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Obama calls for new beginning between US, Muslims
President Barack Obama sought a ”new beginning” between the United States and the Muslim world on Thursday.
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Obama Cairo speech aims to mend rift with Muslims
US President Barack Obama was in Egypt on Thursday to deliver an address that will be crucial to his efforts to repair US ties with the Muslim world.
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Obama wants alliance with Afghan, Pakistani leader
Barack Obama will urge the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan to put aside mistrust and join Washington in an alliance against Islamic extremists.
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Obama closes Guantánamo, names conflict envoys
Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the closing of Guantánamo prison and named veteran trouble-shooters for the Middle East and Afghanistan.
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Selebi faces the axe
A media report on on Wednesday claims that National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi is about to be fired.
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Obama presses US economic rescue
With the US economic outlook darkening, Barack Obama went to Congress two weeks before taking office to try to entice support for a stimulus package.
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Poland and US sign shield deal, anger Moscow
The United States and Poland signed a deal on Wednesday to station parts of a US missile defence shield on Polish soil.
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US: Russia military actions a ‘dangerous game’
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Moscow on Monday that it was playing a dangerous game with the US and its Nato allies.
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Rice in Georgia to secure peace plan
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Georgia on Friday to show Washington’s support for its embattled ally.
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Humourist Art Buchwald dies at 81
Pulitzer Prize-winning humourist Art Buchwald, who chronicled nightlife in postwar Paris, took aim at Washington’s powerful, and merrily cheated death for months in a hospice, has died at age 81. Buchwald, who had kidney failure, refused dialysis early last year and entered a hospice expecting to die within weeks.
