike on Pakistani soil of late. ...
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