Treaties

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pushing a key foreign policy goal, a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, closer to completion. He was signing documents Wednesday for the New START treaty, a cornerstone of U.S. efforts to "reset" ties with...

LA ROSITA, Texas (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents have made an unusual bust while patrolling the U.S. shore along the lower Rio Grande near Rio Grande City. A Border Patrol statement issued Monday says the agents were working near the river Sunday...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Mexican national was executed Thursday for the rape-slaying of a San Antonio teenager after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a White House-supported appeal to spare him in a death penalty case where Texas justice...

RAPID CITY, S.D. - In a historic move, representatives from several Native American tribes united and walked out on a meeting with U.S. State Department officials Thursday, in regards to talks over the Keystone XL Pipeline. Supporters of the project say...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German lower house of parliament approved Croatia's entry to the European Union on Thursday, clearing the last formal hurdle for the former Yugoslav republic to enter the bloc. Croatia is scheduled to join the EU on July 1....

* Disarmament conference deadlocked for over a decade * U.S. urges barring sanctioned states from U.N. posts * Iran says will prioritize nuclear disarmament as chair By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday defended...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank clashed with Germany on Tuesday over how quickly the euro zone should complete a system to deal with failing banks. A separate rift also emerged at a European Union finance ministers meeting over whether...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world's sole multilateral disarmament forum after the United States announced that its ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament would boycott any meeting...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Joerg Asmussen threw his weight behind demands by France and the European Commission for the swift establishment of a single supervisory authority and resolution regime for euro zone banks next year....

BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) - Spain and Portugal called on Monday for the euro zone to complete a banking union as Germany underscored legal hurdles before a central element of the plan to deal with failing banks can be introduced. "It is indispensable...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's finance minister has called for a "two-step approach" towards European banking union, writing that a limited "timber-framed" union, set up without changing European treaties, would buy time to create a future "steel-framed"...

* German finance minister sends mixed message on banking union * Berlin's objections could derail scheme to tackle weak banks * EU leaders made a commitment to banking union last June * EU officials say a single agency is needed to close banks By John...