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/ 2 December 2008
Barack Obama rode a wave of anti-war sentiment to the White House but he vowed on Monday to maintain ”the strongest military on the planet”.
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/ 1 December 2008
President-elect Barack Obama on Monday nominated former rival Hillary Clinton to be the next United States secretary of state.
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/ 1 December 2008
Hillary Clinton may have fallen short in her quest to become president, but as secretary of state she will have a unique opportunity.
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/ 1 December 2008
The histrionics of Obamamania have permitted no scrutiny of liberal democracy’s shift towards a corporate dictatorship.
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/ 27 November 2008
The US consumer freeze deepened on Wednesday as a fall in spending gave the Thanksgiving shopping season its worst possible start.
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/ 27 November 2008
The bosses of the United States’ big three carmakers appeared before Congress last week to plead the case for a $25-billion government aid package.
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/ 26 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has named Paul Volcker as chair of a new panel that will advise him on stabilising financial markets.
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/ 26 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama will press his aggressive plans to deal with his nation’s woes on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
Thabo Mohlala reviews Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama by Garen Thomas.
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/ 25 November 2008
Barack Obama on Monday promised an extraordinary multibillion-dollar economic package to deliver a jolt to the United States.
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/ 25 November 2008
Touted as the next US secretary of state, the former first lady carries tremendous political baggage.
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/ 24 November 2008
A report has called for rich nations to make the first cuts in greenhouse gases while developing countries carry on as usual for the time being.
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/ 24 November 2008
In a bar in Zanzibar I saw two sex workers chatting up a couple of Germans. The men were in their 50s and balding — the women were young and pretty.
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/ 23 November 2008
US President-elect Barack Obama said on Saturday he was crafting a two-year plan to fight an economic crisis of ”historic proportions.
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/ 23 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has chosen seasoned policymakers Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers as his two top economic lieutenants.
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/ 22 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama said on Saturday that he was crafting an aggressive, two-year stimulus plan to revive the troubled economy.
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/ 21 November 2008
US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.
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/ 20 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary.
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/ 20 November 2008
The crowds Obama drew gave a glimpse of how Americans can come together for change.
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/ 20 November 2008
How black is Barrack Obama? The answer is that he is neither black nor white. He is brown — the colour of the future.
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/ 20 November 2008
Like Barack Obama, president in waiting Jacob Zuma will be inheriting a different economy to the one over which his predecessor presided.
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/ 19 November 2008
Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri condemned United States president-elect Barack Obama as a ”house Negro” in an internet message on Wednesday.
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/ 19 November 2008
Barack Obama said on Tuesday the US would engage vigorously in climate-change talks when he is president, and he pledged to work to reduce emissions.
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/ 18 November 2008
Barack Obama’s rise to power in the United States has exposed cracks in Brazil’s self-image as a racially integrated society.
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/ 18 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama and vanquished rival John McCain met on Monday for the first time since the November 4 election.
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/ 17 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq as part of a foreign policy break with George Bush.
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/ 17 November 2008
Of all the charges hurled at liberalism in America since the 1970s, few have proven as potent as the allegation of ”liberal hypocrisy”.
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/ 17 November 2008
(Note to postman, in case the inauguration is fast- tracked please forward this letter to the White House in Washington)
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/ 16 November 2008
The election of the first black president in US history should send a powerful signal to young black Americans: If Barack Obama made it, so can you.
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/ 16 November 2008
As the man and woman walked slowly towards the war memorial in Chicago last week, the figure of Barack Obama was instantly recognisable.
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/ 16 November 2008
It was a fireside chat for a wi-fi world. Barack Obama on Saturday launched his first regular weekly update to the American voters by YouTube.
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/ 16 November 2008
President elect Barack Obama has only 100 days to save the US auto industry, write David Gow and Mark Milner.