Senate critic now backs Bolton for U.N.
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United Nations Ambassador John Bolton's most vocal critic in the Senate now says Bolton should be renominated without a fight.
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The White House on Thursday  complained that politics is holding up a Senate vote on  President George W. Bush's attempt to retain John Bolton as the  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has picked up the backing of Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the 10th Senate endorsement Clinton has received in her presidential bid.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United  Nations John Bolton announced on Monday he would soon give up  his job after being unable to satisfy Senate opponents  concerned he would pursue a unilateral U.S. foreign policy.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will step down in the coming days, the White House announced on Monday, unable to overcome Democratic Senate opposition.
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Australia on Thursday backed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan against calls for his resignation over the world body&#39;s scandal-plagued oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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Lacking the votes to keep his job, embattled U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said Monday he would resign, a defeat for a chagrined President Bush who had clung to hopes of Senate confirmation.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed  United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday in the  face of criticism over the U.N. oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
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The State Department yesterday endorsed a Senate investigation into possible fraud in the United Nations oil-for-food program while sidestepping a senator&#39;s
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The prime minister has thrown his weight behind beleaguered secretary general of the United Nations as Kofi Annan faces stringent criticism over the UN oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  called Kofi Annan a good U.N. secretary-general on Friday after  days in which Washington chose not to defend the diplomat  against a U.S. senator's demand he resign.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed support for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the face of calls from a US senator for him to resign over the scandal-plagued UN oil-for-food programme for Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States expressed confidence in Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday and said he should remain at the helm of the United Nations, an abrupt turnaround from its refusal to back him last week after a US senator called for his resignation.
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Bolton could be good at hammering out resolutions, but on U.N reform the verdict against him is grim.
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The US fully supports UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and is not trying to oust him, US Ambassador John Danforth says.
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The US Senate has confirmed President George W. Bush's nomination of former US spy chief John Negroponte as deputy secretary of state.
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A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday  approved the nomination of John Negroponte, the outgoing  director of national intelligence, to become deputy secretary  of state, sending the nomination to the full Senate.