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Broadcast: February 8, 2003 By Cynthia Kirk This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In The News. This week, American Secretary of State1 Colin Powell presented the Bush administratio
Discordance about a secretary A: Hello, Mr. Kramer. Could you spare a minute? B: Thats about all I can spare, Karen. What do you need? A: I need to talk to you about that new secretary youve hired. I think Im going to have some problems working with
IN THE NEWS - Condoleezza Rice Nominated as Secretary of State By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, November 20, 2004 I'm Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English. President Bush this week
Broadcast: Jan 30 2003 John Snow, the railroad executive tapped by President Bush to succeed another industrialist as U.S. treasury secretary, says the economy can sustain large budget deficits in the
Broadcast: Jan 25 2003 At a session reviewing prospects for the U.S. economy, Secretary Evans sounded a note of optimism.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state -- the top cabinet position. Tillerson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at the Texas-based oil company ExxonMobil. In a statement, Trump said the business
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 23 January 2008 In a blunt statement to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, the U.N. Secretary-General urged the 65-member body to start negotiations on a nuclear weapons material treaty. Ban Ki-moon said the nuclear threat was
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has defended his handling of the $700 billion financial bailout package. Paulson spoke Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and Mike O'Sullivan reports, he called for ca
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other participants in the Middle East Quartet are due to meet in Egypt's resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh Sunday, to discuss the progress in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The group will hear a
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is arriving in India to discuss the U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement, which has received approval in the U.S Congress. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, India's communist parties, who oppose the de
By Michael Bowman Washington 27 September 2009 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates denied Sunday that a rift exists between the Obama administration and America's military commanders on how to proceed in Afghanistan. The secretary's remarks came aft
The Haitian government says many homeless Haitians are being moved to safer areas after being taken out of the destroyed city of Port-au-Prince, where the recent earthquake did its worst damage. On Friday, VOA's Melinda Smith talked with U.S. Health
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American forces need to do more to prevent killing civilians during military strikes in Afghanistan. While the secretary was in Kabul, U.S. military chief Admiral Mike Mullen visited Islamabad for talks with
The U.S. defense secretary has arrived in India for the first high-level talks between the two countries since Prime Minister's Manmohan Singh's visit to the White House, last November. Regional security - namely the fight against insurgents in Afgha
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Facebook has hired Joe Lockhart, who was former U.S. President Bill Clinton's press secretary during the last two years of his second term, as the social network company's vice president of global communications, U.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Hillary Clinton on Friday formally stepped down as the 67th U.S. Secretary of State, ending her four- year tenure as the country's chief diplomat. Thank you, Clinton said in her farewell remarks at the lobby of the Stat
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Xinhua)-- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday tapped Thomas Perez, the federal assistant attorney general for civil rights, as the new Labor Secretary. If confirmed by the Senate, he would be the first Hispanic chosen for Obam
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to name former senator Chuck Hagel to serve as his next Defense Secretary, and the announcement could come early next week, U.S. reports said Friday. Media outlets such as CNN, Fo
CAPITOL HILL The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Barack Obamas pick for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, after a bruising nomination battle that saw widespread Republican opposition to the former Republican senator by a vote of 58 to 41. Hagel wil
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved Democratic Senator John Kerry as the next secretary of state, who is set to replace Hillary Clinton. The Senate confirmed Kerry's nomination in a 94-3 vote, hours after the chamber's For