Romney expected to pick Paul Ryan as running mate
White House candidate Mitt Romney will announce Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate later on Saturday, US media has reported.
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Mitt Romney fumbles foreign affair
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been lambasted for his embarrassing gaffes during his visit to the United Kingdom.
Mitt Romney’s London visit is a test of his foreign policy acumen
Romney arrived in London pursued by calls to use this overseas tour to define a foreign policy that amounts to more than criticising the president.
Obama claims Romney is the problem, not the solution
Republican Mitt Romney has called for the US president to apologise following Obama’s questioning of Romney’s time as a private equity executive.
Chavez: Venezuela is no threat to anyone
Hugo Chavez has denied that Venezuela is a threat to the US, after Barack Obama was accused for playing down the risk posed by the socialist leader.
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Drones torpedo Obama support
A survey of global opinion about Obama shows large numbers of non-Americans feel badly let down by the man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.
Obama stresses that US economy is ‘not doing fine’
Speaking to reporters, Obama admitted that while corporate profits were strong small businesses were having a tough time getting financing.
Obama will survive Democrat defeat
Organised labour has learnt a valuable lesson in its challenge against Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker, writes Gary Younge.
Obama cracks the digital whip
On the online political battlefield, US president Barack Obama beats his rival for the hands down, write Ed Pilkington & Amanda Michel.
Obama supports gay marriage
In a bold step the American president has openly stated his full support for same-sex unions.
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Donald ducks: No Trump on the stump in 2012
Real estate mogul Donald Trump has announced he will not seek the Republican nod to challenge President Barack Obama in the 2012 US elections.
Big money on midterm rout
Court decision lets Corporate America gang up
on floundering Democrats on the sly.
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Report on Obama Senate seat scandal out soon
A report, due out on Tuesday, is expected to clear US President-elect Barack Obama’s staff of any improper dealings with the governor of Illinois.
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Accessible and inspirational
Thabo Mohlala reviews Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama by Garen Thomas.
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Bush hounded till bitter end
US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.
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Obama makes historic White House visit
United States president-elect Barack Obama visited the White House on Monday for his first post-election meeting with President George Bush.
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This victory belongs to you
The acceptance speech of Barack Obama, president elect of the United States, in Chicago, the day after he won the election.
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Yes, we (also) can
Like the victory speech of our founding president Nelson Mandela in 1994, the acceptance speech of US president elect Barack Obama caused celebration.
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A cow called Obama
Fredrick Mugira visits rural Uganda to find out what country folk think of the US presidential candidate.
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‘He’s the other. It’s in the Bible’
There is nothing unusual about mixed-race people in the South, although in decades past there was no ambiguity about the subject.
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Carnival in Kisumu
For Kenyans, Obama has put their country on the world map, writes Nyokabi Baiya.
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‘He is my Mandela’
‘Dem youthboy defied every order and turned a senator’, says a Cameroonian reggae song that captures the country’s rapture with Obama.
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Borrow, buy, burn, bail out
With the United States election just around the corner, who’d want to be in the shoes of either front-runner Barack Obama or John McCain?
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Pouts, pecs and power suits
Millions of Americans aren’t just redoing their hair for Palin — they’re taking off their clothes too.
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Obama’s face — Obama’s race
The radicalism of Barack Obama lies not in his policies but in his face, writes Mark Danner.
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Africans drunk on Obama
But a greater lesson lies in the US election,
writes C Don Adinuba.
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Sounds like us, looks like us?
Obama may have African roots, but Burundians disagree on his allegiances to the continent, writes Haydee Bangerezako.
Blurring the foreign policy lines
Obama and McCain differ on the uses of American power, but who is the hawk and who is the dove, asks David E Sanger.
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The day I was proud to be American
It wasn’t easy. I didn’t get my absentee ballot in time so I called the consulate in Johannesburg to see what I could do.
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Reviving the American dream
Not long ago it was fashionable to say that American elections didn’t matter much to the rest of the world. After eight years of George W Bush…
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Going down Obama boulevard
Obama’s appeal rivals soccer in Uganda – and he’s had at least one road named after him.
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Movies in Madagascar
“We are longing to have Obama shirts or any kinds of things about him,” says Jeannine Ralaitafika, who sells shirts in Antananarivo.
