Ankara  - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Turkey on the weekend not only dealt with the tough regional policy issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq and the fight against terrorism but was also an attempt by the US to mend relations that nosedived after its invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Ankara  - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Ankara on Saturday declared Turkey a "friend for all times" and thanked her hosts for Turkey's military contribution to NATO's mission in Afghanistan, for economic investment in Iraq and for Ankara's role in the now stalled Israel-Syria peace process.

Brussels  - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted proof that her first official visit to Europe as the United States' top diplomat was a success, she could not have asked for much more than this.

"What you said could have been said by a European," Hans-Gert Poettering, the silver-haired German leader of the European Parliament, told her after an hour-long question-and-answer session on the state of EU-US relations.

There could be no higher praise from a man whose entire institution is founded on the idea that it is good to be European.

Brussels - Developed and developing economies alike should accept specific targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions at UN negotiations in Copenhagen in December, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.

"What I'm hoping for is to have as tight a regime (as possible), with measurable benchmarks and accountability, with specified outcomes," she said after talks with top European Union officials in Brussels.

Brussels - Russia could join a controversial US plan to deploy missile-defence systems in Europe which has provoked outrage in Moscow, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday just hours before a meeting with her Russian counterpart.

"We believe that Russia and the US have the opportunity to cooperate on missile defence - on joint research, joint development, and even eventually, assuming we can reach such an agreement, joint deployment," Clinton said after talks with European Union officials in Brussels.

Brussels  - A planned system to defend the United States against missile attacks which provoked outrage and threats of counter-measures in Russia is a "very important" project, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday.