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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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/ 14 December 2008
After a year in which it nearly lost its compass, the campaign against climate change heads into 2009 needing top-level political commitment.
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/ 14 December 2008
By the time United States President George Bush he vacates the White House, he will have issued a record number of so-called ”midnight regulations”.
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/ 6 December 2008
As their eight years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue come to a close, George and Laura Bush have revealed their plans to move on.
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/ 5 December 2008
America seems much in need of Roosevelt’s maxim to stop fearing fear itself. Virtually all comment on the Mumbai massacre has mentioned 9/11.
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/ 2 December 2008
George Bush has admitted that the decision to go to war against Iraq on the basis of flawed intelligence was the biggest regret of his presidency.
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/ 26 November 2008
An award-winning rapper and a Detroit policeman facing cocaine and money laundering charges are among the first to have won a pardon.
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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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/ 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.
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/ 10 November 2008
When George Bush acts as host to Barack and Michelle Obama on a visit to the White House on Monday, it will be an increasingly rare event.
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/ 10 November 2008
When Bush and Obama meet at the White House on Monday for the ”psychological transfer” between them, the moment has potential for awkwardness.
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/ 6 November 2008
Barack Obama will pay homage to Abraham Lincoln when he takes the oath of office as the United States’s next president in January.
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/ 21 October 2008
Optimism grew on Tuesday that the global financial crisis was being brought under control as stock markets surged.
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/ 19 October 2008
US President George Bush announced on Saturday he would host the first in a proposed series of global summits on the financial crisis.
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/ 18 October 2008
The United States Congress has approved -million for an independent study of possible space-based missile defences.
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/ 18 October 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to press George Bush on Saturday on the need for an overhaul of the international financial system.
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/ 14 October 2008
The United States pledged on Tuesday to pump -billion into its banks, following similar action in Europe, though a threat of recession remained.
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/ 14 October 2008
Asian stocks surged on Tuesday after world governments threw lifelines to ailing banks in a bid to end the financial crisis.
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/ 14 October 2008
Having sabotaged eco-innovations, the motor industry is now demanding billions, writes George Monbiot.
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/ 13 October 2008
Governments around the globe launched a multi-pronged attack on the finance crisis on Monday, with markets enjoying record one-day rises.
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/ 10 October 2008
Global finance chiefs gathered in Washington for crisis talks on Friday as panic spread in global financial markets.
President George Bush said on Saturday that benefits from the recently passed financial bailout would take time to show up in the US economy.
The US military’s new Africa command went into action on Wednesday, but hostility has forced it to shelve plans to be based on the continent.
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/ 24 September 2008
United States President George Bush stood unrepentant and unbowed before the 192 member states of the UN general assembly on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2008
US negotiators are making ”good headway” on legislation to provide an unprecedented -billion bailout of financial markets.
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/ 20 September 2008
The United States surged into action on Friday to launch an all-out attack against the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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/ 19 September 2008
Who’s to blame? Indebted Americans? Alan Greenspan? Slack credit rating agencies? Greedy and overpaid chief executives?
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/ 16 September 2008
United States President George Bush pledged swift federal aid for millions of storm-struck Texans on Tuesday.
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/ 12 September 2008
An order issued by George Bush giving US forces carte blanche to mount operations inside Pakistan raised fears that the conflict was spreading.
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/ 11 September 2008
A memorial opens next to the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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/ 11 September 2008
President George Bush secretly approved orders allowing US forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan, the New York Times reports.
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/ 10 September 2008
George Bush punctured hopes of a big reduction in US troops in Iraq on Tuesday when he announced the withdrawal of 8 000 troops by February.