November 24, 2011
The supercommittee's failure will trigger automatic cuts in the defence budget and domestic spending. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP It took a fictional jury of “12 Angry Men” 96 minutes to agree on a verdict of not guilty. It took “12 good people,” as supercommittee co-chairman Jeb Hensarling referred to them, three months and countless hours [...]
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September 27, 2011
File picture shows Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meeting with then finance minister Alexei Kudrin in May. The Kremlin on Tuesday faced warnings of trouble for the Russian economy after President Dmitry Medvedev ousted his finance minister in the most bitter public clash within the elite for years. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who had been [...]
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September 9, 2011
US President Barack Obama Thursday challenged Republicans to halt a "political circus" and immediately pass a bigger than expected $447 billion jobs plan he said would jolt the "stalled" economy. Calling for unity and an end to a "political circus" US President Barack Obama told Republicans to immediately pass a $447 billion jobs plan to [...]
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July 31, 2011
Anti-corruption advocates and international experts hope a new president and National Assembly will get tough on graft and economic problems A boy walks with water buffaloes in Lao Cai Province’s Sapa District in northwest Vietnam. Anti-corruption advocates and international analysts hope that Vietnam’s new leadership will get tough on graft and economic problems. Le [...]
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July 15, 2011
Vietnamese boxer Luu Thi Duyen wins the women’s 57kg gold at the President's Cup in Jakarta. Vietnamese boxers have returned home from the President’s Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, carrying five medals, including two golds. The 21st annual contest ended Friday July 8 with two silvers and one bronze also in Vietnamese pockets. Luu Thi Duyen [...]
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July 12, 2011
US President Barack Obama chats with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet at the 18th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Japan in 2010. US President Barack Obama has expressed his intention to visit Vietnam in the near future, the president told Vietnamese ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong who just extended his tenure there. Â Cuong met President [...]
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March 10, 2011
A relative of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, seen here in November 2010, has been killed by international forces, according to Karzai’s brother and Afghan officials. A relative of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been killed by international forces, Karzai’s brother and officials said Thursday. The president’s brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, told AFP that a relative, [...]
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March 2, 2011
President Barack Obama responds to a question during a news conference at the White House in Washington February 15, 2011. The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to extend government funding for two more weeks, a move that would avert a federal shutdown but do nothing to resolve a bitter debate over the federal budget. [...]
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February 27, 2011
An armed anti goverment fighter stands at the last checkpoint of Brega, 200 kms west of Benghazi. President Barack Obama has called on Moamer Kadhafi to “leave now,” declaring that the Libyan leader had lost his right to rule after attacking his own people to put down a popular uprising. Obama’s most direct demand yet [...]
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February 8, 2011
The New York Stock Exchange is seen in 2010. President Barack Obama warmly courted top US executives, pledging to scrap regulation and lay the groundwork for innovation in a bid to “make America the best place on Earth to do business.” But he also stressed the “mutual responsibilities” of business and government in his speech [...]
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