While realizing that criticism of someone’s approach to a negotiation needs to be done with some diffidence if the critic does not have direct access to either the negotiating room or either side’s planning sessions, the United States and its P5+1 partners do seem to be persisting in some major errors in how they are approaching the nuclear negotiations with Iran.

LONDON - Foreign ministers from the G8 group of rich countries failed to patch up deep divisions over Syria on Thursday according to a report from Reuters. 

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday asked Congress to approve some 52 billion dollars in foreign aid and international spending in 2014, slightly higher than the current year’s budget which was cut due to the partisan impasse over how to reduce the yawning federal deficit.

BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI) — Computer passwords may soon be a thing of the past, replaced by "passthoughts" that users only have to think to have applied, U.S. researchers say.

WASHINGTON — Al-Jazeera America said Friday it has hired CNN business correspondent Ali Velshi, as the broadcaster gears up for its launch in the US market later this year.

WASHINGTON  (IPS) — Costs to U.S. taxpayers of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will run between four and six trillion dollars, making them the most expensive conflicts in U.S. history, according to a new report by a prominent Harvard University researcher.