Washington has eased onerous reporting requirements on overseas financial institutions, which it had sought to impose as part of a tax evasion crackdown

Washington has agreed to move thousands of US marines off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa despite lack of progress on a controversial base relocation

This is how a pragmatist understands US foreign policy in conjunction with the Iranian nuclear weapons crisis! Yesterday morning I wrote a short commentary on the Obama administration's lack of understanding about Iran and that country's quest to obtain nuclear weapons. The writing was in response to reports of new sanctions being placed on Iran by Washington that were ostensibly designe...

So the US sends a flotilla for threat display duty off Iran in January, saying that it could handle this particular bit of business perfectly well on its own. But then: British ministers initially signalled they would accept the Washington’s...

There a brand spanking new poll out today by the Washington Post and ABC News supposedly showing President Obama topping GOP front runner Mitt Romney nationally. It claims that 55% of the respondents dislike what they're hearing from the GOP candidates in general, that 57% approved of what they heard from President Obama's State of the Union address and that he tops Romney in a general e...

Will they or won’t they? Most political parlour games involve a question of this kind and the one about whether Israel will strike Iran – played out regularly in Washington, London and Paris – is no exception. The last couple of days have seen more sabre-rattling than before. Israeli Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon, who heads the Strategic Affairs Ministry, and is a former commander of...

David Cameron and his wife will develop their "strong personal bond" with US President Barack Obama and the First Lady during a visit to Washington next month.

Protesters at two Occupy DC encampments in downtown Washington are facing eviction, with park police saying they will enforce a no-camping rule and arrest those who do not comply

Today's Washington Post provides a superb example of why the majority of the dinosaur media is not to be trusted when it comes to reporting about Islamists or about jihad activity, particularly in the United States. Yonathan Melaku, an ex-marine reservist and a naturalized citizen from Ethiopia pled guilty today in a plea bargain to three counts, including shooting at the Pentagon on Oct. 19,...

When Fred Bergsten founded the Institute for International Economics in Washington, Ronald Reagan had just entered the White House and Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union