AP – A Venezuelan diplomat ordered out of the U.S. last weekend only left the country this week, an Obama administration official said Wednesday, even though Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed she had long since returned home.
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Official: Expelled Venezuelan has left the US
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AP – The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said Thursday.
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AP source: Admin. plans change in immigration rule
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Reuters – The U.S. government would only allow Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to travel to the United States for “legitimate” medical treatment, and is now considering the request, a senior Obama administration official said on Monday.
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Reuters – The U.S. government would only allow Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to travel to the United States for “legitimate” medical treatment, and is now considering the request, a senior Obama administration official said on Monday.
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U.S. mulling Yemen’s Saleh travel request: official
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Reuters – The United States is sceptical that China’s comments it could support a legally binding deal to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions marked a breakthrough in troubled climate talks, an Obama administration official said in Durban Sunday.
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U.S. sees little new in China greenhouse gas cut pledge
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AP – The Obama administration is considering an early shift in the U.S. military role in Afghanistan from primarily combat to mainly advisory and training duties, even as it struggles to create the beginnings of a political settlement of the war, a senior U.S. official said late Wednesday.
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Reuters – President Barack Obama may send to Congress as early as Monday three long-stalled free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, a senior administration official said Saturday.
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Delayed free trade deals may go to Congress soon
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Reuters – Tackling the housing market’s woes is a “high priority” for President Barack Obama, a White House official said on Monday, but the aide would not say whether housing-related measures would be in Obama’s jobs speech later this week.
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Tackling housing woes priority for Obama: aide
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