Barack Obama

...14 years. At a meeting with Asian leaders last week in Singapore, President Barack Obama told the gathering - Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein included - that the junta must free Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. At the same...

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...said on Monday. U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed in July to work on a new treaty that would cut their deployed strategic nuclear arsenals to between 1,500 and 1,675 warheads. The current Strategic...

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...host a lunch in honor of Prime Minister Singh and Mrs. Kaur at the State Department President Obama meets with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office President Obama and Vice President Biden meet with Secretary of Defense Gates in the...

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...in her private dining room at the State Department. With two aides at her side, Clinton recalled the span of ten days during which then-elect President Obama courted her for the position. "He kept calling her and calling her and, at the end...

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...officials. By contrast, Obama's major addresses in Ghana and Cairo were widely carried by regional media, an effect that was echoed by online outreach efforts coordinated through the White House and the State Department. There is little...

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...has expressed confidence the deal would be done well before the August 2010 deadline. Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama had "discussed their mutual commitment to implementing the US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative", a...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Department said on Tuesday.

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Sending more American civilians to Afghanistan is part of President Barack Obama's strategy review as he seeks to turn around the eight-year war and improve the performance of the Karzai government while reining in a culture of corruption.

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