Madeleine Albright

We got conned again

If the change that President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America's wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama's choice of foreign and economic...

G-20 Meeting in Washington: The Good Intentions Summit

In the end, delegates at the financial summit of industrial and emerging economies delivered a closing statement without any concrete decisions. Host Bush has nothing left to say, and the world eagerly awaits his successor...

N.Korea Has Nothing to Gain from Stalling

President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday met staff at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., a Democrat-leaning think tank, and told them it was important to convince North Korea through close cooperation between South Korea...

Obama gives up his Senate seat

US President-elect Barack Obama resigned his seat in the Senate yesterday to focus on his transition to the White House, appointing new staff and thanking his home state of Illinois for launching his political career.

Lee Meets Key Figures in Obama Camp

President Lee Myung-bak met with the U.S. delegation to the G20 financial summit in Washington on Friday afternoon. U.S. president-elect Barack Obama sent former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Jim Leach, former...

Bank "supervisors" proposed at G20 summit

The summit was the first time the G20 group had gathered at the level of heads of state (Keystone) World leaders have laid the foundation for reforms to the international financial system at the G20 summit in the United States....

World › Financial overhaul added to Obama's to-do list

Monday 17th November, 07:02 AM JST WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is not president yet, but he has already been charged with yet another challenge after taking office: helping oversee the overhaul of the world’s financial regulatory...

Absent Obama looms large in D.C.

At summit, auto bailout talks, president elect looms large in discussions Obama is staying away, ensconced in Chicago, unwilling to make any public show of political influence before he is sworn in to office Jan. 20....

G20 leaders head home with plan to fight mutual foe: the economic meltdown

WASHINGTON - The emergency G20 summit this past weekend brought together leaders from nations that have spent centuries as far apart politically and philosophically as they are geographically. Yet ...

World leaders agree action plan at crisis summit

WASHINGTON (AFP) - World leaders at a financial crisis summit in Washington have agreed on an action plan to restore global growth and prevent future financial upheaval while promising new spending plans, a trade deal and a set...

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