Fidel Castro mocks Obama for Cuba comments (AP)
AP – Fidel Castro mocked President Barack Obama on Thursday for saying he’s open to changing U.S. policy toward Cuba if there is change on the island first, calling the U.S. leader “stupid.”
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Analysts’ view: What Obama should propose on job creation (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to offer a plan to jump-start flagging U.S. job growth that relies on a package of tax cuts and government spending that could cost upward of $200 billion.
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Why it took so long for Obama to say Syria’s Assad must go (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – President Obama on Thursday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign due to his continued brutality against his own restive population.
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Obama urges Gabon’s Bongo to root out corruption (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama on Thursday pressed Gabon’s ruler Ali Bongo Ondimba in a White House meeting to do more to fight corruption and prevent human rights abuse.
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Ground zero crowd voices hope, apprehension (AP)
AP – Yolanda Moreno was so happy to live in a world without Osama bin Laden that she skipped work to meet and thank President Barack Obama on Thursday.
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Obama thanks Medvedev for Libya statements (AFP)
AFP – US President Barack Obama on Thursday thanked Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev for “positive statements” about the mandate of a UN resolution implementing a no-fly zone over Libya.

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Obama says Libya’s Gaddafi "must leave" (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama on Thursday called on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave power and said he has approved the use of U.S. military aircraft to pick up Egyptians on the Libya-Tunisia border.
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Obama says looks forward to more steps by Algeria (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama on Thursday welcomed the lifting of a state of emergency in Algeria, but also urged the government there to do more to meet its people’s demands for greater rights.
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Top US lawmaker sounds alarm over Syria nukes (AFP)
AFP – A top US lawmaker pressed President Barack Obama on Thursday to impose new sanctions on Syria after photographs emerged suggesting its secret nuclear program was broader than previously revealed.

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Obama introduces new chief of staff (Politico)
Politico – President Barack Obama on Thursday introduced William Daley as his new chief of staff, tapping a political heavyweight with an unusual combination of high-level experience both in the business world and in Washington to oversee the White House as it grapples with a more Republican Congress and prepares for the president’s expected re-election campaign in 2012.
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