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President Barack Obama, interviewed in Moscow today, said that his vice president’s assertion that Israel is a sovereign nation and cannot be told what to do, or not to do, about Iran’s nuclear program is “absolutely not” a green light for a preemptive attack against Tehran’s nuke plants.

“Absolutely not,” Obama told CNN’s Ed Henry. “And [...]

A lot of Americans aren’t ready to let go of the resigning governor, stepping down later this month with 18 months left in her term, citing the “insane” business of dealing with consuming ethics complaints back home in the aftermath of her brief stint on a national stage as the Republican 2008 vice presidential nominee. Palin [...]

President Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, founded with the slavery of Africans and perpetuating legalized racial discrimination well into the 20th Century, addressed the parliament of Ghana today in his first journey to Africa as president.
Obama called this time “a new moment of promise.”
He told an intimately personal tale of [...]

President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan and travelling through Ghana today, was asked what Africa means to him – “Is it half of you?”
“Well, no, I don’t think it would be fair to say it was half,” the president told an interviewer for Sky News. “You know, I never lived here. I didn’t [...]

President Barack Obama, presiding over “the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression,” has returned to the United States from the most recent of many international journeys with a message: Confidence that the U.S. “will weather this storm.”
In an Op-ed essay appearing in newspapers today, the president says this of the $787-billion economic stimulus [...]

United States President Barack Obama says it is going to be a long road to recovery on the back of dire unemployment figures.
Almost another half a million jobs in the US economy were lost in the month of June, pushing the unemployment rate to 9.5 per cent – the highest in 26 years and still [...]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rejected criticism from US President Barack Obama that his thinking is still influenced by Cold War attitudes.
Mr Obama makes his first visit to Moscow as president on Monday, with talks scheduled with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and Mr Putin.
The US President has used an Associated Press interview to [...]

South Korean police are investigating a series of cyber attacks which disabled major websites, including those of the president and the Defence Ministry.
Unknown hackers attacked 25 South Korean websites, shutting them down for several hours.
The Defence Ministry says websites were flooded by traffic at the same time, which overwhelmed the server.
South Korean media is reporting [...]

The White House, State Department and Pentagon websites were among those targeted in a coordinated cyber-attack which also crippled sites in South Korea, computer security experts said.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that US government and private sector websites had come under so-called “distributed denial of service” (DDoS) attack, but declined to identify any of [...]

US President Barack Obama has promised the Pope that he will try to reduce the number of abortions in the United States.
President Barack Obama has had his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.
A Vatican spokesman says they discussed the “defence and the promotion of life” and that the President has promised the [...]