Hours of private testimony by two of the top State Department officials who oversaw the evacuation from Afghanistan lays bare some of the missteps at the heart of the 2021 operation.
On behalf of the United States of America, I wish everyone in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic a happy, healthy, and prosperous Lao New Year. As you celebrate this special holiday, the United States looks forward to advancing our comprehensive partnership and working closely with Laos in support of its ASEAN chair year. There is
Because Netanyahu relies on the radical right for his coalition, he has squandered every opportunity to demonstrate that this was a war against Hamas rather than against the Palestinian people.
TYNGSBORO — State revenue collections for March were slightly more than $4 billion, $182 million above March 2023, State Sen. Ed Kennedy (D-Lowell) told town officials recently. However, those who attended the April 9 tri-board meeting had little else to cheer about.
The democratic constitutional state may still function but is under pressure, the Council of State says. “That is why continued attention, strengthening, and further development is needed to keep the rule of law resilient and vital,” the government’s highest advisory body writes in its annual report, published on Thursday. If the fragile relationship of trust between the government and citizens and between citizens themselves does not improve, “dysfunction of the rule of law is lurking,” the...
The following is part of a series about how the State Department age determinations for a special immigrant visa applicant’s son put him in needless peril for six years. In 2018, a U.S. consular officer told special immigrant visa applicant Wali Akrami that he would have to leave his adult son Waheed in Afghanistan if […]
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives last Saturday voted 311 to 112 to approve a bill to spend $60.89 billion on aid for Ukraine. Among House Read More
In a 58-page Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State said that the human rights situation in the Philippines has “no significant changes”.
By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine on Friday and they agreed – after Niger’s demands – that the US would militarily withdraw from the country, according to a State Department official. In the coming days, there will be conversations over
By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine on Friday and they agreed – after Niger’s demands – that the US would militarily withdraw from the country, according to a State Department official. In the coming days, there will be conversations over
By Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine on Friday and they agreed – after Niger’s demands – that the US would militarily withdraw from the country, according to a State Department official. In the coming days, there will be conversations over