United States President George W Bush says it is the "right time" for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but has admitted the road would be difficult as he readied to open a major international gathering.

Ahead of a US-hosted Middle East peace conference, President George W Bush has said he remains "personally committed" to implementing his vision of a two- state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He was the US President's big public defender when the scandal broke over the naming of a CIA agent. Now George W Bush's former press secretary appears to be suggesting that the President knowingly misled the public over the outing of agent Valerie Plame.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Washington for a visit seen as a key step in easing the tensions between the two countries over France's opposition to the United States-led invasion of Iraq.

US President George W Bush faces crisis talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he vies to dissuade his "war on terror" ally from an incursion into Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels.

President Bush rallied U.S. troops in the southern state of South Carolina Friday. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, some of those new soldiers are headed for Iraq.

U.S. President George W. Bush blasted Congress in a Thursday speech for failing to take the terrorist threat seriously, and compared Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.

U.S. President George W. Bush warned on Wednesday that if Iran develops nuclear weapons, the result could be a new world war.

US President George W Bush has denounced Kyoto-style mandatory caps as "bad policy". He says his administration's approach of emphasising voluntary approaches to address climate change was working.

United States President George W Bush will meet the Dalai Lama the day before the Tibetan spiritual leader is due to receive the congressional medal in Washington.

US President George W Bush has vetoed a plan to dramatically expand children's health insurance. In the US there is a program that provides health insurance for children whose families earn too much to quality for Medicaid, but can not afford their own private coverage.

U.S. President George W. Bush wants fresh assurances that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is dealing with his country's soaring drug trade and pervasive security struggles.