PTI | Feb 13, 2012, 07.03AM IST | WASHINGTON: In the midst of US presidential election campaign, Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, which had nearly brought him down in 1998, is going to be centrestage again with his former aides discussing publicly for the first time his "womanising" in his career. In a new documentary which will be broadcast in UK and US on February 20, his former colleagues will speak publicly of their shock and sense of

By Wang Jisi, Qian Yingyi, Wang Min, Jia Qingguo, and Bai Chongen BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhuanet) - Exactly forty years ago, under the circumstances of virtually no economic, social and cultural exchanges, China and the United States, out of respective security needs, embarked on the process of normalization of their bilateral relations.

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Can the president keep nukes out of the mullahs' hands, prevent the global economy from imploding, manage the wild card that is Israel-and get reelected? Well before he moved into the White House, Barack Obama began talking to Israel about Iran's nuclear program, and even then there was mistrust.

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhuanet) - Vice-President Xi Jinping's five-day official visit to the United States from Monday starts this year's high- level interactions between China and the US. Both countries have attached great importance to Xi's visit, because it is meant to further advance their cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual benefit.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and US counterpart Joe Biden [no shown] attend a meeting with US and Chinese business leaders at the Beijing Hotel in Beijing, China, August 19, 2011. China's Vice President Xi Jinping begins a four-day visit to the United States Monday amid major challenges in relations between the two countries. White House officials say the visit by the man expected to become China's

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The US has waived a ban on military assistance to the dictatorship, which has a key asset coveted by Washington Tweet this Share reddit this Comments (...) Editorial guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 February 2012 22.36 GMT Article history About this article Close Uzbekistan: Looking in the other direction | Editorial This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 22.36 GMT on Sunday 12 February 2012.

(Source: Xinhua) 2012-02-13 BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) - China is ready to work with the United States to advance people-to-people exchange between the two peoples, Education Minister Yuan Guiren said in a bylined article prior to Vice President Xi Jinping's official visit to the U.S.. Xi's visit to the U.S.