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News Source: ITN
| 5 months ago
US First Lady Michelle Obama has spent the day in London on a private visit with daughters Sasha and Malia. Mrs Obama stayed on in Paris for sightseeing on Sunday and then travelled to the UK capital after her husband, President Barack Obama,...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama's national security adviser says allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military is in the early discussions. But retired Marine Gen James Jones says it's very preliminary in a very busy administration. Jones said on...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| 5 months ago
Quoting a Quran passage to "speak always the truth," Obama set aside diplomatic niceties in a speech in Cairo demanding that Israel stop building Jewish West Bank settlements that antagonize Palestinians, that Palestinians work for peace and accept...
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News Source: Trinidad Express
| 5 months ago
For every one of his professed policies which appall them ("preventive detention", eg) come two of which they cannot help but approve (the decision to close Guantanamo, eg, or his measures designed to spur trade unionisation). It's wearying, this "'...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama almost split up in 2000 when his career was in trouble and she was a new mother, a British reporter says. Richard Wolffe, who covered the 2008 presidential campaign for Newsweek, has published "...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama says he would like nothing more than a leisurely stroll through Paris and a picnic with his wife, but his busy schedule doesn't lend itself to long vacations. Obama met with French President Nicholas Sarkozy on Saturday ahead...
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News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 5 months ago
With world attention focused on Barack Obama’s “surrender to Islam” speech in Cairo, the Anointed One took the opportunity to establish a new, meaningless position within the bureaucracy that is the White House. A new “pay czar” joins a...
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News Source: The Electric News Paper
| 5 months ago
Backing Palestine Unlike most US presidents, Mr Obama made strong comments about Israel's occupation of Palestine. He said Israel must curtail its expansion of West bank settlements and recognise Palestinian aspirations for statehood. He also...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
More than anything else, some influential figures said Friday that they could not look past Obama's affirmation of the "unbreakable" bond between the U.S. and Israel, and they took that as a sign that nothing had changed. "We have witnessed that...
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News Source: Macleans
| 5 months ago
He is to meet Saturday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and help commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Allies' D-Day invasion in France...His wife Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha flew to the City of Light to join him.