Washington, Feb. 6 : American aid to Egypt, which is estimated at an average of two billion dollars a year, is reportedly in peril with U. S. lawmakers threatening to block assistance in response to Egypt's crackdown on pro-democracy groups.

The Washington Post quoted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as saying in Munich: "We are very clear that there are problems that arise from this situation that can impact all the rest of our relationship with Egypt." We do not want that."

Washington, Jan 27 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reiterated that she is ready to quit American politics.

Speaking at a town hall meeting with State Department employees, Clinton said she is ready to step off "the high wire of American politics."

She added that she is no longer following the Republican White House race and has not watched any debates, ABC News reports.

It is still unclear what she would do after leaving politics but her departure would end a two-person dynasty in American politics.

Washington, Jan 27 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her State Department employees that she was ready to be out of the public eye.

"I think after 20 years - and it will be 20 years - of being on the high wire of American politics and all of the challenges that come with that, it would be probably a good idea to just find out how tired I am," the Politico newspaper quoted her as saying.

Clinton, who in the past ran in senatorial and presidential elections, said this time she finds it "a little odd to be totally out of an election season."

Washington, Jan 14 - US State Secretary Hillary Clinton will start her four-nation Africa tour next week, the State Department announced Friday.

Her visit to Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Togo and Cape Verde is to "demonstrate US commitment to post-conflict return to peace, good governance and economic development as well as to emphasize US focus on democratization," Xinhua reported quoting a statement from the State Department.

While in Liberia, Clinton will attend President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's inauguration and preside over the ribbon cutting of the new US embassy compound in the capital city of Monrovia, it said.

Washington, Jan 11 - The US has condemned the Iranian government's decision to begin uranium enrichment operations at a facility in the country's north.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Monday confirmed that Iran had started enriching uranium to the 20-percent level at its Fordo plant near Qom city.

"This step once again demonstrates the Iranian regime's blatant disregard for its responsibilities and that the country's growing isolation is self-inflicted," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement Tuesday.

Clinton lamented that the construction of the new plant in Qom had been carried out secretly for three years.

Washington, Dec 28 - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continue to be named by Americans as the Most Admired Man and Most Admired Woman living today in any part of the world.

While Obama has been the Most Admired Man four years in a row Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 10 years, according to a new Gallup poll, leading public opinion pollster.

The top five Most Admired men also include George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, and Warren Buffett, while Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, and Condoleezza Rice round out the top five Most Admired women.

Washington, Dec 20 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has accused Egyptian authorities of failing the country''s women since the revolution to ouster president Hosni Mubarak began, and denounced the stripping and beating of a female protester as “shocking” and a “disgrace”.

Clinton accused Egypt''s new leaders of mistreatment of women both on the street and in politics, The Telegraph reports.

“This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonours the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people,” Clinton said in a speech at Georgetown University.

Washington, Dec 20 : Speculations are rising that former and current female secretaries of states, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, are planning to enter the 2012 presidential race.

Joseph Curl, former White House correspondent for the Washington Times, wrote that Rice could provide a much needed addition to the Republican race, strongly suggesting that she is the silver bullet for the vice presidential slot.

This comes amid reports that an anonymous group has arranged robocalls pushing Hillary Clinton as a spoiler democratic nominee, The Daily Mail reports.

Washington, Dec 20 : As India, United States and Japan held their first trilateral meeting here, Washington and Tokyo affirmed a deepening of strategic ties with India and made it clear the dialogue was not directed against China.

In fact after a meeting with visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba Monday shortly before the official level trilateral, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington supported a similar trilateral meeting between US, Japan and China as proposed by Tokyo.

Washington, Dec 15 - Russian election protests did not come from the outside, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday in her first public response to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's accusations of interfering in Russia's domestic affairs.

The US administration, including Clinton, earlier voiced concern over irregularities reported by international observers at the Dec 4 parliamentary elections in Russia.

Clinton said the polls were neither free nor fair. Russia rejected the accusations.

"This was not about the United States. This was about the people of Russia," Clinton told the PBS television network.

Washington, Dec 2 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up her three-day official visit to Myanmar Friday, saying there remains much work to be done with Myanmar in the democratisation process.

During the visit, Clinton met President U Thein Sein, Speaker of the House of Representatives U Shwe Mann, Speaker of the House of Nationalities and Union Parliament U Khin Aung Myint and Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin, Xinhua reported.

This was the first trip by a US secretary of state to the country since 1955.

Washington, Dec 1: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said her country and Pakistan should learn lessons from the cross- border NATO attack to jointly tackle terrorism.

Clinton also said that Washington is committed to undertaking a full probe into the attack that had killed 28 Pakistani soldiers.

Expressing regret over Pakistan’s withdrawal from a US-backed meeting on Afghanistan in Bonn, Germany, she, alongwith Germany and Afghanistan, called on Islamabad to reconsider.

Washington, Nov 29 : The US military will lead the probe into the cross-border attack by NATO forces that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the defence department said Monday.

The probe will "look at the full range of factors that contributed to this tragedy and it will be broad, expansive and thorough", the department's press secretary George Little said, adding that the US Central Command
(Centcom) will lead the investigation.

Twenty-four Pakistani soldiers were killed Nov 26 when NATO fighter jets and helicopters bombed two security posts in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border. Thirteen others were injured.

Washington, Nov 19 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has avoided criticizing the Republican 2012 presidential candidates about their ability to deal with a crisis efficiently, saying that she has not been `paying a lot of attention' as she had been traveling quite often.

On being asked by a journalist whether "any of these Republican president candidates are ready to answer the 3:00 a. m. phone call?"-- a reference to Clinton's 2008 campaign ad that implied that the former first lady was the most prepared to deal with a crisis, she said: "I haven't been honestly paying a lot of attention."

Washington, Nov 19 : U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that a civil war in Syria is possible if the opposition grows stronger there.

"I think there could be a civil war with a very determined and well-armed and eventually well-financed opposition that is, if not directed by, certainly influenced by defectors from the army," Xinhua quoted Clinton, as saying.

"We''re already seeing that, something that we hate to see because we are in favor of a peaceful protest and non-violent opposition," she said, blaming Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for provoking the opposition into "taking up arms."