Tag Archives : Hillary Clinton

The much awaited U.S.S New York, the newest of the U.S Navy warships was commissioned on Saturday with U.S Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton present at its side during the inception ceremony. The New York has been built with more than 7.5 tons of steel that was salvaged from the remains of the World Trade Center, that was demolished by audacious and [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is touted to be a ‘vast, mineral rich and war torn country.’ Some experts do not buy the image. One thing is certain, though. The country is a failure, especially in its attempts at conflict reconstruction. For starters, Congo seems to have the world’s largest franchise of human rights abuses that include [...]

The terror attacks in Pakistan seem to be getting bolder and increasingly violent. Today, as U.S Secretary Of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton continued her official tour to Pakistan, a car bomb went off in one of the busiest markets in the city of Peshawar, killing 91 people and injuring 200 more. Today’s attack is considered to be the most devastating [...]

According to a very new law enacted in Afghanistan, it is legal to starve a wife who refuses sex. This is already a watered down version of the original bill that stipulates for a wife to have sex with her husband four days in a week. This law was signed just as Hamid Karzai was gunning for reelection. In Afghanistan, marital rape is legal. In Congo, [...]

More than half a century ago, the United States of America ‘helped rebuild a war-torn Europe’ through its Marshall Plan. Will Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Africa signal the semblance of another Marshall Plan, this time for Africa? It might do Africa a world of good since the continent has been subsisting on foreign aid over the past four [...]

During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is violence against [...]

In the month of June this year, tho U.S female journalists were arrested by North Korean authorities for illegal border crossing and were convicted of “grave crimes” by Pyongyang. They had been handed a 12 years sentence in one of the most secured prison in North Korea. In the light of this matter, the former President of the United States, Bill [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is worried about the possible link between nuclear North Korea and military-ruled Myanmar. Her primordial concern about any such ties has something to do with the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction. North Korea has shown to be one country that is fully armed. There is also the possibility [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon present a plan to allow the partners of homosexuals deployed on United States diplomatic missions to receive financial and other benefits. Until now, these benefits are accorded and reserved only for the spouses of married diplomats. The many benefits planned to cover even partners in gay relationships [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced during a visit to Mexico that a joint US-Mexico office shall be established as a coordinating group for all combined and collective action against drug trafficking that has been affecting both countries. In a press conference with his Mexican counterpart, Patricia Espinosa, Clinton also announced that [...]