WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. is less racially divided than it was when he took office, despite recent protests over police treatment of black people.
Tehran, YJC. Head of the Shiraz Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has stressed that the US president must follow Iranian leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei as his marja’.
North Korea called President Barack Obama "a monkey" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy "The Interview".
WASHINGTON, Dec 20, 2014 (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law America's annual defense policy bill, but he blasted provisions that ensure the Guantanamo Bay prison will stay open for now.
WASHINGTON, Dec 20, 2014 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Friday warned North Korea it would face retaliation for a crippling cyber attack on Sony Pictures over an irreverent film comedy that infuriated Pyongyang.
At Saban Forum, U.S. vice president urges Israel to stop settlement expansion, and to do more against 'vigilante justice' attacks against Palestinians.
Peaceful protests gave way to violence in the St. Louis suburb after the grand jury didn't charge Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown
WASHINGTON, Nov 22, 2014 (AFP) - Barack Obama has extended the combat role for US troops in Afghanistan for another year, in a classified order he signed in recent weeks, the New York Times reported Friday.
World leaders on Sunday prepared to release details of a plan aimed at injecting life into the listless global economy, with infrastructure investment and the lowering of trade barriers flagged as key components of the initiative.
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 15, 2014 (AFP) - Russia's Cold War-style standoff with the West sent a chill through G20 summit talks on Saturday, as an ambitious new push on climate change undermined host Australia's focus on action to heat up the world economy.
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 15, 2014 (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Saturday said the United States cannot "carry the world economy on our back" and urged G20 leaders to work harder to create jobs by revving up growth.
BERLIN, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday hailed a landmark agreement between the United States and China on reducing greenhouse emissions as a significant boost towards a global accord.
Months after the president stepped in to save the Yazidis from genocide, the airstrikes have slowed to a trickle. Supplies have dried up. And ISIS is closing in on Mount Sinjar again.
In August, the Obama administration intervened to stop what it called a pending genocide of Yazidi minorities in Iraq. Now the U.S. is gone, but the genocide continues.