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Obama praises Israeli PM Netanyahu for accepting Egyptian ceasefire plan

Source: Guardian Unlimited, Nov 21 2012, 1:08pm CST

Obama spoke to Netanyahu to express US support for Israel, and committed the US to providing extra funding for the Iron Dome. Photograph: Keystone/Zuma/Rex Features Barack Obama heaped praise on the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyah ...

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Obamas to Travel to Africa in June

Source: Wall Street Journal Blogs  |   May 20 2013, 7:47pm CDT

By Colleen McCain Nelson President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will travel to Africa next month, making stops in Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, the White House said Monday. The trip will undersc ...

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Obama Couples Praise for Burmese Leader With Warning Against Violence

Source: The New York Times  |   May 20 2013, 7:46pm CDT

WASHINGTON — President Obama encouraged the wave of reform that has transformed the one-time pariah state of Myanmar into an emerging touchstone of change in Asia, but pointedly warned the country’s visiting leader on Monday that vi ...

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25 weeks ago


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"From the worsening civil war in Syria to the security vacuum in Libya, and from Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons to heightened tensions in Iraq, what happens in the Middle East will impact America's vital national security interests for the foreseeable future, and stronger, smarter American leadership is desperately needed. There is no pivoting away from that fact."


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Israel questions Gaza boy’s death

Source: Irish Times  |   May 20 2013, 7:39pm CDT

The television footage of Jamal el-Dura together with his 12-year-old son Muhammad, crouching in fear as bullets flew by, became the most powerful image of the Palestinian uprising in 2000. The father of Muhammad el-Dura, a Palestinian child ki ...

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White House hosts Thein Sein in symbolic gesture of support

Source: China Daily  |   May 20 2013, 7:30pm CDT

Previously barred Myanmar leader to meet Obama and woo business Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to supp ...

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41 minutes ago

Complete Text of Israel’s Report on the Muhammad al-Dura Video

Source: The New York Times  |   May 20 2013, 7:24pm CDT

France 2/Agence France-Presse A frame from video shot in Gaza in September, 2000, showed Jamal al-Dura attempting to shield his son Muhammad, 12, during a gun battle between Israelis and Palestinians. As my colleague Isab ...

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White House helps fuel its own political controversies

Source: Washington Examiner   |   May 20 2013, 7:22pm CDT

The White House on Monday acknowledged that top officials there knew a month ago that the IRS was being investigated for targeting conservative groups, but offered no apology for the Justice Department's spying on a seco ...

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Obama Voices Concern Over Hizbullah Involvement in Syria

Source: Arutz Sheva  |   May 20 2013, 7:20pm CDT

U.S. President Barack Obama told Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Monday that he was concerned about the involvement of Lebanese Hizbullah terrorists in the fight in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad. "President Obama expressed his apprec ...

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White House Says It Didnt Loop Obama In on I.R.S. Inquiry

Source: Democratic Underground  |   May 20 2013, 7:03pm CDT

Source: new york times White House officials were first notified on April 16 about an investigation into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups and discussed its potential findings with the Treasury Dep ...

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President Obama Pledges to Help After Oklahoma Tornado

Source: KSTP | Minneapolis & St. Paul  |   May 20 2013, 7:01pm CDT

President Barack Obama has called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to express his concern about a monstrous tornado that wreaked havoc in the Oklahoma City suburbs. The White House says Obama told the governor that he's directed the government and the Federal ...

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