China on Saturday urged the United States to immediately withdraw a decision of arranging United States President Barack Obama to meet with the Dalai Lama. “The issue regarding Tibet concerns China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and we firmly oppose any foreign official to meet with the Dalai Lama in any form,” said Foreign Ministry [...]
President Obama said today he released new copies of his Hawaii birth certificate because the flap over his birthplace threatens to overshadow the “enormous challenges” facing the nation. “We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers,” Obama said. View the birth certificate here. Obama [...]
Obama is likely to sign the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy Wednesday, and may hold a news conference this week, spokesman Robert Gibbs said today. Officials have discussed a presidential news conference after the Senate wraps up its end-of-the-year business, including the proposed arms cut treaty with Russia — but no [...]
President Obama later today will sign an $858 billion bill extending for two years all Bush- era tax cuts, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The package was approved by the House 277-148 late yesterday. The White House this morning was still working out details of the signing. Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said she didn’t yet [...]
The US has stopped the momentum of the Taliban in Afghanistan and will begin withdrawing troops from the country next summer, an Obama administration review said today. Taliban momentum has been “arrested in much of the country and reversed in some key areas, although these gains remain fragile and reversible”, the five-page summary said. The [...]
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