Euronews
| Apr 3, 2013
Pyongyang soldiers are stopping South Korean workers and trucks from reaching Kaesong, a joint industrial zone they share which is located in the North but which employs hundreds of workers from the South. It's yet another provocative move from th...
Associated Press
| Mar 18, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the longer Syria's two-year civil war goes on, the greater the danger of its institutions collapsing and extremists getting their hands on the Arab country's vast chemical weapons arsenal.
Democracy Now!
| Mar 7, 2013
A historic trial underway in Argentina is set to reveal new details about how Latin American countries coordinated with each other in the 1970s and '80s to eliminate political dissidents. The campaign known as "Operation Condor" involved military ...
IBA News
via
Mosaic
| Mar 4, 2013
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak opened the AIPAC conference by outlining Iran's nuclear threat, specifying it could not be dealt with using diplomacy alone. While AIPAC, America's largest pro-Israel lobby met in Washington DC, Yukiya Amano, h...
Aswat Masriya
| Mar 3, 2013
Demonstrators opposing the Islamist government gathered outside the Foreign Ministry of Egypt as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is on his first visit to the country since taking office. Alongside his counterpart, Kerry urged Egyptians to unite...
Euronews
| Feb 28, 2013
John Kerry pledged stepped-up American aid to the Syrian opposition today after a "Friends of Syria" meeting in Rome. The US will provide $60 million in assistance, along with nonlethal supplies like food and medicine for rebel fighters. Military ...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 27, 2013
World powers and Syrian opposition leaders are meeting in Rome today for crucial talks aimed at ending the country's civil war. Al Jazeera takes a look at potential roadblocks -- including Russia's insistence that the opposition stop making "unrea...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 24, 2013
John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has embarked on his first official trip overseas. Kerry left Washington to start a grueling nine-nation, 10-day trip that will take him to Europe and the Middle East, discussing many issues including the conf...
Newsy
| Feb 5, 2013
There won't be a son-of-Romney race, at least not quite yet. Despite speculation, Mitt Romney's eldest son, Tagg, has announced he won't run for the Massachusetts Senate seat left open by now US Secretary of State John Kerry. Three others have pas...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 31, 2013
Hillary Clinton says goodbye to the State Department today, to be replaced by John Kerry. In her final public address as Secretary of State, she hailed US foreign policy successes, reflected on the changing nature of diplomacy -- and hinted at wha...
— Oct 26, 2012 at 09:58 am
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Algeria on October 30th, US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday (Octob...
— Jun 7, 2012 at 01:07 pm
...the meeting. Clinton also told the meeting that transition in Syria must include a fully representative interim government that would supervise ...
— Mar 3 at 12:43 am
...cooperation with Egypt, noting that last September some 100 U.S. businessmen came to Egypt to explore chances for cooperation, expressing readin...
— Apr 3 at 08:19 am
...who declined to be named. The U.S. State Department was not immediately available to comment. A month ago, on his first visit to Turkey since ta...
— Apr 3 at 04:27 pm
...and ease Israel's diplomatic isolation in the Middle East as it faces challenges posed by Iran's nuclear program. Davutoglu also said Russian Fo...
The Secretary of State is a senior official in the Federal Government of the United States of America heading the Department of State, principally concerned with foreign affairs and is considered to be the U.S. equivalent of a foreign minister.
The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is a member of the President's Cabinet, the National Security Council, and is the highest-ranking appointed executive branch official both in the presidential line of succession and the order of precedence.
The Secretary of State along with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General are generally regarded as the four most important cabinet members because of the importance of their respective departments. Secretary of State is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule and thus earns the salary prescribed for that level.
The current Secretary of State is John Kerry, the 68th person to hold the office since its creation in 1789.
(via Freebase)
