US President Barack Obama is expected to launch his bid for a second term this week.
President Bashar al-Assad dashed hopes of an end to decades of emergency rule on Wednesday in his first speech since protests erupted in Syria.
To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it. They act as if all their Kool-Aid has been spiked.
Western warplanes hit Libya for a fifth night on Thursday, but have so far failed to stop Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks shelling rebel-held towns.
Western powers pounding Libya’s defences will wind up in the dustbin of history, said leader Muammar Gaddafi as his troops held back rebel advances.
President Barack Obama called on Monday for a "new era of partnership" with Latin America as he acknowledged a sometimes troubled past.
Haiti’s Jean-Bertrand Aristide is leaving exile in South Africa in just a few hours, despite President Barack Obama’s bid to keep him away.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón will press President Barack Obama to crack down on US drug consumption when they meet on Thursday.
Funding gap could force president to order a two-year delay in Environmental Protection Agency action, conference hears.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned the leaders of Libya and Côte d’Ivoire for waging war on their own people.
Eastern Libya was in full revolt on Thursday as veteran strongman Moammar Gadaffi made good his bloodcurdling vow to cling to power.
World leaders condemned Moammar Gadaffi’s bloody crackdown on a revolt that has split Libya, but took little action to halt the bloodshed.
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The United States on Friday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.
US President Barack Obama unveiled a $3,73-trillion spending plan for 2012 on Monday, proposing a raft of spending cuts and tax hikes.
Barack Obama said on Thursday Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s statement that he would hand over power to his vice-president was not enough.
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US President Barack Obama will outline his plan on Thursday for expanding high speed wireless internet service to 98% of Americans.
The United States said on Monday it will recognise South Sudan as the world’s newest nation as it moved to taking the north off a terrorism blacklist.
US President Barack Obama said on Monday he wanted to lower the corporate tax rate and pay for it by eliminating tax loopholes.
President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies in the US Senate on Wednesday defeated a Republican push to repeal his landmark healthcare overhaul.
The White House energy and climate adviser is due to step down in the next few weeks, a departure seen as a collapse.
Less than three months ago Obama was being declared a political corpse as his opponents seized control of the lower House of Congress.
US President Barack Obama proposed a five-year freeze on some government spending and warned of painful cuts ahead on Tuesday.
Chinese media praised President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States on Friday as a diplomatic "masterstroke" in easing tensions.
Barack Obama’s foes have muscled a symbolic Bill calling for the repeal of his overhaul of US healthcare to passage in the House of Representatives.
United States President Barack Obama delivered a strong message on US concerns over Beijing’s human rights record at a summit on Wednesday.
China and the US talked on Wednesday about China’s yuan currency being undervalued, militaries and discourse between China and the Dalai Lama.
US President Barack Obama came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to publicly speak out against Beijing’s harsh treatment of dissidents.
Organisers pressed on with the marathon task of collating the verdict of South Sudan’s independence referendum on Monday.
Obama implored Americans to cleanse their corroded democracy to fulfill the hopes of a nine-year-old girl gunned down in the Arizona shooting.
After the shootings in Arizona, US left and right are at odds over effects of toxic politics.
After first day in Congress, Republicans have outlined three bills aimed at limiting power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Barack Obama faces a divided legislature, with the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives.