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/ 17 November 2011
Italian clothes company Benetton has pulled a photo montage showing the pope kissing a leading imam from its new global ad campaign, Unhate.
Beijing fears a policy of encirclement as US President Barack Obama announces plans to begin stationing 2 500 troops in northern Australia.
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/ 15 November 2011
While on a two-day visit to <i>Crocodile Dundee</i> country, an Aussie company has decided to insure Barack Obama against crocodile attacks.
United States President Barack Obama has served notice that the US is fed up with China’s trade and currency practices.
APEC leaders will call on countries to do what they can to prop up economic growth, rallying around the common threat from Europe’s debt crisis.
US President Barack Obama will use a visit to Australia next week to announce that America will station marines at a base in Darwin.
Barack Obama topped Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people in 2011, while Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin came in at No. 2.
As the US withdraws its remaining 39 000 troops from Iraq, the influence of its nemesis Iran in the corridors of power in Baghdad is likely to rise.
President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will fulfill its pledge to pull troops out of Iraq by the end of the year.
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President Barack Obama has maintained his attack against congressional Republicans over his jobs bill, upping pressure before it faces a vote.
The Chinese government is increasingly using economic pressure to bully foreign governments into not meeting the Dalai Lama.
In his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, US President Barack Obama promised that this time it would be different.
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/ 27 September 2011
Cuba wants to re-establish relations with the United States with a focus on humanitarian issues, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday.
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/ 26 September 2011
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused US President Barack Obama of speaking "gibberish" in his recent address to the United Nations.
Angry Palestinians protested in the streets of Ramallah and Gaza after a speech to the UN by US President Barack Obama seen as unashamedly pro-Israel.
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/ 22 September 2011
South Africa, a key UN Security Council member, "fully supports" the Palestinian bid for full membership of the United Nations.
President Barack Obama laid out a $3-trillion plan to cut US deficits by raising taxes on the rich, but Republicans rejected it as a political stunt.
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/ 19 September 2011
President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress are digging in to fight the 2012 US election campaign over the budget and taxes.
US and European powers stepped up a diplomatic scramble on Sunday to avoid a UN showdown on the Palestinian plan to seek full UN membership.
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/ 18 September 2011
President Barack Obama, in a populist step designed to appeal to voters, will propose a "Buffett Tax" on people making more than $1-million a year.
US President Barack Obama’s job approval rating continued its downward spiral on Friday, dropping to 43% while his disapproval rating soared to 50%.
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/ 14 September 2011
China and the US have urged Europe’s leaders to prevent the eurozone debt mess from spreading — which is now also threatening Italy.
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/ 13 September 2011
The eurozone’s leaders need to show markets they are taking responsibility for its debt crisis, says US President Barack Obama.
The name-reading ceremony of the nearly 3000 people killed on September 11 2001 ended on Sunday in New York with buglers playing taps.
A jittery US has come together in grief during the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which killed almost 3 000 people and plunged it into war.
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/ 11 September 2011
Americans on Sunday remembered the horror of September 11 2001, and the nearly 3 000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks.
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/ 9 September 2011
New York police were out in force on Friday in response to intelligence about a car bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Barack Obama’s jobs package could lift US economic growth by one to three percentage points in 2012, add well over one million jobs, say analysts.
Barack Obama is due to unveil a jobs package in a speech to Congress. What might his bold plan to reduce the country’s unemployment rate consist of?
Barack Obama is planning about $300-billion in tax cuts and government spending as part of a job-creating package, US media reports say.
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/ 6 September 2011
Wall Street braced for losses on Tuesday after world stock markets took a beating over fears that the US economy was heading back into recession.