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December 20, 2015

Kerry off to Mexico for talks on Venezuelan crisis

The State Department said Wednesday the U.S. may have to take a larger role in trying to ease the crisis in Venezuela if a South American effort to broker talks between the government in Caracas and the opposition remains stalled.

December 20, 2015

GOP chairman revives Benghazi subpoena of Kerry

A Republican House chairman on Thursday issued a new subpoena for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, in an escalating fight with the Obama administration over its cooperation with Congress.

December 20, 2015

Tensions mount in South China Sea dispute over Chinese oil drilling

China is stepping up provocative actions and harsh rhetoric in maritime disputes in the South China Sea as Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi traded words on the growing tensions.

December 20, 2015

Clinton's State Department resisted labeling Boko Haram as terror group

The State Department, under Hillary Clinton's leadership, repeatedly resisted and blocked efforts to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group.

December 20, 2015

US preparing team to help Nigeria locate kidnapped girls

The White House said Tuesday the U.S. is preparing to send a team to Nigeria to help the government search for nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted more than three weeks ago by Islamic militants.

December 20, 2015

Did ex-White House aide's Benghazi comments conflict with former CIA director's testimony?

Ex-White House official Tommy Vietor’s recent comments to Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ may conflict with statements former CIA acting director Michael Morell told Congress about the deadly Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans. During an interview on “Special Report “Thursday, Vietor admitted to having input into editing the talking points memo, which was used by U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice to claim that the Sept. 11, 2012 attack was the result of a protest over an anti-Islamic video.

December 20, 2015

Boehner announces special committee on Benghazi, Kerry subpoenaed

House Republicans moved on two fronts Friday to dig for answers on Benghazi, with Speaker John Boehner announcing a special committee to investigate and a key panel subpoenaing Secretary of State John Kerry to testify.

December 20, 2015

Kerry calls for end to violence in South Sudan, warns of possible genocide

In a stern warning, Secretary of State John Kerry is urging South Sudan's warring government and rebel leaders to uphold a monthslong promise to embrace a cease-fire or risk the specter of genocide through continued ethnic killings.

December 20, 2015

Kerry to promote peace, threaten sanctions on trip to South Sudan

It's not yet clear whether the U.S. will impose the sanctions while Kerry is in South Sudan — which, he said recently, he planned to visit during a week of stops that also include Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.

December 20, 2015

Kerry says US 'inches away' from imposing broader sanctions on Russian economy

Secretary of State John Kerry has been thinking about, talking through and wrestling with the Ukraine crisis for weeks, but he still grasps for words to describe the motivations of the man at its center: Russian President Vladimir Putin.