US lawmakers weren't sitting at the table with Iran during the nuclear negotiations in Switzerland. But they were certainly the elephant in the room./ Now, with a new bill poised to pass that would give Capitol Hill a say on a future nuclear deal, the Republican-controlled Congress will have ...
Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act undermines the president./ Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, on April 2./ Congress should play an appropriate oversight role over a nuclear deal with ...
Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee./ Any deal on Iran’s nuclear program would affect generations to come, which is why it was troubling to watch President Obama and his deputies try to shut out the public and Congress from having a say ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A compromise allowing the U.S. Congress to vote on a nuclear deal with Tehran may prompt Iranian negotiators to drive a harder bargain, but does not drastically weaken President Barack Obama's ability to deliver on a final agreement. For months Obama resisted attempts led ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is in talks to reach a final nuclear agreement with six world powers, not with U.S. lawmakers. Rouhani's remarks on Wednesday were an apparent reaction to developments Tuesday in Washington, where President Barack Obama pledged to sign a bill that would ...
- The negotiated efforts by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to unanimously pass a bill to provide congressional oversight of the Iran nuclear deal was hailed on Tuesday as a . But the bill still has several hurdles to clear before becoming law. The 19-0 vote in favor of the ...
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), center, speaks with the committee's ranking member Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) on April 14. A compromise between Congress and President Obama on Iran marks a rare moment of cooperation. (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press)/ Why the ...
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran is negotiating only with the six world powers to finalize a nuclear deal, not with U.S. Congress. Photo: AP
Comments from president signal fresh obstacles to an agreement on disputed nuclear program/ Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday accused the U.S. Congress of meddling in sensitive negotiations over the fate of the country’s disputed nuclear program, signaling potential new obstacles in ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Bakytzhan Sagintayev in Moscow/ MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies ...
A giant anaconda has been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by a gunshot wound, according to a Dutch researcher who studies snakes and recently helped discover a giant anaconda that was a contender for the largest snake in the world. The snake found dead is not the same as the ...
U.S. President Biden hosts a Juneteenth concert at the White House in Washington/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The woman who admitted to stealing President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary and helping sell it to conservative activists could face arrest as soon as Friday after skipping her sentencing, ...
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Amit Soussana has become the first Israeli woman to speak publicly about enduring what she says was a sexual assault and other forms of violence during her 55 days in captivity following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, according to reporting by The New York Times on Tuesday. ...
run government media office says 18 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect desperately-needed aid that was airdropped over northern Gaza. Twelve people drowned when they went into the sea to retrieve food packages, according to a statement. The other six were trampled to death in ...
Ecuador’s youngest mayor and her press officer were found Sunday shot to death in a vehicle amid an ongoing state of emergency, police said. , the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente and member of the left-wing Citizen Revolution Party, was found alongside her advisor, Jairo Loor, in the vehicle, ...
and why so many women are getting randomly punched in the face while just walking down the street? on Monday, you may have come across a video of a woman telling her story about being punched in the face as she walked down the street. And then scrolling further, you may have come across another. ...
A United Nations human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza./ Francesca Albanese will present her report on Tuesday to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva./ But it has already been dismissed by Israel, whose ambassador described it as "an outrageous ...
Israel accuses Hamas of 'delusional' ceasefire demands/ Israel has accused Hamas of proposing "delusional" demands in ongoing negotiations over a ceasefire in Gaza. The office for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas had rejected any compromise on its demands. “Israel will not ...