US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he wanted to know "whose ass to kick" over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
US President Barack Obama unveiled a new national security strategy on Thursday, replacing former president George Bush’s "war on terror" doctrine.
President Barack Obama will this week demand swift action on reforms designed to purge a high-risk and excess-riddled Wall Street culture.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday denied a crisis was rocking relations with Israel, as one of the worst rows in years between the allies rumbled on
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will talk soon with Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu in an effort to ease a bitter diplomatic feud.
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/ 23 January 2010
US President Barack Obama is "troubled" by cyber attacks on Google and wants answers from China, the White House said on Friday.
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/ 22 January 2010
President Barack Obama has unveiled plans to limit the size and scope of US banks and financial firms in a new offensive against Wall Street excesses.
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/ 21 January 2010
President Barack Obama has admitted he neglected his direct connection to the American people, after a stunning Republican election win.
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/ 15 December 2009
President Barack Obama on Monday talked tough with US bank chiefs, demanding they boost lending to create jobs.
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/ 13 October 2009
A key US congressional panel was set to cast judgement on healthcare reform on Tuesday.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke a second term.
Despite nationwide financial misery, President Barack Obama has a new message for Americans: the pulse of the sickly US economy is quickening.
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/ 25 December 2008
Barack Obama is riding the crest of the best approval ratings of any president-elect in decades, a new poll showed on Wednesday.
President George Bush on Monday warned it was too early for United States troops to "pack up and go home" from Iraq, on the fourth anniversary of a war clouded by pessimism and political angst on the home front.
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/ 16 November 2006
"Jagshemash!!!" Kazakhstan is belatedly turning the joke on Borat, using the blundering fictional reporter as an unlikely prop to "make benefit" its tourism industry. Embracing the maxim "if you can’t beat them, join them", a Kazakhstan-based tour company has pounced on Borat’s conquest of Hollywood to lure Americans keen to find out what the country is really like.
Visions dawned on Monday of a new golden age of philanthropy with Bill Gates atop a mammoth $60-billion charity machine, with a global punch to rival world aid bodies and even governments. Investment guru Warren Buffett’s $31-billion donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will double the size of Gates’ fund and make it by far the world’s largest charitable foundation.
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/ 12 October 2004
With polls showing the United States presidential race too close to call, the incumbent George Bush headed for the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado on Tuesday to shore up his Republican base there while preparing for his last nationally televised face-off with Democrat John Kerry.
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