AFP – US President Barack Obama Monday gathered top national security and intelligence staff for his regular review of Afghan and Pakistan strategy, amid signs of fresh tensions with Islamabad.
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Obama gathers top aides on Afghanistan, Pakistan
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AFP – US President Barack Obama Monday thanked Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for clamping sanctions on Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi, and both leaders vowed to support sweeping change in the Middle East.
AP – President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged to work together to address currency and other imbalances in the world economy as nations struggle to recover from the global crisis.
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Obama, Sarkozy discuss global economy, terrorism
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AFP – President Barack Obama Monday defended the Federal Reserve after foreign condemnation of its “quantitative easing” policy of printing billions of new dollars to shore up the fragile US economy.
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Obama defends Fed from foreign onslaught
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AP – A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.
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Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon
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AFP – US President Barack Obama Monday promised more than 50 billion dollars to create jobs rebuilding roads, railways and airports, targeting huge unemployment and ripping resurgent Republicans.
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As Democrats fear rout, Obama launches new jobs push
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