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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 [...]

The British government has defended its strategy in Afghanistan, a day after eight British soldiers were killed there.
A total of 184 British troops have now been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2002.
British foreign secretary David Miliband has rejected claims that British forces do not have the right equipment and says [...]

The Australian Crime Commission has won access to the medical records of eight Indigenous female patients under the age of 16 despite concerns by a health service that it breaches confidentiality.
As part of the federal intervention in the Northern Territory, the Crime Commission was seeking access to the detailed health records of eight underage girls, [...]

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement.
Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. [...]

On the eve of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday celebration and the approach of his own historic swearing-in as president, Barack Obama stood Sunday in front of the Lincoln Memorial, evoked the country’s heroes and heritage and told the nation that “the dream of our founders will live on in time.”
Obama spoke during [...]

Reversing course, Senate Democrats grudgingly accepted embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s hand-selected Senate appointee, Roland Burris, as they sought to break an impasse over President-elect Barack Obama’s former seat.
The new Illinois senator is expected to be sworn into office later this week.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois made [...]