Tag: Hillary Clinton

• Tuesday, July 14th 2015 - 06:28 UTC

  Hillary Clinton vows banks cannot be “too big to fail” since it's still “too big a problem”

  

  US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized Wall Street and her Republican rivals, promising to impose tougher regulations on banks and raise the wages of ordinary Americans if she wins the 2016 White House race. Under pressure from a campaign rival on the left, Clinton said she would appoint strict overseers to ensure that financial institutions never again indulge in the risky behavior that helped cause the 2008 banking crash.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2015 - 04:44 UTC

  Merkel remains most powerful woman in the world; Brazil's Dilma, seventh

  

  Angela Merkel has retained her place as the world's most powerful woman for the fifth year in a row, U.S. business magazine Forbes said on Tuesday. Merkel has made the list 10 times in the past 12 years, nine of them as number one. She was first elected in 2005 and won an historic third term in 2013.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:29 UTC

  Cuban-American Senator Rubio launches 2016 campaign for the White House

  

  US Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign at a rally on Monday in Miami, calling for a new era of American leadership that is not “stuck in the 20th century.”

• Monday, April 13th 2015 - 08:48 UTC

  Hillary Clinton launches presidential bid as 'champion for regular US citizens”

  

  Hillary Clinton has promised to be a champion for regular US citizens as she kicked off a long-awaited second run for the White House as the commanding Democratic front runner. Clinton, who lost a bruising Democratic nominating battle to Barack Obama in 2008, was expected to travel soon to Iowa, the state that holds the kickoff nominating contest in early 2016.

• Monday, June 9th 2014 - 07:45 UTC

  Hillary Clinton favors easing US economic embargo on Cuba

  

  While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton urged President Barack Obama to ease the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, according to excerpts from her memoir due out next week.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 20:21 UTC

  Kerry refuses to comment on Falklands’ referendum; US position remains unchanged

  

  Starting in London his first trip overseas as the new US Secretary of State, John Kerry kept strictly to US policy on the Falkland Islands and refused to comment on the coming referendum when Islanders are expected to decide on their political status and future.

• Wednesday, January 30th 2013 - 01:34 UTC

  With almost unanimous support John Kerry confirmed as US Secretary of State

  

  Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry won overwhelming confirmation from his fellow US senators as secretary of state, succeeding Hillary Clinton as the top US diplomat. The vote was 94-3. Dissenters were Republicans Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma and Texans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Kerry.

• Saturday, December 22nd 2012 - 07:56 UTC

  Obama nominates Senator Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State

  

  US President Barack Obama has nominated Senator John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as his next secretary of state. Mr Obama said Mr Kerry's “entire life” prepared him for the role, and praised him for the “respect and confidence” he has earned from world leaders.

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 23:02 UTC

  US reshpaing foreign policy based on ‘power of economics’ and jobs diplomacy’

  

  US foreign policy is being reoriented to promote American economic interests after Washington was tied down by two wars in the past decade, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday.

• Friday, November 9th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Why foreign policy holds the key to Obama’s second term

  

  President Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney is a landmark moment in US politics. He is only the second Democratic president to win re-election since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, doing so despite a very challenging economic headwind of sluggish growth and comparatively high unemployment in the United States.