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/ 22 January 2009
United States President Barack Obama is expected to issue an order on Thursday to close Guantánamo prison after a busy first full day.
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/ 19 January 2009
On the eve of his historic inauguration, Barack Obama joined on Monday in honouring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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/ 15 December 2008
President George Bush went into talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday to assure him that the US will stand by the war-torn country.
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/ 13 December 2008
The Bush administration said on Friday it could be willing to provide emergency aid to the teetering US car industry
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/ 15 November 2008
World leaders grappling with a global financial crisis pledged on Friday to deliver an action plan to ward off recession and prevent future meltdowns.
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/ 11 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama visited the White House on Monday for his first post-election meeting with President George Bush.
The US on Thursday welcomed a North Korea account of its nuclear activities and said it would remove the country from its terrorism blacklist.
United States President George Bush offered a peace prophecy for the Middle East on Thursday in which the enemies of the United States faced a future of defeat. ”This is a bold vision, and some will say it can never be achieved,” Bush told Israel’s Parliament.
United States President George Bush arrived in the Middle East on Wednesday to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday and try to energise peace efforts complicated by a corruption scandal that could topple Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. A smiling Olmert and his wife, Aliza, greeted the president and First Lady Laura Bush at a red-carpet ceremony at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport.
United States President George Bush and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will have one last chance on Sunday to try to mend frayed relations face-to-face but with little hope of resolving the biggest dispute that divides them. In a farewell summit the two leaders — both in the twilight of their terms — will use their personal chemistry to try to bridge differences.