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US Senate votes to start Obama health drive debate
The US Senate, torn along party lines, voted to formally launch debate on historic legislation to enact President Barack Obama's signature drive to remake US health care, handing him a win for now. The 100-seat chamber's two independents joined all...
Tags: Senate, Barack Obama, allnews, Washington, George Voinovich, George Harrison, Health care reform in the United States, Punahou School alumni, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics, 111th United States Congress, Social Issues, senator, Robert Gibbs
Private security companies will leave Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 days ago
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President Karzai told private security companies that they would have to cease operating in Afghanistan within the next two years. In a move that will be hugely popular with ordinary Afghans who resent the presence of thousands of heavily armed private...
Tags: Iranian, United States, Hamid Karzai, U.S, Afghanistan, Nato, France, China, private security, Afghan Karzai, Kabul, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Makhmalbaf, International reaction to the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Iranian election protests, Iranian presidential election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Politics, War in Afghanistan, Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, Barack Obama, Punahou School alumni, Robert Gibbs, Economy of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear program of Iran, Iran, Nuclear proliferation, Iran ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Politics of Iran
Washington Sketch: In China, Obama leaves more questions than he takes
Shanghai :: China | 3 days ago
Credibility Listening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu. One is the leader of a great democracy...But as the two men faced reporters in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Obama deferred to the wishes of President...
Tags: Obama, White House, China, George W. Bush, Shanghai, Robert Gibbs, Political positions of Barack Obama, International reaction to the United States presidential election, Barack Obama, United States presidential election, Punahou School alumni, Politics
Gibbs leads Pitt past Binghamton 71-46
Miami :: FL :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Kyle Busch and team owner Joe Gibbs and fined crew chief Steve Addington $25,000 after Busch's No.18 Toyota failed post-race inspection last Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Busch's car was too low and therefore did not meet the required height...
Tags: Matt Carkner, Kyle Busch, Binghamton, Pittsburgh, Obama, Miami, allnews, Steve Addington, Robert Gibbs
Plan to Expand Jewish Area in Jerusalem Angers U.S.
Israel said on Tuesday that it had advanced plans to expand a Jewish district of Jerusalem in territory that was captured in 1967 and that the Palestinians claim as part of their future state — a move likely to further complicate the Obama...
Tags: Jerusalem, Zionism, Israel&rsquo, Israeli settlement, Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian Aut &, Fertile Crescent, Gilo, Al-Aqsa Intifada, Israel, Robert Gibbs, Mahmoud Abbas, Carl Bildt, Benjamin Netanyahu, Saeb Erekat, Ian Kelly, Israeli, Arab-Israeli conflict, Politics
Security tight in Afghan for Karzai inauguration
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan authorities and international forces are securing the capital Kabul against Taliban attacks expected to coincide with the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, scheduled for Thursday. AFP. "There will be no air movements in or out, except...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, president hamid, Kabul, unveils anti, president barack, International Security Assistance Force, Taliban, Afghan presidential election, Politics, Pashtun people, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Karzai, Richard Holbrooke, Robert Gibbs, Political positions of Barack Obama, Presidents of the United Nations Security Council, Punahou School alumni, Stanley A. McChrystal, Karl Eikenberry, Luo people, Opposition to the War in Afghanistan, Joe Biden presidential campaign, Joe Biden, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Orￅﾫzgￄﾁn Province, Kevin Rudd, Osama bin Laden, Inter-Services Intelligence, Islamic terrorism, Islamism, Afghan Civil War
AfPak policy a mistake
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
Credibility Thirty years of instability and a stagnating economy have left the country enormously polarised. A small class of enormously rich people, drawing income and wealth from corruption and the production of poppies and the associated drug trade, are attempting...
Tags: Pakistan, Barack Obama, The Obama Administration, Afghanistan, India, United States, Islamabad, War in Afghanistan, Politics of Pakistan, Foreign relations of Pakistan, Politics, VoteVets.org, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, Protests against the War in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, Awami National Party, Hoti Pakistan, North-West Frontier Province, Peshawar, Pashtun people, Chief Ministers of North-West Frontier Province, Waziristan, Afghan National Army, Hamid Karzai, Taliban, Robert Gibbs, South Asia, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Multan, Iranian Plateau, Islamic republics
President's Top Lawyer Is Leaving White House
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Craig, the White House counsel, said Friday that he would resign at the beginning of next year, ending a sometimes tumultuous tenure as President Obama's top lawyer after 10 months at the center of some of the toughest issues and stormiest internal debates...
Tags: Greg Craig, Top White House, house counsel, Mr Obama, Mr. Obama, Barack Obama, Gregory Craig, Obama Guantanamo, Washington, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, White House Counsel, Politics, Pete Rouse, Rahm Emanuel, Political positions of Barack Obama, Presidency of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Lloyd Cutler, Michael E. Toner, Anita Dunn, Hillary Rodham Clinton, David Axelrod, Amy Klobuchar, Nussbaum, Bauer, Abner J. Mikva, Robert Gibbs, Kuwaiti captives in Guantanamo, Joe Biden, Punahou School alumni
No, Korea demands apology for sea fight
Seoul :: South Korea | 9 days ago
Credibility North Korea said Friday it wanted an apology from South Korea for firing at a patrol boat, setting it on fire. Local media said one North Korean sailor was killed and three wounded, The Washington Post reported. A protest from the head of the North Korean...
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Obama rejects Afghan options
U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday rejected all four options presented by advisers in Pakistan strategy discussions, a White House source said. The administration official told CNN the president was not satisfied with the proposals and specifically...
Tags: obama, Pashtun people, troops, War in Afghanistan, security, Politics, Barack Obama, War Conflict, U.S, Karl W. Eikenberry, Afghanistan, United States, CNN, Pakistan, The Washington Post, Lahore, allnews, Robert Gibbs, washington, Hamid Karzai
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