Yemeni voters are going to the polls to elect a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh after a year-long uprising that forced him from power. Tuesday’s vote is the culmination of a deal — backed by the United States and brokered by Yemen’s Gulf neighbors — to replace Mr. Saleh with Vice President Abed Rabbo […]
North Korean Envoy in Beijing for US Nuclear Talks
Posted February 21st, 2012 at 12:05 am (UTC-5)
North Korea’s top envoy to the six-nation negotiations on its nuclear program has arrived in Beijing, where he will hold talks this week with his American counterpart. First Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan arrived in Beijing Tuesday, two days before his scheduled meeting with U.S. envoy Glen Davies. The meeting will be the third between […]
