Washington: The US on Wednesday warned of greater international action to stop the crackdown by Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria and said neither the Syrian people nor the global community accepted his government's legitimacy any more. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the Assad regime is already facing growing isolation and sanctions that are choking off its resources. "We urge Syria's few remaining supporters in the international community...
03:54 AM, Dec 22, 2011
London: US President Barack Obama who relied heavily on the social media to boost his presidential campaign in 2008, has banned his daughters from using Facebook, a media report said on Saturday. The 'First Social Media President' said it "does not make much sense" to put the most private details of his family life on public view. He doesn't want "strangers knowing" their family business, UK's tabloid Mail Online reported....
12:21 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his policy on Iran amid criticism from the Republican party, saying Tehran is more isolated than ever. Obama said Iran is more isolated than ever and international community is more unified than ever in imposing toughest sanctions on it. Obama said at a White House news conference that his administration "has systematically imposed the toughest sanctions on Iran ever". He said when...
02:02 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Tehran: Iranian authorities blocked a website hours after it was launched by the US State Department to be a "virtual embassy" reaching out to people in the Islamic Republic. "In accordance with the cybercrime law, access to this website is not possible," read a notice to anyone inside Iran trying to visit iran.usembassy.gov. The semi-official Fars news agency commented on the blocking of the US website, saying, "A decisive reaction...
10:06 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New York: The White House has ruled out US President Barack Obama offering "formal condolences" to Pakistan over the killing of its 24 soldiers in a NATO strike, as suggested by his top diplomat in Islamabad in a desperate bid to salvage deteriorating ties, a media report said on Thursday. "The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences - at least for now - to...
02:26 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Washington: Breaking its silence on memogate', the White House said the matter was Pakistan's internal issue and noted that it worked closely with former Pakistani Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani, who had resigned as a fall out of this controversy. "We see this very much as an internal issue, relative to Pakistan. So in that respect, it's the Pakistani Government that we'll work through any questions associated with this," the...
10:51 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Washington: The US has demanded that Iran must cooperate with investigations to bring to book those involved in an alleged plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador to the US. "Iran must provide law enforcement assistance and cooperate with the countries who are working to bring to justice all those who participated in the planning, sponsoring, organisation and attempted execution of the attack," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Her statement came...
09:16 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Pittsburgh: A 21-year-old man who called US President Barack Obama the "devil" and "anti-Christ" was charged on Thursday with trying to assassinate the US leader by opening fire on the White House with an assault rifle. Obama and his wife, Michelle, were not in Washington at the time of the shooting on Friday night and no one was hurt. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez of Idaho Falls, Idaho, appeared before a federal magistrate...
08:56 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Washington: An advertising campaign that depicts US President Barack Obama kissing two male world leaders on the mouth drew a critical response from the White House on Thursday. "The White House has a longstanding policy disapproving of the use of the president's name and likeness for commercial purposes," said White House Spokesman Eric Schultz. The "Unhate" campaign for Italian clothing firm Benetton showed various world leaders kissing, including Obama lip-locked...
03:33 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Indonesia: The United States announced a massive order for Boeing jets from Indonesia's largest domestic airline, Lion Air, to be showcased as US President Barack Obama winds up an Asia-Pacific tour. The sale of 230 short-haul 737 jets, worth $21.7 billion, is the largest commercial order in Boeing's history, toppling a previous record set just days ago as the industry taps in to relentless demand in emerging economies. Obama will...
02:46 AM, Nov 18, 2011
UN started a campaign to mobilise 150000 teenagers in the US to file a petition the White House to fight against child marriages worldwide. ...
09:21 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Washington: There was security breach in Washington DC when shots were fired near the White House sending the state into panic, sources said on Saturday. Secret Service officers said they saw two cars fleeing at high speed. One of the cars, a Honda, was eventually found abandoned. An AK 47 was found in it. A suspect was also spotted running away - he or she remains at large. No injury...
09:05 AM, Nov 12, 2011
New Orleans: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, seen as a rising star in the Republican Party, won re-election on Saturday as voters largely ignored his nine poorly funded challengers. "You've chosen to give me another four years as your governor," he told supporters at his Baton Rouge campaign headquarters less than an hour after polls closed. "We've got a lot more work to do over these next four years." With more...
11:04 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Washington: Even as their killer drones strike at ranking members of the al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, US officials secretly met leaders of the group this summer in a Persian Gulf country, in an effort to draw them into talks on winding down the war. Though Washington has publicly scorned the group which it has blamed for bringing a new level of violence in the Afghan insurgency, Wall Street Journal said...
02:54 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Washington: The US government on Friday announced steps to clamp down on who can access classified information, seeking to avert another WikiLeaks-scale breach of military documents and diplomatic cables. The presidential order requires US agencies to appoint senior people to prevent and detect breaches and creates a task force to monitor potential wrongdoing by government officials, bureaucrats, diplomats or soldiers handling classified data. That task force, to be headed by...
08:15 AM, Oct 09, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama says demonstrators protesting against Wall Street and economic inequality are expressing the frustrations of the American public. Speaking at a White House news conference, Obama says he understands the public's concerns about how the nation's financial system works. And he says Americans see Wall Street as an example of the financial industry not always following the rules. However, Obama says the US must have a...
09:26 PM, Oct 06, 2011
Washington: Piling up pressure on Pakistan, the US has asked its authorities, particularly ISI, to sever ties with the Haqqani network of Taliban and demanded "strong and immediate action" against the outfit. However, the US insisted that there was no permanent breach in bilateral relations and lines of communication were open. "It is critical that the government of Pakistan break any links they have, and take strong and immediate action...
12:46 PM, Sep 24, 2011
California: President Barack Obama is again turning to a social networking website to host a town hall meeting. The White House says Obama will be in the San Francisco Bay area city of Mountain View on Monday to answer questions about jobs and the economy that are posted to the professional network LinkedIn. The White House announced the meeting on Tuesday. It did not disclose an exact time for the...
09:41 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama, in a populist step designed to appeal to voters, will propose a "Buffett Tax" on people making more than $1 million a year as part of his deficit recommendations to Congress on Monday. Such a proposal, among suggestions to a congressional supercommittee expected to seek up to $3 trillion in deficit savings over 10 years, would appeal to his Democratic base ahead of the 2012...
09:27 AM, Sep 18, 2011
Washington: Sobered by developments like the debt crisis in Europe and continued troubles in housing at home, the White House has grown less optimistic about economic growth and jobs. The White House budget office forecast on Thursday reported that the unemployment rate won't fall below 6 per cent until 2017 - two years later than it predicted in February, when President Obama delivered his 2012 budget proposal to Congress. The...
11:37 AM, Sep 02, 2011
