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U.S. consul clarifies travel warning to Mexico

Associated Press

** FILE ** Glyn Davies, the U.S. special representative for North Korea affairs, speaks to journalists at a hotel after he met with Chinese officials in Beijing on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S. plans new talks with North Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Anti-Syrian regime protesters play drums and wave a revolutionary flag Feb. 6, 2012, during a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press)

State Department closes U.S. Embassy in Syria

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

In this citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and released Feb. 1, 2012, an anti-Syrian regime protester holds a poster in Arabic that reads, "to the Syrian freedom soldiers, our hearts are bases for you," as he walks during a demonstration in Idlib Province, north Syria. (Associated Press/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)

Activists say 23 dead in Syria violence

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Former U.S. official says U.S. knew Argentina’s junta stole babies

By Kelly Hearn — Special to The Washington Times

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Buffett would profit from Keystone cancellation

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

Iranian dissidents: Iraq trying to force us into ‘concentration camp’

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

A police forensic team examines the bodies of three people said to be gang members and killed by unidentified assailants in the village of Los Hornos, Honduras. Honduras has become a main transit route for South American cocaine, a trend that has helped drive the country's homicide rate to the highest level in the world and left many villages dependent on the cocaine trade. (Associated Press)

Peace Corps pullout latest blow to Honduras

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Freddy Cuevas - Associated Press

** FILE ** President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, during a forum on jobs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Republicans fume as Obama rejects Keystone pipeline

By Tim Devaney and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)

New space-arms control initiative draws concern

By Bill Gertz - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, convicted by Iran of spying for the CIA, is pictured on a video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/IRIB)

U.S. condemns Tehran over death sentence for American man

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

U.S. expels Venezuelan diplomat after cyberattack allegations

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Associated Press)

U.S. eyeing Iran leader’s Latin America trip

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The design of the new U.S. Embassy in Berlin, a brooding structure completed in 2008, drew the scorn of German newspapers as grim and uninviting. (State Department photo)

Can security and design be reconciled in new U.S. embassies?

By Roland Flamini - Special to The Washington Times

**FILE** Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (left) listens as President Obama speaks following a meeting at the White House in Washington on Dec. 7, 2011. President Obama warned congressional Republicans that he would reject any effort to tie extraneous issues to an extension of the payroll tax cut, including the approval of an oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada. (Associated Press/The Canadian Press)

Obama, Congress begin 2012 in oil pipeline dispute

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Russia slams U.S. for its human rights record

Associated Press

Non-resident visitors to the United States wait at the immigration control area after arriving at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Dec. 13, 2011. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Tourism industry seeks foreigners

By Cristina Silva - Associated Press

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer checks the passport of a foreign visitor at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Can foreign tourists help U.S. economy?

By Cristina Silva - Associated Press

**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

U.N. and Iraq reach deal on Iranian dissidents

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square react to a televised statement on Feb. 10, 2011, by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down the following day. His departure and that of Tunisia's Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali have some seeing the twilight of U.S. influence in the Middle East and others seeing new opportunities. (Associated Press)

Spring revolts may signal winter of U.S. role

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press