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Ambassador Susan Rice spoke out for the first time Wednesday to defend her early account of the Benghazi attack, saying she based it on the initial intelligence assessments.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fell asleep during Obama's historic speech in Myanmar.

Pope Benedict Wednesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make "courageous decisions" to end the Gaza conflict, saying it risked spilling over into the rest of the Middle East.

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton announced a cease-fire agreement from Cairo, as fighting continued in Gaza and a bus exploded in Israel.

The Morsi government stands to gain a lot from brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The hard part? Making it happen.

Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt on the eighth day of intensive Israeli fire on the Gaza Strip and militant rocket attacks out of the enclave, Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.

The Republican senator said he's surprised, and frustrated, that the intelligence community itself was responsible for deleting references to Al Qaeda from a document on the Benghazi attacks.

China, whose public support for the Palestinians has been a key characteristic of its policy in the Middle East, Wednesday said it would host an envoy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the crisis in Gaza.

Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire continued Tuesday night as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Jerusalem.

Barbara Walters shared some of her "10 Most Fascinating People 2012" list on Monday, including the likes of One Direction, E.L. James and Chris Christie.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hastily departed to the Middle East Tuesday from her Asia tour with President Barack Obama attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, to join efforts to broker truce between Israel and Palestinian militants.

U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first meeting with China’s outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao since the presidential election, overlooked the maritime disputes between the Southeast and East Asian nations and instead laid the emphasis on establishing clear rules for trade and investment between the U.S. and China.

Police arrested a man who allegedly stabbed a security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, a police spokesman said.

In a letter to Obama Monday, almost 100 House Republicans said Rice intentionally misled Americans in the days after the Benghazi attack.

Israel made nearly 200 airstrikes in Gaza early Saturday, the Israeli military said, destroying the prime minister's headquarters.

Petraeus reportedly believed all along the Benghazi attack was terrorism, but references to al Qaeda were allegedly removed from a draft document.

The former CIA head is testifying in a closed-door Hill inquiry Fri. - his first appearance since the affair that undid him came to light.

Congress passed a bill Tuesday that would bar U.S. airlines from having to pay carbon taxes under the EU's controversial Emissions Trading Scheme.

Last week, Name It. Change It., a project of the Women's Media Center, called out the Huffington Post for sexist media coverage. The criticism was dismissed by Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards.

President Obama is giving his first press conference since his re-election. Stay with IBTimes for a play-by-play.

France is the only Western country to formally recognize Syria's new opposition coalition -- so far.