White House candidate Mitt Romney will announce Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate later on Saturday, US media has reported.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been lambasted for his embarrassing gaffes during his visit to the United Kingdom.
Romney arrived in London pursued by calls to use this overseas tour to define a foreign policy that amounts to more than criticising the president.
Republican Mitt Romney has called for the US president to apologise following Obama’s questioning of Romney’s time as a private equity executive.
Hugo Chavez has denied that Venezuela is a threat to the US, after Barack Obama was accused for playing down the risk posed by the socialist leader.
A survey of global opinion about Obama shows large numbers of non-Americans feel badly let down by the man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
Speaking to reporters, Obama admitted that while corporate profits were strong small businesses were having a tough time getting financing.
Organised labour has learnt a valuable lesson in its challenge against Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker, writes Gary Younge.
On the online political battlefield, US president Barack Obama beats his rival for the hands down, write Ed Pilkington & Amanda Michel.
In a bold step the American president has openly stated his full support for same-sex unions.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump has announced he will not seek the Republican nod to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 US elections.
Court decision lets Corporate America gang up
on floundering Democrats on the sly.
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/ 23 December 2008
A report, due out on Tuesday, is expected to clear US President-elect Barack Obama’s staff of any improper dealings with the governor of Illinois.
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/ 25 November 2008
Thabo Mohlala reviews Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama by Garen Thomas.
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/ 21 November 2008
US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.
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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
The acceptance speech of Barack Obama, president elect of the United States, in Chicago, the day after he won the election.
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/ 7 November 2008
Like the victory speech of our founding president Nelson Mandela in 1994, the acceptance speech of US president elect Barack Obama caused celebration.
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/ 3 November 2008
For Kenyans, Obama has put their country on the world map, writes Nyokabi Baiya.
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/ 3 November 2008
‘Dem youthboy defied every order and turned a senator’, says a Cameroonian reggae song that captures the country’s rapture with Obama.
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/ 3 November 2008
Fredrick Mugira visits rural Uganda to find out what country folk think of the US presidential candidate.
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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
The radicalism of Barack Obama lies not in his policies but in his face, writes Mark Danner.
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/ 2 November 2008
But a greater lesson lies in the US election,
writes C Don Adinuba.
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/ 2 November 2008
Obama may have African roots, but Burundians disagree on his allegiances to the continent, writes Haydee Bangerezako.
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
Not long ago it was fashionable to say that American elections didn’t matter much to the rest of the world. After eight years of George W Bush…
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/ 30 October 2008
Obama’s appeal rivals soccer in Uganda – and he’s had at least one road named after him.
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/ 30 October 2008
“We are longing to have Obama shirts or any kinds of things about him,” says Jeannine Ralaitafika, who sells shirts in Antananarivo.