President Barack Obama has taken the official oath for his second term at the White House in a small, private ceremony.
Israeli prime minister’s aides accused United States president of interfering in Israel’s elections.
Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass measures aimed at reducing gun violence, but also reaffirmed his commitment to the right to bear arms.
As a way of acknowledging the east African government, US President Barack Obama has met Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
United States President Barack Obama has mounted the biggest challenge in two decades to the US’s deeply ingrained gun culture.
US President Barack Obama’s half-brother has hit the campaign trail in his native Kenya in a bid to get a seat in the upcoming elections.
Fresh from the legislative fight to prevent a "fiscal cliff", President Barack Obama has warned that the US could not afford further budget showdowns.
The US Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation to avert the "fiscal cliff" by stopping most of the tax hikes and across-the-board spending cuts.
America’s "fiscal cliff", the name given to the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax rises and spending cuts, will dominate the economic week.
President Barack Obama, pushing for a deal to avoid the looming tax hikes and spending cuts entered last-minute talks with Senate leaders on Friday.
Barack Obama is due to host congressional leaders including his Republican rivals in a last-ditch bid to halt America’s slide over the fiscal cliff.
President Barack Obama has issued a stern summons to congressional leaders to approve legislation before year’s end to prevent tax increases.
Time has tapped Barack Obama for its Person of the Year for the second time, citing his re-election as symbolic of the nation’s shifting demographics.
President Barack Obama has demanded changes in the way the US dealt with gun violence, at a memorial held for the massacre of 20 schoolchildren.
Politics trump data this week as the ANC’s leadership conference gets underway, Japan’s old leadership is back in power and Europe waits on Italy.
"We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years," Obama said during a somber televised appearance in the White House briefing room.
The US Secret Service is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security over the loss of computer files on the Washington Metro system.
In a move that could prove crucial in defining his second term, Obama has urged US Congress to extend a tax cut for middle class Americans.
Republican senators have opened the way for a new showdown with United States President Barack Obama.
Orderly and ordered – the African National Congress can only wish its elective conference could be like the Chinese version.
Egypt has announced that a ceasefire had been reached to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, starting later in the day.
Israeli air strikes killed 31 Palestinians in the bloodiest day so far in the Gaza Strip, as diplomatic efforts to broker a truce intensified.
US President Barack Obama will announce a $170-million aid pledge to Burma to mark his historic visit to the country.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday said it was "preferable" for the Gaza crisis to be ended without a "ramping up" of Israeli military action.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has called US President Barack Obama and the two discussed options for "de-escalating" the situation in Israel and Gaza.
The majority who voted for Obama disliked the radical changes advocated by the Republican market and religious fundamentalists, says Slavoj Zizek.
Did US President Barack Obama endorse same-sex marriage because it was gaining acceptance or because it was the right, albeit unpopular, thing to do?
Over the coming days, US President Barack Obama will begin talks on the country’s fiscal cliff, while China will wrap up its leadership transition.
US President Barack Obama marked Veterans Day by celebrating the fact that America’s decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming to an end.
CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned as head of the US spy agency, saying he had engaged in an extramarital affair and "showed poor judgment."
US President Barack Obama claimed he has a mandate to hike taxes on the rich, firing his first post-election shot at Republicans.
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