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Secretary of State John Kerry’s First Overseas Trip

Three weeks after succeeding Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State, the long-time Senator and 2004 Presidential candidate left on a ten-day inaugural trip...

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As FIFA, soccer's governing body, awards the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively, TIME takes a look at some of the stadiums that hosted...

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April 12, 2012

"Is the United States willing to lead either from the front or from behind? So far the answer to that question is 'No.'"

- SHADI HAMIDof the Brookings Center in Qatar, on the role of the U.S. in the Syrian Crisis
April 08, 2011

"Our power comes from the power of our great people, not from Qatar, not from anyone else. This is blatant interference in Yemeni affairs."

- ALI ABDULLAH SALEH,Yemeni President, rejecting the plan for his exit after two protesters were killed in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz
April 25, 2011

"They are fake refugee camps. Qatar is paying for them."

- MOUSSA IBRAHIM,spokesman for the government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, insisting that the 30,000 or so Libyans who have fled to Tunisia as a result of the fighting are staging a bogus refugee crisis in order to win support from NATO

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