Posts Tagged ‘president’

OIL LEAK: President Obama pledges maximum efforts

HOMELAND SECURITY INVOLVED President Barack Obama has said “every single available resource” of government will be deployed to help contain the Gulf Coast oil leak. Up to 5,000 barrels of oil a day may be now be leaking into the water after last week’s explosion on a BP-operated rig,...
April 29th, 2010 | NATION | Read More

RENEWED PLEDGE: TO Clean Energy sources, Obama

President Obama joined other world leaders Tuesday in calling for immediate and substantive steps to combat climate change, saying failure to act now would bring “irreversible catastrophe.” Speaking to a special summit on climate change at the United Nations, Obama pledged the full commitment...
September 22nd, 2009 | WELLNESS | Read More

MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM: Shelved in Europe

US President Barack Obama has shelved plans for controversial bases in Poland and the Czech Republic in a major overhaul of missile defence in Europe. The bases are to be scrapped after a review of the threat from Iran. Mr Obama said there would be a “proven, cost-effective” system using...
September 17th, 2009 | NATION | Read More

HEALTH CARE REFORM: Moment of truth has arrived

IMPORTANCE OF BABY STEPS President Barack Obama has said he intends “to get something done this year” on healthcare reform. In an interview for ABC News ahead of his key speech to Congress, he said he was open to new ideas and would not be “rigid or ideological”. Mr Obama said...
September 9th, 2009 | COMMUNITY | Read More

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Tough road ahead, vows action on Health Care

TIME FOR ACTION In a country of deep divisions and ideological extremes, impressions of Obama around here fall somewhere in the middle. Eight months into his presidency, he’s not the hero who will fix all the problems, nor is he the villain who caused them. Instead, he is seen as a bridge that...
September 7th, 2009 | NATION | Read More

FIRST WOMAN MINISTER: Since Iran’s Islamic Revolution

MARZIEH VAHID DASTJERDI Iranian MPs have approved the first woman minister in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic. She was one of 18 nominations for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s new cabinet to be approved. Two other women were among three rejected nominees. The president’s choice...
September 3rd, 2009 | WORLD | Read More

EX-PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT: Corazon Aquino deis at 76

'PEOPLE POWER MOVEMENT' VOICE Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, whose “People Power” movement pushed out longtime strongman Ferdinand Marcos less than three years after her husband’s assassination, has died at age 76, her family announced Saturday. Aquino, the first...
August 1st, 2009 | WORLD | Read More

RACIAL POLITICS: Sobering up on beer

DIFFICULT ISSUE, SIMPLE SOLUTION President Obama sat down for a beer at the White House Thursday night with a top African-American professor and the police officer who arrested him earlier this month. They were joined by a previously unannounced guest, Vice President Joe Biden. Sgt. James Crowley and...
July 30th, 2009 | NATION | Read More