Dick Cheney: Obama increases terror threat
Monday, March 16. Former vice president Dick Cheney has said that Barack Obama's decisions to close Guantanamo Bay and outlaw certain interrogation
techniques will mean America becomes more vulnerable to terrorist attack. His comments are… [continued]
Robots are helping us fight the war on terror 
Bush aide Karl Rove to testify before Congress
Obama takes on the Mexican drug cartels
Thursday, March 12. As if he doesn't have enough domestic issues to deal with, Barack Obama is being forced to confront the escalating drugs war in Mexico that
threatens to spill across the US border.… [continued]
People: Russian it girl loses billions
In pictures: Mexico's drug war
Lawless Mexico in the grip of drugs runners
Congress eases US restrictions on Cuba
Wednesday, March 11. The Democratically controlled US House of Congress has voted to ease restrictions on US dealings with Cuba. New legislation wrapped up in a $410bn spending bill
allows Cuban-Americans to visit the island… [continued]
Obama sends open letter to Iran
Obama indicates he may be ready to talk to moderate Taliban
Obama and Clinton send envoys to Syria
Barack Obama’s letter to Russia piles pressure on Iran
Tuesday, March 3. In a secret letter to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama has offered to halt plans to build a missile defence
shield in central Europe if Russia helps America curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions. In his first, rather guarded response, Medvedev said that although Russia… [continued]
Hamas ask John Kerry to take a letter to Barack Obama
Barack Obama drafts an open letter to Iran
Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to talk to America
Brown to DC: Will they remember his name?
Monday, March 2. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is flying out to America today to visit Barack Obama for the first time since he became
President in January. The Washington appearance is a major coup… [continued]
The Mole: Brown leaves Harman swinging in the wind
Opinion digest: the best UK comment and analysis
Barack Obama…George Bush…What’s the difference?
Pundits love upbeat Obama address
Wednesday, February 25. Addressing a joint session of Congress for the first time since he became President last month, Barack Obama yesterday warned that the United
States faced a "day of reckoning". He arrived in… [continued]
Read the full text of Obama’s speech
People: Bobby Jindal fluffs his lines during Republicans' response
Barack Obama... George Bush... What’s the difference?
Wednesday, February 18. His supporters hope his counter-terrorism policies will be better thought out and more transparent than those of George Bush, but
Barack Obama's decision to send a further 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan has been viewed with suspicion by many political pundits. Others say that Obama has not… [continued]
Pakistani villagers get a taste of Barack Obama's 'tough love'
Cockburn: Can Obama really steer American into calmer water?
Ahmadinejad ready to talk to US - but is he just buying time?
Tuesday, February 10. The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that he is willing to open talks with American president Barack Obama.
Speaking amid events to celebrate the anniversary of the Iranian revolution 30 years ago, after which America and Iran broke off relations, Ahmadinejad echoed Obama's calls for "mutual… [continued]
The Obama administration drafts an open letter to Iran
Should Obama pay a visit to Tehran?
Before talks, Iran demands an apology
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