Clinton, Bush to appear jointly in Toronto next month

October 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former American first lady Laura Bush says her admiration for Hillary Clinton has grown after she witnessed her "emotional and physical stamina" during the presidential campaign of 2008. Fox News quoted her as saying: "Our campaigns are so long and so brutal that the people who finally win are almost self-selected because they have emotional and physical stamina to run for office.

September 11th, 2009 TORONTO - A young Sikh man was shot dead early Friday morning in the Indian-dominated city of Brampton on the outskirts of Toronto. The local police, who responded to an emergency call, said 33-year-old Devinder Singh Gill was found injured after being shot at about 4.20 a.m.

July 31st, 2009 PRETORIA - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit South Africa next week as part of her seven-nation tour of Africa, BuaNews Reported. Clinton will begin her tour Aug 5 when she arrives in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to attend the 8th US-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (AGOA Forum).

July 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says in building a "most comprehensive engagement" with India, the Obama administration was continuing with the "good work" done by his predecessor George Bush. "We're building on some of the good work that's been done in a bipartisan way with India, starting with my husband (Bill Clinton)" the former first lady said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.

July 20th, 2009 Clinton 'satisfied' with role in foreign affairsWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is denying she's unhappy with her say in foreign affairs in the Obama administration. In a nationally broadcast interview that aired Monday morning, Clinton told ABC: "I broke my elbow, not my larynx." There has been speculation that Clinton was chafing over perceived competition in the national security area from Vice President Joe Biden, national security adviser James Jones and special envoys Geoge Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke.

July 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new analysis has indicated that the judicial appointments of former president George W. Bush suggest that his motivation for appointing nontraditional judges was driven more by ideology and strategy than concerns for diversity.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday declared that the Obama administration was "clearly committed to furthering and deepening relationship with India in every way possible". Setting at rest speculation that unlike the previous Bush administration, President Barack Obama was ignoring New Delhi, she said both Obama and she herself were committed to build stronger ties with India.

May 30th, 2009 TORONTO - Former US President George W. Bush, who appeared at a joint "conversation" with former president Bill Clinton here Friday, was greeted with angry protests by hundreds of Canadians.

May 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday the US must reach out to Latin American leaders to reverse of the 'disturbing' trend of growing Chinese and Iranian influence in the region. 'If you look at the gains, particularly in Latin America, that Iran is making and China is making, its quite disturbing,' Clinton said after giving speech to State Departement employees.

April 23rd, 2009 Clinton: Bush's Iran policy was a failureWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is criticizing the Bush administration for what she called a failed eight-year effort to isolate Iran. In congressional testimony Thursday, she said the approach of President Barack Obama's predecessor did not deter Iran "one bit" in its ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons and support terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

March 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be going to India at some point, but it's not clear whether the visit would be before or after the Indian general election next month. 'At some point Clinton will be going to India, but there isn't any plan at this moment of her travel,' State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Tuesday briefing reporters about Clinton's meeting Monday with visiting Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.

February 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reaffirmed the US' 'special relationship' with Britain after a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband Tuesday. Miliband became the first foreign official to meet Clinton since her confirmation last month as the top US diplomat.

January 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton Tuesday said she would not rule out the possible use of military force by the Obama administration to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability. 'We are not taking any options off the table at all,' Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during her confirmation hearings to become the top US diplomat.

January 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush will host former presidents and his successor, Barack Obama, at the White House for a private meeting during lunch Wednesday, the White House said.

December 26th, 2008 WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has topped Gallup's poll of the most admired man to become the first person in over a half century to do so before taking America's highest office. Thirty-two percent of Americans surveyed in the new USA Today/Gallup poll said Obama was the man they most admired - a better showing than either former presidents George H.W.