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Al-Shabab Puts Bounty on Obama's Head: 10 Camels

But only 10 chickens and 10 roosters for Hillary Clinton

(Newser) - The US placed bounties on the heads of several top al-Shabab commanders last week, and the Somali militants were so impressed that they're now copying the tactic. Of course, their payouts aren't quite as impressive as the $3 million to $7 million the US is offering. "Whoever...

UN Monitors Shot At Trying to Probe Syria Massacre

Clinton, Cameron condemn killings

(Newser) - UN monitors came under small arms fire today while trying to reach the site of Syria's latest alleged massacre, Ban Ki-moon told the UN General Assembly today. Ban said he'd heard the news only "a few minutes ago," according to CNN, and denounced Bashar al-Assad as...

Syria Kicks Out Diplomats
 Syria Kicks Out Diplomats 
Jun 5, 2012 7:48 AM CDT

Syria Kicks Out Diplomats

As Putin heads to China to discuss their partnership with Assad

(Newser) - Syria kicked out diplomats from 11 countries today, in response to those same 11 countries booting Syrian ambassadors in the wake of the Houla massacre. The ousted countries include the US, Britain, France, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Canada, CNN reports, though the US ambassador had already...

Pelosi: Hillary Is 'Our Shot' in 2016

Congresswoman also has Obama's back, defends health care reform

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi sat down with the San Francisco Chronicle to talk Obamacare, dismiss rumors that she's "done" with politics, and drop a very big quote about Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016: "Why wouldn't she run?" Pelosi said. "She's a magnificent secretary of...

Clinton Calls Out Russia on Syria

'Their policy is going to help contribute to a civil war'

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton didn't mince words today when it came to Russia's persistent backing of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. The Russians "keep telling me they don't want to see a civil war," Clinton told youth leaders in Denmark today, according to Voice of America...

Clinton: We Hacked Yemeni al-Qaeda Sites

Terror boasts were replaced with info on civilian deaths

(Newser) - Al-Qaeda has issued a call for "electronic jihad," but it looks like the terror group has been outgunned by State Department experts. Hillary Clinton, speaking at the Special Operations Command gala dinner last night, said that American specialists had hacked into al-Qaeda sites in Yemen that "bragged...

Report: Obama Snubs Zardari as Relations Unravel

Pakistan refuses to open supply lines to Afghanistan until US apologizes

(Newser) - President Obama has said that Pakistan is the key to the future of Afghanistan and the region—just as US-Pakistan relations appear to be deteriorating. Obama is now refusing to meet with President Asif Ali Zardari at the NATO summit in Chicago, reports the Guardian . For Obama, the most important...

Dissing Hillary&#39;s No-Makeup Look? &#39;You&#39;re an Idiot&#39;
Dissing Hillary's No-Makeup Look? 'You're an Idiot'
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
May 13, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

Dissing Hillary's No-Makeup Look? 'You're an Idiot'

Her looks have absolutely no relevance: Erin Gloria Ryan

(Newser) - The world was aflutter this week over pictures of Hillary Clinton sans makeup, with Matt Drudge and Fox News acting particularly smug about the whole thing. “I guess we're all supposed to gasp and feel faint, to acknowledge that yes, Hillary Clinton is a real live human with...

Bill Wants Hillary to Take On 'Amateur' Obama: Book

Clintons denounce author Edward Klein as a 'known liar'

(Newser) - Bill Clinton considers Barack Obama such an "incompetent" president that he begged Hillary last summer to quit the State Department and run against him in 2012—or at least, that's the story a new, unauthorized Obama biography is telling. "Barack Obama is an amateur," Clinton is...

Joe Biden's Gay Marriage Motive: the 2016 Election

'Meet the Press' interview did touch on presidential run

(Newser) - Joe Biden's support for gay marriage may not have been a political "trial balloon" or a typically Bidenesque case of loose lips. "No one knows quite what to make of Joe Biden’s apparent endorsement of same-sex marriage on Sunday," writes Steve Kornacki at Salon . But...

Chen: China&#39;s Promises &#39;Just Empty Words&#39;
Chen: China's Promises
'Just Empty Words'
Interview
May 7, 2012 12:46 PM CDT

Chen: China's Promises 'Just Empty Words'

Dissident recounts abuses he suffered under house arrest

(Newser) - Chen Guangcheng says he's being treated well enough at the hospital where he's recuperating , but that he doesn't trust the Chinese government to continue being so kind. In an interview with der Spiegel —which the paper says was plagued by a connection that cut out multiple...

Clinton to India: Back Off the Iran Oil

Secretary on 3-day visit seeking more support for oil sanctions

(Newser) - Hoping to wean India from Iranian oil imports, Hillary Clinton is urging Indian leaders to explore alternative suppliers as she opens a three-day visit to the energy-starved South Asian giant. Clinton arrived in the eastern city of Kolkata today as officials traveling with her said the Iranian oil imports would...

Clinton to N. Korea: Change, and We'll Work With You

Calls on China for help against Syria, Sudan

(Newser) - It's not too late for North Korea's new leadership to mend its ways, Hillary Clinton says. "If they focus on honoring their commitments and rejoining the international community, and on feeding and educating their citizens, the United States will welcome them and work with them," the...

Bill Clinton: Hillary Didn't Tell Me About bin Laden

White House did, he reveals to Ellen DeGeneres

(Newser) - So much for spousal privilege. On the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, Hillary Clinton yesterday revealed that her husband had no idea the raid was going on. Today on the Ellen DeGeneres Show the former president himself backs that up in a discussion about how he found...

Obama on bin Laden: No High-Fives, but &#39;Satisfaction&#39;
Obama on bin Laden Death:
I Didn't Do a High-Five
ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEWS
May 2, 2012 10:15 AM CDT

Obama on bin Laden Death: I Didn't Do a High-Five

Obama gives detailed interview about the terrorist leader's demise

(Newser) - It's the first anniversary of the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and MSNBC today released a series of interviews Brian Williams conducted with President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other top-ranking officials detailing their preparation for and reaction to the raid. "Ultimately, it was a 50/50 proposition...

Hillary Clinton to Jason Segel: Maybe I'll Work With You...

But only if Muppets are involved

(Newser) - Jason Segel has made no secret of his love for Hillary Clinton, telling Us earlier this year that he wants to co-star with her ("I just feel like she would be good at comedy") and, he admitted to Jimmy Fallon last week, often joking with How I Met ...

Blind Chinese Dissident Escapes to US Embassy

Chen Guangcheng had been under house arrest for opposing Chinese policies

(Newser) - A famed blind Chinese dissident has managed to escape his house arrest and post a video detailing the abuses he's suffered and calling on Premier Wen Jiabao to protect his family. Chen Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer, has long been in custody for opposing China's forced abortion and sterilization...

US Yanks Almost Half of Okinawa Marines

Because Japan doesn't want them there

(Newser) - The US military has worn out its welcome in Japan, so the two countries today announced an agreement to pull about 9,000 Marines from the Okinawa base, redeploying them in other places in the Asia-Pacific region, like Hawaii and the US territory of Guam. Japan has grown increasingly restless...

'Badass' Hillary Clinton Surfaces in Colombia

Hillary lets down her hair

(Newser) - While President Obama had his hands full with the Secret Service prostitute scandal in Colombia, Hillary Clinton was partying at a trendy cafe in Cartagena. It was badass turn No. 2 for Clinton, who's undergoing a reputation refurbishment as a take-no-guff secretary of state thanks to the Texts from...

&#39;Texts From Hillary&#39; Hails Rebirth of a Badass

 'Texts From Hillary' 
 Hails Rebirth 
 of a Badass 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Apr 15, 2012 10:59 AM CDT

'Texts From Hillary' Hails Rebirth of a Badass

Secretary of State looks cool, gets respect in viral phenomenon

(Newser) - The latest meme to take the Internet by storm also might just indicate a Clinton renaissance: Texts From Hillary features imagined conversations between Clinton and pretty much anyone—other politicians, Sarah Palin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jay-Z—using a photo of Clinton taken last fall on a flight to Tripoli, in which...

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