Obama spares Blackwater on Sudan violations
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:13 PM PDT
WASHINGTON -- The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by McClatchy. |
Afghan war going slower than anticipated
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:13 PM PDT
WASHINGTON -- Days after President Barack Obama installed a new commander in Afghanistan, CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded Sunday that progress in the war has been "harder" and "slower than I think anyone anticipated." |
Leaders get a fiscal warning
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:12 PM PDT
TORONTO -- President Barack Obama warned Sunday that the world economic recovery remains "fragile" and urged continued spending to support growth, an expansionist call at the end of a summit marked by an agreement among developed nations to halve their annual deficits within three years. |
Obama says he's serious about tackling deficits
The Edge Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:10 PM PDT
TORONTO: President Barack Obama said on Sunday, June 27 he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring US budget deficits and said that would involve presenting Americans with "some very difficult choices" next year.Obama also said that he believed a review of the "messy and unfair" US... |
Books: “The Promise.â€
The New Yorker Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:08 PM PDT
This chronicle of the first year of the Obama Presidency argues that Obama took charge well before he was elected, when the economy imploded, in September, 2008. Operating in crisis mode since then, he has brought to the White House a “Zen temperament,†a strategically chosen Cabinet, and . . . |
Elena Kagan's confirmation hearing to begin
WGN Radio Chicago Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:06 PM PDT
Senate Republicans are expected to grill Obama's Supreme Court nominee on issues such as gun control and campaign finance reform. Kagan is expected to be confirmed. The questions will come hard and fast for Elena Kagan, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, as her confirmation hearing gets underway Monday. But there will be an added wrinkle beyond the standard thrust and parry over ... |
Could McChrystal Help Obama Get a Bipartisan Restart?
Time.com via Yahoo! News Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:05 PM PDT
The reaction to the savvy resolution of the crisis is far more in line with the kind of bi-partisan coalitions Obama once promised to build -- and still aspires to create |
Obama presses China over N Korea
BBC News Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:02 PM PDT
US President Obama tells Chinese Premier Hu Jintao it must act on North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean ship. |
Changes needed to WTO talks
Straits Times Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:02 PM PDT
TORONTO - US PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Sunday called for significant changes to the long-delayed Doha round of world trade talks, telling Group of 20 leaders that offers on the table were inadequate. Mr Obama, who spoke at a lunch with G20 leaders, emphasized that he remained committed to the World Trade Organization's Doha round and was not trying to start it from scratch, according to sources ... |
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