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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Moscow for a two-day visit to repair the United States' fraying relationship with Russia. The countries will discuss Russia's objections to a U.S.-led missile defense system for Eastern Europe.

Iran has been in the news for its continued defiance of the International Atomic Energy Agency. But while the countrys policies stir controversy, one of its top filmmakers works toward diplomacy. Jafar Panahis

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Members of the House are expected to vote Thursday on a bill that provides $43 billion for the Iraq war over the next two months. The measure calls for a second vote in July on additional war funds. President Bush vows to veto any bill that only partially funds his war requests.

In his victory speech Sunday evening, newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he wanted to reach out to "his American friends." Analysts say relations between the U.S. and France could improve with the election of the pro-American Sarkozy.

Some folks in the backcountry of San Diego County may have never heard of Blackwater USA, the budding private military contractor that wants to build a training center in Potrero. But award-winning re

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held the first ministerial-level meeting with Syria in more than two years Thursday. Rice says she pressed Syria on securing its border with Iraq, while Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem urged that a U.S. ambassador return to Damascus.

A Turkish court has invalidated the first round of last week's presidential election. The decision is a setback for the moderate Islamist party's candidate, Abdullah Gul, who was expected to win easily. The fear: too much power for a non-secular party.

John Bolton is best known for his tenacious tenure at the United Nations, and for his tough, no-nonsense talk. The former ambassador and State Department official answers questions about foreign affairs, diplomacy and U.S. policy toward Iran and North Korea.

David Makovsky, director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, tells Robert Siegel that with Olmert's approval numbers already hovering in the single digits, the report makes the "lame duck" prime minister look like "a dead duck."