AFP – US President Barack Obama’s job approval rating slumped to a personal low of 40 percent in a public opinion survey out Friday, a possible reflection of the political war over US debt.
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Obama hits new low in key poll
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AFP – US President Barack Obama urged polarized lawmakers to find an “11th hour” deal to avert a calamitous early August debt default and heaped praise on a newly unveiled bipartisan budget plan.
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Obama pushes for ’11th hour’ debt deal
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AFP – US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that “some progress” has been made in tough debt talks, as he congratulated a bipartisan group of senators busy hammering out a “balanced approach.”
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‘Some progress’ in debt talks, Obama says
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AFP – Financial markets will “start reacting adversely fairly quickly” if no deal is reached to raise the US debt ceiling and rein in spending, President Barack Obama warned Tuesday.
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Markets will react ‘adversely’ if no debt deal: Obama
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AFP – US President Barack Obama stormed out of tense debt-limit talks Wednesday with his top Republican foes after declaring he was ready to stake his reelection on the outcome, a Republican aide said.
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Obama storms out of debt talks: Republican aide
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AFP – US President Barack Obama urged Democrats and Republicans Saturday to take a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction ahead of a new round of key talks aimed at avoiding America’s default on its debt.
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Obama urges ‘balanced approach’ in deficit talks
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AFP – US President Barack Obama said Friday that bleak jobs figures injected new urgency into weekend talks with his Republican foes on an elusive deal to cut spending and avert an early-August debt default.
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Obama: Bleak jobs picture shows need for debt deal
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AFP – Democrats and Republicans still have a long way to go to reach a deal to raise the US debt limit, President Barack Obama said Thursday, calling another round of crisis White House talks.
AFP – President Barack Obama Thursday hosted his top Republican foes for talks on forging a deal to raise the US debt limit and avert an early August default that could unleash global economic shockwaves.
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Obama hosts Republicans for high-wire debt talks
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AFP – A top US lawmaker pressed President Barack Obama on Monday to recall the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, saying his presence only served Damascus for “propaganda purposes.”
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Key US lawmaker urges recall of envoy to Syria
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