Washington, 14 May, 2007— Black poet Lucille Clifton has won the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious honors awarded American poets. In making the $100,000 award, the judges cited Clifton’s “looming […]

Washington, 14 May, 2007— A senior diplomat says her recent appointment as the first full-time U.S. envoy to the African Union (AU) highlights a growing U.S.-African partnership aimed at pursuing political stability and economic prosperity […]

Washington, 14 May, 2007— Following on a brief exchange between U.S. and Iranian officials at the Iraq Neighbors’ Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Washington and Tehran have agreed to engage in ambassadorial-level discussions about the […]

Washington, 14 May, 2007— U.S. officials are joining delegations from 192 other nations in Geneva for the 60th World Health Assembly (WHA), being held May 14-23, to discuss and act on policies addressing key issues, […]

Washington, 7 May, 2007— Planning for the upcoming African Growth and Opportunity Forum in Ghana includes input from African partners who believe the U.S.-originated trade program has the best chance to bring the continent into […]

Johannesburg, 4 May, 2007— Donors are moving towards providing aid in the form of direct support to the budgets of developing countries, but experts are calling for more spending on health and education because there […]

Washington, 3 May, 2007— Nineteen years and $4.6 billion into a global campaign to eradicate the poliomyelitis (polio) virus that paralyzes and often kills children younger than age 5, a debate has begun about whether […]

Washington, 3 May, 2007— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem May 3 on the margins of the Iraq Neighbors’ Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in the highest-level contact between […]