Not because it was brutal or clumsy or anticipated was there any less indignation about the Yankee judge from the South Florida District denying Ren Gonzlez, the Cuban anti-terrorist hero, the right to return to the heart of his family in Cuba after having served the unfair sentence imposed on ...

US President Barack Obama is following the drone war in Pakistan as an "election campaign strategy" for next year's presidential race in the United States, an investigative journalist tells Press TV." The president has personal political interests that certainly are aligned with the interest of the ...

While the bulk of Americans want to see U.S. forces leave Afghanistan, slight majorities have expressed disapproval with the withdrawal timetable and would prefer it to occur at a more rapid clip, according to a survey. U.S. President Barack Obama last week announced the removal of 10,000 U.S. ...

The chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, said that President Barack Obama's decisions on military drawdown from Afghanistan "incur more risk" than he was initially prepared to accept. Mullen made the remarks while testifying before the House of Representatives Armed ...

LONDON (APP) - A protest rally led by British member of Parliament Lord Nazir Ahmed and the British civil society was held Wednesday against US drone attacks in Pakistan as the visiting US President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of the UK Parliament. The largely attended gathering outside ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus address before Congress in many ways mirrored President Barack Obamas Middle East speech at the State Department May 19. Like Obama, Netanyahu first addressed the issues of Middle East democracy, then Iran (Obama spoke about Middle East economic support ...

LONDON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle met with Prince William and his new bride Catherine on the first day of their state visit to Britain on Tuesday. The royal newlyweds, fresh from their honeymoon in the Seychelles, greeted the Obamas in the grand 1844 room of Buckingham ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Condemning US Presidents statement, political and religious parties of the country termed it another attack on Pak sovereignty and demanded of the government to make clear its stance in this regard. Leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaquat Baloch and Farid Piracha, said that Pak ...

Obama's speech on the Middle East is extraordinary for its comprehensive dishonesty involving egregious deceit, lying by commission and lying by omission. Obama's ignoring of the US-imposed Muslim Genocide (about 12 million indigenous deaths in Palestine, Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan) is far worse ...

The outlines of President Obamas reelection strategy are becoming more distinct. Hell bet that the faltering recovery has enough momentum to sell, particularly to college-educated suburban independents. Hell find a way to cut a deal with Republicans on deficits that doesnt completely derail the ...

At a moment when the United States is involved in three wars and the world is afire with security challenges, it may well be that the trickiest conflict for Obama in 2011 is the one that is emerging between his own defense establishment and key members of his civilian national security team. The ...

U.S. President Barack Obama averaged 46.7 percent job approval in his second year in office, which places him on the low end compared with his predecessors since World War II, according to a new Gallup released Friday. Obama's job approval during his second full year in office, which spans Jan. 20, ...

KARACHI - Bullish rally was witnessed on Monday with rising volumes in scrips across the board on global commodity prices run. Analysts said that rise in local cement, cotton, sugar and oil prices led the rally. Positive statements on Pakistans role as ally in the anti-terror war by US President in ...

Mr. Vice President, Madame Speaker, Mr. Prime Minister, Members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and most of all, the people of India. I thank you for the great honor of addressing the representatives of more than one billion Indians and the worlds largest democracy. I bring the greetings and ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Fo-rmer president Pervez Musharraf on Friday voiced disappointment that US President Barack Obama was not stopping in Pakistan on the sidelines of his maiden visit to India. I would take it as a disappointment, yes, indeed, Musharraf told MSNBC television. Musharraf also ...

US President Barack Obama's polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a 19-year-old woman more than 30 years his junior. Malik Obama, 52, told a Kenya news station that the teen quit school and wanted to get married. He appeared on video taken by a hidden camera, although he knew he was talking ...

Egypt's state-run newspaper Al-Ahram has come under fire for doctoring a photograph to suggest that President Hosni Mubarak had led US President Barack Obama and other Middle East leaders into historic peace talks in the White House earlier this month. The picture showed the Egyptian president ...

There is no discussion to add Pakistan in the US President Barack Obama's itinerary when he visits India and other Asian nations in November, the White House has said. "I haven't heard any discussion of that," White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said when asked if there was any chance ...

U. S. Republican chairman Michael Steele faced heavy critcism including calls for his resignation on Friday, after saying the Afghanistan war was a "war of Obama's choosing," media reported. At a Republican fundraiser in Connecticut, Steele was videotaped while criticizing President Barack Obama ...

KARACHI - A three-member delegation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) led by MQM leader and Federal Minister for overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar on Wednesday visited the White House and met Mr David Lipton, US President Advisor for Economical Affairs. In a statement issued from MQM Office, ...

WASHINGTON - The passage of the landmark healthcare reform had no apparent effect on U.S. President Barack Obama's job-approval rating, poll results released Friday indicate. The Harris Poll found 41 percent of Americans give Obama a thumbs-up on the job he is doing and 59 percent a thumbs-down. ...

TEHRAN (AFP/Reuters) Irans supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned on Sunday US President Barack Obama for issuing what he said was a threat of a nuclear attack against the Islamic republic. He (Obama) has implicitly threatened Iranians with nuclear weapons, Khamenei was quoted by state ...

A conservative American newspaper has criticized President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), suggesting that he is a voice of radical Islam. Rashad Hussain, an American of Indian origin who is Deputy Associate Counsel at the White House, ...

President Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, posing a threat to one of his most important foreign policy initiatives. Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in a speech ...

People in the Indian-occupied Kashmir are disappointed in President Barack Obama because the US leader has not engaged on Kashmir other that to say recently that the region's fate is in the hands of India and Pakistan alone, according to a dispatch in The Washington Post. "Many Kashmiris celebrated ...

Seldom can a speech be called historic before it is delivered, but the one that President Obama will make tomorrow night already qualifies. In one address at the West Point military academy, the Commander-in-Chief of US Armed Forces must convince Afghanistan, Pakistan and his own generals that his ...

President Barack Obama's decision to postpone responding to the military request for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan the after next month's run-off election is heightening tensions between the White House and Pentagon. Robert Gates, the secretary of defence, denied there was any rift over ...

President Obamas Pakistan policy was in disarray yesterday after Islamabad raised objections to the stringent terms attached to his new $7.5 billion aid package. Officials of the two countries were locked in last-minute negotiations on how to salvage the Kerry-Lugar Bill, which triples US civilian ...

The world's media was divided on Saturday after the shock award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, with some calling it a victory for ideals and others condemning it as deeply politicised. The prize-giving committee in Oslo named Obama the winner of the prestigious prize on ...

Officials insisted it was not a crisis meeting, but President Barack Obama and members of his cabinet had plenty to worry about as they ended a two-day retreat devoted to discussions of the administrations faltering progress. Plummeting opinion poll ratings, divisions among Democrats about ...