The senator’s passing marked the end of a 35-year political career
US Senator John McCain said Moscow’s real priority was to "prop up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
US senators have warned Egypt that the risk of a rupture in ties is growing amid an escalating row over the trial of US pro-democracy activists.
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/ 13 January 2012
Environmental groups have praised US President Barack Obama’s move to limit uranium mining near one of the world’s natural wonders, the Grand Canyon.
Republican frontrunner faces dirty tricks and a ‘bare-knuckles’ contest in South Carolina.
Mitt Romney managed an endorsement from US Sentaor John McCain after a new challenge from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
Nato air strikes may force Libya to halt fighting by its army in the besieged port of Misrata and let local tribes take over the battle.
Rebels welcomed a US decision to deploy Predator drones and Senator John McCain to Libya on Friday, where Gaddafi’s forces still have the upper hand.
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/ 5 February 2009
Global protectionism fears were heightened after the US Senate voted to keep a "Buy American" clause in the huge US stimulus Bill.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama will on Tuesday hold talks with congressional Republicans who complain his -billion stimulus plan is too expensive.
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/ 3 December 2008
Reflecting what’s on the minds of Americans, "bailout" and "socialism" have beaten "maverick" in a US dictionary word-of-the-year competition.
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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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/ 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.”
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/ 5 November 2008
The man who once described himself as a ”skinny kid with a funny name” stood before the crowd and took upon his shoulders the weight of leadership.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama won the presidency and made history on a steady message of bringing change to a country that has been hungering for it.
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/ 5 November 2008
Sue Harris was not quite sure how to react to the victory of Barack Obama. At a party held by the local Republican party, she was lost for words.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama rode a wave of voter discontent to a historic White House victory on Tuesday, promising change as the first black US president.
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/ 4 November 2008
On one campaign flight in August, I was finally getting some rest when I was woken by a familiar baritone. I looked up, startled, to see Barack Obama.
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/ 4 November 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain faced the verdict of Americans voting on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle for the White House.
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/ 4 November 2008
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain face the verdict of United States voters on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle.
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/ 4 November 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama issued a barnstorming call for change at his final campaign rally on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2008
Barack Obama stood on the threshold of history on Monday as polls gave the Democrat a solid lead over John McCain on the last day of campaigning.
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/ 3 November 2008
Whether it’s Barack Obama or John McCain who makes it to the White House, the briefing the president gets on the economy will be a sombre affair.
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/ 3 November 2008
There is nothing unusual about mixed-race people in the South, although in decades past there was no ambiguity about the subject.
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/ 3 November 2008
With the United States election just around the corner, who’d want to be in the shoes of either front-runner Barack Obama or John McCain?
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/ 2 November 2008
Millions of Americans aren’t just redoing their hair for Palin — they’re taking off their clothes too.
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/ 2 November 2008
Americans choose on Tuesday between Barack Obama and John McCain in an epochal election that could enshrine their first black president.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain ramped up his attacks on Democratic rival Barack Obama on Saturday, describing his rival as stuck in the ”far left lane” of US politics.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain on Friday seized on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power in Ohio, a state critical to his hopes of clawing back Barack Obama’s lead.
Obama and McCain differ on the uses of American power, but who is the hawk and who is the dove, asks David E Sanger.
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/ 1 November 2008
It wasn’t easy. I didn’t get my absentee ballot in time so I called the consulate in Johannesburg to see what I could do.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign says Democratic voters are piling up imposing early voting totals in battleground states.