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A man runs past the Syrian Embassy May 29, 2012 in Washington, DC. The United States ordered Tuesday the expulsion of Syria's top diplomat in Washington over the weekend massacre in Houla in which more than 90 people were killed, including at least 30 children.'We hold the Syrian government responsible for this slaughter of innocent lives,' State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, informing charge d'affaires Zuheir Jabbour that he had 72 hours to leave the country.
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Pakistan is perhaps the State Department’s most glaring omission, as its government continues both to engage in and to tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious-freedom abuses
She will also meet with Pakistani alumni of US State Department exchange programmes
It is damaging [to Ukraine]. There are many things that can be criticised in Ukraine but not this one. There was a State Department human rights report into Ukraine last year – there was a lot of criticism but they singled out racism, xenophobia and anti-semitism as not being a problem.More quotes »
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Top US negotiator on Iran visiting Israel
-- The United States' top negotiator in Iran nuclear talks is visiting Israel to consult on regional issues, the U.S. State Department said Friday.Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will "reaffirm our unshakeable commitment to Israel's Read more »
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US says human rights deteriorating in China
-- The U.S. State Department says human rights conditions have deteriorated in China and that Vietnam also continues to severely restrict political rights and freedom of expression.The judgments were made in the department's annual assessment of human rights Read more »
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Cuba's first daughter has gone beyond Castro name
both reviled by many Cuban-Americans and enemies of Washington for more than half a century.When word came last week that the State Department had issued an entry visa to Castro -- as well as at least 60 other Cuban scholars -- Cuban-American politicians were Read more »
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Cubans denied US visas have record of engagement
the next to being a security threat.""These are the people we as a country should want to be talking to," Olson added.The State Department does not talk about individual visa cases as a matter of policy, but spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday that 77 Read more »
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'The Dictator' won't play in Tajikistan
Rahmon, a former Soviet apparatchik who came to power during a civil war and has ruled the country since 1992. The U.S. State Department issued a dismal report on Tajikistan in 2010, citing the usual problems: torture of detainees, denial of the right to a Read more »
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Video of shooting by federal agent will remain sealed, judge rules
the release of the videos "raises a real possibility that the defense and/or prosecution will suffer an unfair trial." State Department special agent Christopher Deedy is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man at the McDonald's Kuhio 39 m ago from Star Advertiser Read more »
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Dr. Adam Lankford: Review: 'Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad'
finally get their seat at the table, right next to the most powerful figures from the White House, CIA, Pentagon, and State Department. This superbly researched account of the United States' decade-long effort to track and kill bin Laden provides the intimate 5:14 PM from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Hafiz Mohammad Saeed: The outsourcing of extraordinary rendition?
weeks ago, the United States government placed a $10 million bounty on the head of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed as part of the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program. Saeed is the founder of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Last week, 4:22 PM from Foreign Policy Read more »
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Egypt's 31-Year Emergency Law Ends
the two top presidential candidates slated for June 16-17 is the final phase of the transition to democratic rule. U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner welcomed the end of the emergency law, saying it was a step "in the right direction." "It is something 3:58 PM from ABC News Read more »
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Ambassador Verveer: State Still Working on Broadcast Border Issues
Philip Verveer, the State Department's coordinator for international communications and information policy, suggested the State Department is still trying to resolve spectrum coordination issues with Canada and Mexico related to the planned reclamation of 3:57 PM from Multichannel News Read more »
