Posts Tagged Barack Obama
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EDITORIAL; Belated Realism on Yemen
Editorial supports Obama administration's belated strategy of easing Yemeni Pres Ali Abdullah Saleh from office
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Wikicountability Site Takes Aim at Obama
A group with ties to Karl Rove has a Web site to collect freedom of information requests that scrutinize Obama.
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The Case for Obama Campaigning on the Economy
Mr. Obama is most likely to campaign for a second term by seeking to convince voters that jobs are his primary concern.
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OP-ED COLUMNIST; Looking For Luck In Libya
Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column says difficult decisions facing coalition in Libya are emblematic of future difficulties in 'new' Middle East, region fraught with moral and political ambiguities; expresses hope that luck favors Pres Obama's decision t
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Obama vows U.S. forces won’t get bogged down in Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Americans on Monday that U.S. forces would not get bogged down trying to topple Muammar Gaddafi but stopped short of spelling out how the military campaign in Libya would end.
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UPDATE 3-Healthcare, global warming impede U.S. budget deal
* White House says current plan risks Obama veto (Adds OMB comments, paragraphs 6-7)
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Carter to visit North Korea, not carrying U.S. message
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter plans to visit North Korea, the State Department said Thursday, but it said he was going in a private capacity and not carrying a message from the U.S. government.
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Radiation scare leaves Tokyo short of bottled water
TOKYO (Reuters) - Many shops in Japan's capital ran out of bottled water on Thursday after a warning of radiation danger for babies from a damaged nuclear plant where engineers are battling the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.
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Obama says Gaddafi may wait out military assault
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may try to wait out a no-fly zone and military assault that has damaged his armed forces, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in an interview with CNN.
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Strikes on Libya set to slow, stalemate feared
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft fire rang out across Tripoli for a third night on Monday, but air attacks on Libya are likely to slow, a U.S. general said, as Washington holds back from being sucked into the Libyan civil war.
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U.S. stresses limits to military role in Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. officials on Sunday stressed the limits of American military involvement in Libya, despite a heavy assault on Muammar Gaddafi's forces, and said Libyans would decide their country's fate themselves.
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Obama says U.S. role limited as Libya strikes start
BRASILIA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces led the biggest military intervention in the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq on Saturday, but President Barack Obama insisted that U.S. involvement would be limited as part of an international effort
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