Former United States President Bill Clinton had escaped an assassination bid by terrorists controlled by Osama bin Laden in Phillipines, according to a new book. He was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge in Manila where a bomb was planted. The foiled attack came during Clinton's visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the city in 1996. The details have been revealed in a new book.
Senator Hillary Clinton, bidding to become the first woman president of the US, consolidated her position by winning the hard-fought Nevada caucuses edging past her Democratic rival Barack Obama
Former United States President Bill Clinton has invited Ruchira Gupta, an activist who has fought against sex trafficking for two decades, to join his CGI Lead Task Force -- a high level group within the Clinton Global Initiative.Gupta is the founder president of Apne Aap Women Worldwide and winner of the 2009 Clinton Global Citizen Award for Leadership in Civil Society.
Bill Clinton was snapped in an awkward photograph recently, which has gone viral.
Former United States President Bill Clinton offered very few additional details on Thursday on his trip to retrieve two American journalists who had been captured and detained by North Korea. "My job was to do one thing, which I was profoundly honoured to do, as an American and as a father. I wanted those young women to be able to come home," Clinton said. "Anything I say beyond that could inadvertently affect the decisions and moods either here or in North Korea," he said.
Clinton, according to Sacramento Bee, would endorse four Democrats running including Bera in some of the country's most closely watched congressional races. Bera is contesting from California's 7th Congressional District, which is seen by political experts as one of the nation's most competitive.
'There's a lot of sense in what Prime Minister Modi did, but the Indian government has to be really prepared for a really sharp escalation spiral.'
Since his own retirement from leading a country in 2000, Clinton has established a foundation campaigning on issues such as the fight against HIV/Aids.
Bill Clinton was the first husband to give a speech on behalf of his wife as the nominee of a major party.
'Pakistan cannot sustain a war with India for more than four days. They are in such dire straits. At best they can sustain war for one week.'
The US Senate is likely to approve the vote on nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State after a Republican lawmaker, who a day before voiced concern over foreign donations to her husband Bill Clinton's foundation, on Wedensday said he would vote in favour of the former First Lady.
At the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, former United States President Bill Clinton once again displayed his skills as an extraordinary orator when he took the stage to bat for President Barack Obama.
US President Bill Clinton made an impassioned plea to them to continue their work in making the innovative technology create a better world.
Former US president Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie Blair will be attending the first India Leadership Summit beginning in New Delhi on November 29.
'We need to raise the costs and consequences for Pakistan. It is long overdue. Our initial surgical strike was effective for about six months. Then, the Balakot strike provided a deterrent for perhaps two to three years. But we cannot operate under the assumption that such limited responses will suffice for decades to come.'
Harris, 59, is mostly likely to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic party now that she has been endorsed by President Joe Biden, who announced on Sunday that he will not seek re-election, as well as other top party leaders including former president Bill Clinton.
Former United States president Bill Clinton arrived by special plane on Wednesday morning to a red carpet welcome amid tight security at the Amausi airport in Lucknow.
Terrorists opened fire at a popular tourist spot near Kashmir's Pahalgam town on Tuesday afternoon, killing 26 people, mostly holidayers from other states, in what is the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019.
'I think the Iraqis are better off with Saddam gone, if they can have a stable government,' he said.
The estimated costs of these weddings start from Rs 100 crore and go up to Rs 700 crore.
The former US president would undergo quadruple heart bypass surgery in New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh contributed anywhere from $1 to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, and so did industrialist Lakshmi Mittal, chief executive of ArcelorMittal, according to information released by the non-profit organisation set up by the former President Bill Clinton to fund a variety of charitable activities around the world, including combating the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
The former president is reportedly angry at not being invited to speak at Friday's funeral.
Former US President Bill Clinton on Friday launched a major medical initiative to make available Anti-Retroviral Drugs to millions affected by HIV/AIDS around the world at almost one-third of the existing market costs.
Former US President Bill Clinton on Saturday said America was not interested in dominating Iraq and instead would like to see the representative government ruling the country.
The former US president, who was scheduled to visit New Delhi for his keynote address to the India Today conclave, had to cancel his trip due to "serious security considerations".
Officially kicking off her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton on Saturday gave a rallying call to build "real and lasting prosperity" that "should be shared by all" and not just by CEOs and billionaires.
Monica Lewinsky is set to write a tell-all book about her torrid affair with Bill Clinton, including her intimate love letters to the US ex-president.
We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win, Harris said.
Amid talks that former President Bill Clinton's successful visit to North Korea might open up a new door of engagement with the United States, President Barack Obama has said it was just a humanitarian mission to seek the freedom of the two jailed American reporters from the Communist nation. Led by Obama himself, the White House and the State Department including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had a tough time in responding to various questions.
Just days after retiring as US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton is back in limelight after launching a mysterious new website that boldly features her in an attention-grabbing photo.
Former United States President Bill Clinton always waved and said hello to Shobha Vanchiswar when he walked through her neighbourhood in Chappaqua, New York, as part of his daily exercise routine.One day in the fall of 2007, Vanchiswar got the nerve to strike up a conversation with him. She had heard Clinton talking on television about his foundation. "He was talking in a way that made sense to me," Vanchiswar said.
Battered in opinion polls by President George W Bush, Democratic challenger John Kerry is now turning to former President Bill Clinton, considered among the best campaigners, for advice on how to reinvigorate his sagging campaign
The former United States first lady ended Hillary Clinton's 17-year run as America's most admired woman.
Clinton said in the blog post that she takes responsibility for creating the perception of being walled off but she is not cold or unemotional.
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