U.S. diplomats have met with officials at the Chinese Foreign Ministry to try to hammer out an agreement on what to do about the blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng before Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner arrive Wednesday morning, a confidant of Chen’s said. Read full article > >

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“ Texts from Hillary ” just got meta. For a week now, the blog has been depicting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s imagined text-message conversations with other politicians and celebrities — sass-mouthing Joe Biden about his love of Justin Bieber, and rejecting a friend request from Mark Zuckerberg. Read full article > >

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States seeks improved strategies with Arab Gulf states on maritime security and missile defense to counter the threat of Iran.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet with her Pakistani counterpart in London this week in a sign that months of tension between their two governments may be easing. The meeting, which U.S. officials said would take place on the sidelines of an international conference on Somalia on Thursday, is the first between Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a U.S. airstrike near the Afghanistan border in November. Read full article > >

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday remained deadlocked over a Western- and Arab-backed draft resolution condemning Syria’s violent suppression of protesters, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared to deliver a plea to international diplomats to take tougher action against President Bashar al-Assad. Read full article > >

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Clinton, other diplomats to urge Russia to allow Security Council vote on Syria

Like President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hasn’t been watching the Republican primary debates. But at least Clinton has an excuse for tuning out — she says she’s quitting government after the election no matter who wins. Read full article > >

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Like President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hasn’t been watching the Republican primary debates. But at least Clinton has an excuse for tuning out — she says she’s quitting government after the election no matter who wins. Read full article > >

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In a call to her Pakistani counterpart this month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated the Obama administration’s counterterrorism “red line”: The United States reserved the right to attack anyone who it determined posed a direct threat to U.S. national security, anywhere in the world. Read full article > >

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TEHRAN — Well, that didn’t last long. Less than 12 hours after opening, the Obama administration’s “virtual embassy ” in Iran was blocked by Tehran’s digital gatekeepers on Wednesday. Instead of seeing a welcome message from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iranians trying to reach the site were directed to an Iranian government Web page. It warned that visiting the American site was “against the law.” Read full article > >

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BONN, Germany — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Monday that “the United States intends to stay the course” in Afghanistan after U.S. and coalition troops depart three years from now. But, she said, “Afghans have more work to do” to ensure that the billions of dollars they seek is not wasted. Read full article > >

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Israeli ministers hit back at concern expressed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that democracy is being eroded in the country.

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Aung San Suu Kyi says she is hopeful that Burma can get onto “the road to democracy”, after talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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NAYPYIDAW, Burma — The highest-ranking U.S. official to set foot in Burma’s presidential palace, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday brought a message of praise to Burma’s president for his nascent gestures of reform even as she warned him that significantly more progress was needed for change to take root. Read full article > >

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After meeting with the new president, Thein Sein, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday also agreed to discuss exchanging ambassadors.

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The Obama administration’s decision to not intervene in Syria and Bahrain stems from a variety of factors, including the perceived risk to U.S. forces, the imperatives of the fight against al-Qaeda, and the need to defend American allies and to keep foreign oil supplies flowing, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday night. Read full article > >

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