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/ 21 January 2009
Barack Obama ordered prosecutors to seek a suspension on Wednesday of military trials at the Guantánamo Bay ”war on terror” prison camp.
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/ 21 January 2009
After being sworn in as the 44th and first black US president on Tuesday, Barack Obama powered his way through a rousing 20-minute speech.
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/ 21 January 2009
George Bush bid farewell to Washington politics on Tuesday, leaving with little fanfare as the US turned its attention to new President Barack Obama.
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/ 21 January 2009
In the end, the inaugural balls went off a little more smoothly than the oath of office as Barack Obama avoided stepping on his wife’s toes.
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/ 21 January 2009
Barack Obama took power as the first black United States president on Tuesday and quickly turned the page on the Bush years.
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/ 20 January 2009
Barack Obama took office on Tuesday with bank shares tumbling, the car sector teetering and a world economy in tatters.
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/ 20 January 2009
Barack Obama became the first black United States president on Tuesday, making history before a sea of people in Washington DC.
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/ 20 January 2009
Barack Obama prepared to make history on Tuesday as the first black US president, riding a wave of public optimism.
Deborah Tompkins doesn’t seem to be too bothered by the fact that security vehicles have been whipping round her neighbourhood since 3am.
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/ 20 January 2009
The web was alive with all things Obama ahead of his inauguration in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, as thousands made use of Twitter.
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/ 20 January 2009
Huge crowds poured into Washington, DC, before dawn on Tuesday for Barack Obama’s inauguration with a building sense of joy.
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/ 20 January 2009
Jonathan Freedland reports on the intensifying excitement as strait-laced Washington DC awaits Obama’s transformation into head of state.
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/ 20 January 2009
A nudist club near Washington DC is offering to bail out people stuck for accommodation during the inaugural period of President-elect Barack Obama.
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/ 20 January 2009
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim on Monday agreed to provide the cash-strapped New York Times Company a -million loan.
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/ 20 January 2009
Tracing the arc of history to a day many thought would never come, Barack Obama is on Tuesday to be sworn in as the United States’s 44th president.
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/ 20 January 2009
One thing’s for sure: Obama will become the next president of the US sooner than you can say ”all inclusive government” in Zimbabwe.
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/ 19 January 2009
On the eve of his historic inauguration, Barack Obama joined on Monday in honouring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
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/ 19 January 2009
Barack Obama said on Monday his inauguration as the US president would extend the work of ”renewing the promise of this nation”.
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/ 19 January 2009
Every once in a while, a culture shifts. You feel like a Luddite until your learning curve is complete. That is the experience I have been having.
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/ 19 January 2009
The expectation heaped on his skinny shoulders may be unrealistic — but let’s savour the day, and then keep him to his task.
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/ 19 January 2009
After a seemingly endless transition period, Barack Obama has a daunting to-do list when he finally takes office on Tuesday.
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/ 18 January 2009
Salvage experts worked on Saturday to hoist on to a barge the US Airways plane that made a miraculous landing in the Hudson River this week.
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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.
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/ 17 January 2009
New York has fêted its latest hero, the pilot who landed a distressed US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River, saving all 155 on board.
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/ 17 January 2009
Barack Obama heralds his new era of change on Saturday by rolling back the years to launch four days of inaugural festivities.
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/ 17 January 2009
Bruised and battered at the start of 2009, Wall Street looks ahead to the inauguration of Barack Obama as president with hope.
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/ 16 January 2009
Ailing US banking giant Citigroup reported on Friday that it was splitting into two businesses to restore profitability.
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/ 16 January 2009
US President George Bush can see his post-White House life already, and it doesn’t involve lazy days soaking up the sun, dressed like a tourist.
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/ 16 January 2009
A US Airways jet with 155 people on board ditched in the frigid Hudson River off Manhattan after apparently hitting a flock of geese on Thursday.
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/ 16 January 2009
In a breakthrough that could signal a new era for human technology, researchers said they are a step closer to creating an invisibility shield.
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/ 15 January 2009
Citigroup and Bank of America faced new doubts over their ability to fund their massive losses as their shares sank on Wednesday.
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/ 15 January 2009
President-elect Barack Obama said on Wednesday that al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden remain the "number one threat" to US security.