Colin Powell

People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage at a train station in Seoul, South Korea

North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile

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North Korea launches at least one ballistic missile into the ocean. Also, Russia suspends its permanent mission to NATO. And, US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad resigns and is set to be replaced by his deputy.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gestures during a lecture about business management and leadership in Madrid, Spain

In the post-Cold War era, Colin Powell became the most ‘popular and influential’ US military leader, biographer says

Obituary
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is seen at the State Department in Washington

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell dies at 84

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Secretary of State Colin Powell looks on as President Bush addresses State Department employees at the State Department in Washington

Colin Powell, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims, dies

Obituary
Samantha Power sitting The World's studio for a radio interview.

Former Amb Samantha Power stresses ‘political evolution, rather than revolution’

Conflict & Justice

Experts say foreign policy largely irrelevant when U.S. voters head to ballot box

Though matters of foreign policy have provided Barack Obama and Mitt Romney equal chances to batter one another, and it could be argued that a large part of the slow U.S. economic recovery is due to foreign troubles, foreign policy doesn’t amount to much for voters.

Informant who lied about WMDs goes public

Global Politics

Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi is better known by his CIA codename: Curveball. Janabi was a CIA informant whose falsified account of WMDs led the US to invade Iraq. Janabi will make a public appearance in a BBC documentary entitled “Modern Spies.”

“Cadillac Records”

Arts, Culture & Media

Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright talk about their new film, “Cadillac Records,” about Chess Records and its recording artists in the 1940s.

Powell key endorsement for Barack Obama

Global Politics

Colin Powell’s recent endorsement — what’s behind it, and how it will help the Obama campaign.

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Christine Todd Whitman on rehabilitating the GOP

Global Politics

Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey and ex-chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discusses what it will take to breathe life back into the GOP.