A few months into her tenure, Clinton for the first time extended a host of services and benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of foreign service employees stationed around the world. full story
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Where billions of dollars in aid went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left 220,000 people dead — and at least 1.6 million more homeless — remains a confounding mystery. full story
GENEVA — Belarus needed help. It had just confirmed a study that found 35 percent of all TB cases in the capital of Minsk were multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) — the highest rate in the world ever recorded for the deadly disease, which takes up to two years to treat and is cured in Western Europe only one third of the time. full story
