Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaking at CFR, pledged a new plan to regulate systemic risks to the financial system, including enhanced oversight of "non-banks," even as the government moves to rescue the U.S. banking system.

Speaking at CFR, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke urged an overhaul of U.S. financial regulation that might translate to added oversight authority for the Fed.

The international community's Mideast envoy, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says conditions are ripe to boost the Israeli-Palestinian peace process but stresses the need to move swiftly, especially in resolving the dispute over Gaza.

Russian President Dmitry A. Medvedev, speaking at CFR on Saturday, said Moscow viewed the changing of the guard in the White House as a chance for revitalization of U.S.-Russian ties after years of deteriorating relations.

CFR experts offer their analysis of President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.

Campaign 2008 calendar outlining the events before the presidential election on November 4, 2008.

CFR experts offer their analysis of the proceedings at the Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland.

Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations' New York headquarters, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden defended his agency's policies in the “war on terror” and accused irresponsible journalism of hindering vital CIA efforts.

Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's minister of foreign affairs, told a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that most of Iraq’s neighbors “have not been helpful at all” in controlling their borders to prevent insurgents from entering Iraq.

The Council lost one of its most distinguished members on December 8, 2006, when Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick passed away. A dedicated member of the Council for more than twenty-five years, Kirkpatrick served on the Board of Directors from 1985 to 1994. She was also vice chair of the Board from 1993 to 1994.

Gen. James Jones, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations about the progress made and the challenges ahead for the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reiterated that his government does not provide safe haven to Taliban leaders waging war in Afghanistan. At a Council on Foreign Relations briefing he warned against linking the large ethnic Pashtun population in western Pakistan with Taliban extremists.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan holds the key to securing Afghanistan five years after the ouster of the Taliban. He told a Council on Foreign Relations meeting that terrorism and Taliban elements rooted in Pakistan were the contributing greatly to his country's security woes.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sparred with a senior group from the Council on Foreign Relations for ninety minutes Wednesday on virtually every contentious issue between the United States and Iran.

Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres says the deaths of nearly sixty Lebanese civilians in an Israeli air strike was a "mistake" of wartime. In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said Israel finds itself in a war with no clear end, and warned that Iran's regional ambitions must be reined in.

(NOTE: This is a news brief of a June 16, 2006, meeting at the Council on Foreign Relations. A full transcript will be available shortly on www.cfr.org.)

Karen Hughes, who runs America's public diplomacy, says policymakers increasingly are aware that U.S. actions abroad must not undermine America's stated goals and values. Hughes spoke at CFR headquarters in New York on Wednesday.

At a CFR meeting, Azerbaijan's president said his country would not aid U.S. military action against Iran.

Supporters of Belarusian opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich defied bans on public rallies to protest reports of widespread fraud during the March 19 presidential polls that overwhelmingly re-elected Alexander Lukashenka as president of the former Soviet republic. But, as cfr.org's Lionel Beehner reports from Minsk, protesters began streaming back home Tuesday evening as the cold Eurasian night began to fall.

Four former chairmen of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have welcomed ongoing moves toward greater global convergence on market regulatory standards, saying they are key to the success of U.S. investors.