James Morrison
Articles by James Morrison
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Mari Carmen Aponte will be cleaning out her desk and preparing to return to the United States by the end of the month because Senate Republicans - suspicious of her past ties to a suspected Cuban spy and angered by her support for gay issues - stopped her from continuing to serve as the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Published December 13, 2011
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More than 60 members of Congress and a human rights commission named for the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the House are urging President Obama to use his Monday meeting with the prime minister of Iraq to demand he protect Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf. Published December 11, 2011
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Turkish Ambassador Namik Tan said Thursday that his country is pressing the United States for more aid in its fight against separatist Kurdish rebels, who operate along Turkey's mountainous border with northern Iraq. Published December 8, 2011
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The Obama administration is defending the U.S. ambassador to Belgium and ignoring calls from many Jewish-American leaders to denounce the envoy for remarks they see as blaming Israel for anti-Semitism among European Muslims. Published December 6, 2011
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The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, a Jewish lawyer and son of a Holocaust survivor, created a firestorm of controversy over remarks widely seen as blaming Israel for anti-Semitism among Muslims in Europe. Published December 4, 2011
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Two Republican senators are pressing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to guarantee the safety of thousands of Iranian dissidents in Iraq, where the government is planning to evict them from a former military camp by the end of the year and possibly deport them to Iran, where they would be killed as terrorists. Published December 1, 2011
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The U.S. ambassador to El Salvador stirred up ghosts from her past when she wrote a newspaper article praising the president of the Central American nation for supporting the homosexual agenda. Published November 29, 2011
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Pakistan is sending an outspoken politician who supports religious freedom and women's rights as its new ambassador to the United States, replacing an envoy who resigned in a diplomatic scandal that further ripped the already tattered relations between Washington and Islamabad. Published November 27, 2011
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Pakistan's ambassador to the United States resigned Tuesday in a widening scandal over a secret letter to a top U.S. military official, fears of a military coup in Pakistan and accusations between the diplomat and a businessman who claims they plotted to deliver the message to the Pentagon. Published November 22, 2011
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The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the reported Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and called on Iran to cooperate with an investigation that already has linked the Islamist regime to the assassination attempt. Published November 20, 2011
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Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani, one of the most respected foreign envoys in Washington, has offered to resign over a controversy that involves a shadowy appeal to a top U.S. military official for help in removing the powerful chiefs of Pakistan's army and spy service. Published November 17, 2011
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The arrest of a Taiwan official in Kansas City, Mo., is raising the contentious issue of legal immunity for representatives of the island nation that has remained in a sort of diplomatic twilight zone for three decades. Published November 15, 2011
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Richard M. Nixon would shock the sensibilities of today's politically correct world of diplomacy with his blunt view of career diplomats as "eunuchs," his salty assessment of a well-endowed envoy, and his defense of political donors as ambassadors. Published November 13, 2011
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Venezuela assigned its top investigators to search for Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, who was kidnapped Wednesday from his parents' home in the South American nation, the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington said Thursday. Published November 10, 2011
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Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has a challenging job trying to promote President Obama as a friend of Israel, despite increasing tension in the relations between Jerusalem and Washington. Published November 8, 2011
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The United States is withholding crucial military aid to the Philippines to protest its failure to hold security authorities responsible for "extrajudicial killings," according to the U.S. ambassador in Manila. Published November 6, 2011
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Iran is flailing about over U.S. charges of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as both the State Department and the Saudi crown prince dismiss Tehran's demands for an apology. Published November 3, 2011
Iranian exiles in Iraq fear attack from Iraqi soldiers
Unarmed Iranian exiles in an Iraqi refugee compound fear another "bloodbath" by Iraqi soldiers after military vehicles rolled into the area late Monday, an Iranian source inside the compound told The Washington Times on Tuesday. Published November 1, 2011
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A spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban called Washington news reports of tension between him and the United States "claptrap," after the Hungarian leader met with the U.S. ambassador last week. Published November 1, 2011
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Pakistan Ambassador Husain Haqqani is traveling the United States, feverishly defending his country against charges from many in Washington who accuse Pakistan of supporting terrorists who target U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Published October 30, 2011
