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...lites by their peaked karakul caps. They were outdone only by the portraits of Afghanistan's former rulers that lined the walls of the reception hall - some of those wore helmets. The first few rows were occupied by suited foreign dignitaries, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, special envoy Richard Holbrooke, the Aga Khan and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, rounding out the guest list. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karzai Sworn In: Now, on to the Next Afghan Crisis | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...policy priorities in the Middle East, Washington was naturally distracted from courting other parts of the globe. Nonetheless Southeast Asian ministers couldn't help but spot a deliberate snub when then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice skipped two ASEAN summits that historically had been attended by a U.S. envoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Southeast Asia: Mending Fences in a Key Region | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...White House invited Amjadi, along with Save Darfur’s Executive Director Jerry Fowler, to meet Tuesday afternoon with Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration and Samantha Power, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs...

Author: By Julia L Ryan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Meets With Top Policy Officials | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

Suddenly the Obama Administration seemed wobbly on the Middle East; clearly, Clinton had been too bullish on Netanyahu's proposal (which had been negotiated over months with Middle East envoy George Mitchell and was seen, privately, by the Americans as real progress). But the Administration's mission was to get the parties into peace talks without preconditions. The Israelis were now in favor of talks. The Palestinians were setting preconditions. And Clinton had violated an essential rule of her job: boring is almost always better.(See pictures of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of Hillary: A Mixed Record on the Job | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...responded "No" to the question of whether religion was important to them. The 82-year-old Benedict has made it a centerpiece of his papacy to reverse the decline of Christianity on the Continent, where the faith originated. Last month, he used a Vatican meeting with the new E.U. envoy to the Holy See to recall the church's lingering bitterness over the failure of the European Parliament to include a reference to the "Christian roots" of Europe in the E.U. constitution a few years back. In 2004, a committee of the same parliament was also responsible for torpedoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Crucifixes Be Banned in Italian Schools? | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

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