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/ 6 February 2009
Speculation rife that end of 30 year estrangement with Iran and shelving of missile defence could be announced.
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/ 5 February 2009
US Vice-President Joe Biden will seek to break with the unilateralist tilt of the Bush years in a major weekend foreign policy speech in Germany.
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/ 26 January 2009
Barack Obama enters his first full week in office on Monday battling to win over Republicans hostile to his plan to haul the US out of recession.
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/ 18 January 2009
Excitement is swelling across the United States and the world as Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in Tuesday.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks.
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/ 8 November 2008
”I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.”
Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden clashed on the economy and Iraq during a lively but polite debate on Thursday.
US voters braced for the most-anticipated vice-presidential debate in history on Thursday amid speculation that Republican Sarah Palin could stumble.
United States President George Bush used a visit to Israel on Thursday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America’s enemies in the Middle East as comparable to appeasement of Hitler. Although Bush did not name any Democratic politician, the party’s presidential contender Barack Obama has offered to open negotiations with the Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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/ 17 February 2008
Al Gore, who lost to George Bush in the 2000 presidential election, is becoming a key potential power broker in the increasingly bitter battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to win the Democrat nomination. Gore emerged on Saturday as a possible mediator who could negotiate a resolution if the primary campaign ends in a stalemate.
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/ 29 January 2008
George Bush used his final State of the Union address on Monday night to try to reassert his primacy in American political life and demonstrate his commitment to Republican principles. The night was one of the few remaining moments in the national spotlight for the man overshadowed by the race to choose his successor.
”They said this day would never come,” said United States Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at the outset of his barnstorming victory speech on Thursday night. But as he arrived in New Hampshire early on Friday, Americans woke up to the historic possibility that the day when they might have a black president was closer than they thought.
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan on Wednesday urged the United States to be more patient as his country fights extremists in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Khan acknowledged his country suffered an ”image problem” but said there needed to be a greater understanding of the enormous challenges.
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/ 10 September 2007
The Bush administration’s most senior advisers on Iraq, the commander of US forces, General David Petraeus, and the ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, will launch a new drive today to defer any exit of troops until April 2008 amid growing doubts about their credibility in Congress and among the public.